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Perfected to your vision.

Expand your ideas with the Precision 5820 Tower. Featuring high performance in a new innovative, versatile compact design.

Processor

Intel® Xeon® Processor W Family CPUs (Skylake-W) with up to 10 cores per processor and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions, Intel® Trusted Execution Technology, Intel® AES New instructions, Optimized Intel® Turbo Boost and optional Intel® vPro™ technology

Operating System

Windows 11 Pro
Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v7.3 with 3 YR RHN
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v7.3 with 1 YR RHN
Ubuntu Linux 16.04,FI,WW

Video Card

Support for 2 PCI Express® x16 Gen 3 graphics card2 - up to 600W with maximum of up to 2 x 300W double width graphics cards.

High end 3D cards:
Radeon™ Pro WX 9100
Radeon™ Pro SSG (future)
NVIDIA® Quadro® GP100
NVIDIA® Quadro® P6000
NVIDIA® Quadro® P5000

Mid-range 3D cards:
Radeon™ Pro WX 7100
Radeon™ Pro WX 5100
Radeon™ Pro WX 4100
NVIDIA® Quadro® P4000
NVIDIA® Quadro® P2000

Entry 3D cards:
Radeon™ Pro WX 3100
Radeon™ Pro WX 2100
NVIDIA® Quadro® P1000
NVIDIA® Quadro® P600
NVIDIA® Quadro® P400

Professional 2D cards:
NVIDIA® NVS 310
NVIDIA® NVS 315

Memory*

Four channel memory up to 256GB 2666MHz DDR4 ECC memory. 8 DIMM slots

Note: Memory speed is dependent on specific Intel® Xeon Processor W Family processor installed.

Storage

Front accessible FlexBays support up to 4 x 2.5”/3.5” SATA HDD/SSDs and up to 6 x 2.5” and 5 x 3.5” drives with 5.25” bay populated.
Up to 2 front accessible (hot plug) M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs are supported in FlexBays on enabled PCIe chassis with integrated Intel® controller.
NVMe RAID 0,1 option (Intel® RSTe vROC). Dell M.2 carrier with PCIe SSD for PCIe FlexBay available
as customer kit.
Up to 4 x M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs via 1 x Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad x16 card. NVMe RAID 0,1,10 option (Intel® RSTe vROC).
M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs
Up to 4 x 1TB drives on 1 Dell Precision Ultra-Speed Drive Quad x16 cards.
Front FlexBay M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs
Up to 2 x 1TB drives
2.5” SATA SSD
Up to 6 x 1TB drives
2.5” SAS SSD
Up to 6 x 800GB drives
3.5” SAS 7200 RPM 12Gb/s
Up to 5 x 4TB
2.5” SAS 10K RPM 12Gb/s
Up to 6 x 1.8TB
2.5” SAS 15K RPM 12Gb/s
Up to 6 x 900GB
2.5” Self Encrypting Drives
512GB 2.5” SED (OPAL/ FIPS (140-2) HDD
M.2 PCIe SED SSD

Ports

Front
2 USB 3.1 Type A
2 USB 3.1 Type C
1 Universal Headphone Jack
Up to 2 (future 4) PCIe slots in PCIe enabled chassis for M.2 and U.2 (future) PCIe SSDs

Internal
1 USB 2.0
1 USB 2.0 header (requires 3rd party splitter cable to support USB 2.0 Type A ports)
8 SATA @6Gb/s plus 1 SATA for optical

Rear
6 USB 3.1 Type A
1 Serial
1 RJ45 Network
2 PS2
1 Audio Line out
1 Audio Line in/Microphone

Slots

All slots PCIe Gen 3
2 PCIe x16
1 PCIe x16 wired as x8
1 PCie x16 wired as x4
1 PCIe x16 wired as x1
1 PCI 32/33

Dimensions & Weight

Height: 16.45'' (417.9 mm) x Width: 6.94'' (176.5 mm) x Depth: 20.4'' (518.3 mm) x Starting weight: 32 lb (15.9kg)

Chassis

Bays: (2) FlexBays and (1) 5.25” FlexBay (can support 1 x 3.5” or 2 x 2.5” HDD/SSD drives as factory option or customer kit)
(1) Slimline optical bay; (1) SD slot UHS ll Class 3 with read only support (SW enabled)
Available PCIe chassis with PCIe FlexBays supporting M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs and U.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs. PCIe FlexBay customer kit available.

Regulatory

Energy Star® configurations available including 80 PLUS® registered Gold power supplies; EPEAT® registered (see epeat.net for specific registration rating/status by country); China CECP; GS Mark. For a complete listing of declarations & certifications, see Dell’s regulatory & compliance homepage at dell.com/regulatory_compliance

Product Safety and Environmental Datasheets 
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page 
Dell and the Environment

Drivers, Manuals & Support

Dell Support

From drivers and manuals to diagnostic tools and replacement parts, Dell Product Support has you covered!

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