Precision 610

The Dell Precision WorkStation 610 resembles its little brother, the Dell Precision WorkStation 410. (For a review of the Precision 410, see "Dell Precision WorkStation 410," September 1998.) The Precision 610 I tested had two 400MHz Xeon Pentium II processors, four DIMM slots that support as much as 2GB of Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), two 9GB hard disks, an Adaptec ARO-1130CA RAID controller card (which plugs into a proprietary RAIDport III slot built into the motherboard) with a 16MB onboard memory cache, a 24X CD-ROM drive, integrated 16-bit stereo sound, and integrated Ultra 2/Wide SCSI support for data-transfer rates as fast as 80MB per second (MBps). The Precision 610's tool-less case gives you easy access to all these components.