No Xeon, no Dual Socket, no ECC.
Basically this is a warmed-over Optiplex and IMO doesn’t deserve to carry the Precision name. Get a 5xxx or 7xxx if you want a “real” workstation.
I was wondering the same thing. It has an RTX A4000 ($1k) and Core i9 ($500), so pretty good. Then they threw in 4800 MHz memory (bottleneck).
What’s the purpose of this? Not gaming. Not office env. Maybe CAD?
Probably. The higher core count on the 13900 will help with rendering while having decent single thread speed for creating a model and the A4000 is a capable card for apps like Solidworks, Creo, inventor, Would be a good multitask home/small office set up, not a dedicated engineering design machine.
The head-scratching over “Who’s this for?” is exactly why it’s on Woot and not being sold by a dedicated computer reseller or from Dell directly. This is for someone with a very specific use case.
What a deal, refurbished, no HDMI ,no wireless, no Bluetooth…uses are limited
This is why you see DisplayPort more often than HDMI. Plus you can get a DP > HDMI adapter.
I bought two of these with the i7-12700 and RTX A2000 cards that we swapped for the A4000 cards during the height of PC part shortages and GPU scalping and DDR5 was new. We used them for video editing, CAD, and other 3D work at a government agency—LAN, only, well spec’d for the price and not a glowing RGB mess. The componegs were validated for our software use-cases. They do not support XMP for RAM overclocking, but are super stable without the Xeon and ECC pricing.
They were terrific coming from old-as-heck HP Z240 workstations. My former staff still using them are happy with them almost 2 years later.
As for no ECC: DDR5 has on-chip “ECC” which is not true ECC but more than sufficient