
Certified Workstation Performance: Dell Precision T3500
Professionals seeking certified performance on a range of workstation-class applications geared toward advanced analysis, engineering and design.
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Powerful Performance
An ideal combination of price and performance, the single-socket Dell™ Precision™ T3500 is designed to provide productivity and scalability gains well beyond the range of standard business desktop systems.The T3500 features the latest generation of Intel® Xeon™ architecture for fast, energy-efficient performance on a variety of single-socket workstation applications.
The T3500 supports up to 24 GB* of system memory (including both DDR3 ECC and non-ECC memory), allowing for superior levels of application performance and data manipulation.

Superior Graphics
Offering two PCIe x16 slots as well as ample power for its supported graphics cards, the Dell™ Precision™ T3500 works quickly to bring your design, animation, imaging or engineering projects to life.Enjoy peak performance from high-end graphics cards: The T3500 can be equipped with a range of workstation-class graphics options from ATI® and NVIDIA®.
The T3500 offers tested or certified graphics drivers to help ensure superb performance with excellent reliability.

Turbo-Charged and ISV Tested
Intel® Turbo Mode (designed to shift processor performance into a higher speed without consequences to system heat) and direct cache access help accelerate both single- and multi-threaded applications.Dell's advanced thermal engineering and efficient processor heat sinks help to sustain Turbo Mode even under extended periods of activity.
Dell™ partners with leading ISVs to certify system compatibility, ensuring that the certified workstation applications you load onto the T3500 will run gracefully right out of the box.

Efficient Design
The Dell™ Precision™ T3500 offers a high level of energy efficiency and conforms to major worldwide energy standards, including ENERGY STAR® and EPEAT* registered configurations.The new generation of Intel® Xeon® technology affords the T3500 additional levels of energy efficiency, including the individual management of processor-core clock speeds (using the processor's internal power-control unit) and the ability to boost performance using Intel® TurboMode.
All new Dell™ Precision™ tower workstations feature 85 percent efficient, wide-ranging power supplies for environmentally conscientious computing that doesn't sacrifice on performance.
Video Card
- Support for 2 PCI Express x16 Gen 2 graphics cards up to 150 watts (total) including:
High End 3D:
NVIDIA Quadro® 5000
NVIDIA Quadro 4000
Mid-range 3D:
AMD FirePro V7900
AMD FirePro V5900
NVIDIA Quadro® 2000
Entry 3D:
ATI FirePro™ V4800
NVIDIA Quadro® 600
Professional 2D:
NVIDIA Quadro® NVS 420 quad monitor card
NVIDIA Quadro® NVS 295
ATI FireMV™ V2260
All graphics cards support dual monitor configurations.
Security
- Software
Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services (up to 3 year subscription)
Trusted Platform Module 1.2 (TPM 1.2)
Chassis intrusion switch
Setup/BIOS Password
I/O Interface Security
Hardware
Kensington Lock slot
Padlock ring
Internal front panel chassis lock
Chipset
- Intel® X58 chipset
Chassis
- Dimensions :
(WxHxD) 6.8" x 17.6" x 18.4" (17.2cm x 44.7cm x 46.8cm)
Bays:
Two internal 3.5" HDD bays
Two external 5.25" optical bays
One external 3.5" flex bay for media card reader or third (SATA) HDD
Slots:
All full length except as noted.
Two PCI-e x8 slot wired as x4 (one half-length)
Two PCI-e x16 Gen 2 graphics slots
Two PCI slots (both half length)
Standard I/O Ports:
(11) USB 2.0 (two on front panel, six on back panel, three internal (UDOC) on motherboard)
(1) eSATA (rear)
(1) serial
(1) parallel
(2) PS/2
(1) RJ-45
Stereo line-in and headphone line-out on back panel
Microphone and headphone connector on front panel
IEEE 1394a ports are provided with optional 1394 PCI-e card
Sound Card
- Integrated High Definition Audio, 24 bit analog-to-digital; 24-bit digital-to-analog stereo conversion
Power
- 525 watt Wide Ranging 88% (80 Plus® Silver Certified) Efficient Power Factor Correcting (PFC) power supply
525 watt Active Power Factor Correcting (PFC) power supply
Regulatory
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- Escalation management through Dell’s Global Command Centers
Next, Dell ProSupport Options align to the way you use technology — rapidly responding to your needs, protecting your investment, your productivity and your sensitive data, and providing enhanced proactive support services to reduce the risk and complexity of managing your infrastructure.
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