Dell Precision T5500 Workstation Overview

[@IMCDundee]

I have one of these,2x 5680 Xeons,the upgraded heat sinks, 24GB ram HD7870 & an SSD,It work fine with an Asus U3S6 card,so it now has USB3 and Sata 6GB,next I may add a NVME boot drive & pcie adaptor,and better video card if one comes my way.Keep up the good work! Blu Ray works fine

[@robdunning6285]

Great piece of kit. Very good at running multiple opsys with VirtualBox and unlike the later T3600 does not require a PERC adapter to run multiple drives in Raid modes.

[@jwoolery99]

I absolutely love this era of Precision towers. And other than the T7500 this is one of the best ones. So upgradable, still rather capable for compute tasks and virtualization, server duties, etc. Very versatile. Yeah the T3600 is a great unit unless you needed RAID, or more than 8 cores 16 threads on one CPU lol.

[@RivloGruby]

Nice video! I have the T5500. This is powerful unit! I think i will make the overview of this workstation for my Polish viewers. Many of young people don't know what is a workstation or server like this

[@sappert4939]

I have one of these running Linux Fedora 33 with no issues at all - Awesome machines - Thank you for your review

[@intrepide1970]

i couldn't make linux work on mine...

[@sappert4939]

@@intrepide1970 odd Mine now dual boots windows 10 and fedora 33 . Dual processor and 36gb ram, I also have other versions of Linux running as virtual machines within Fedora 33 with no issues.

[@intrepide1970]

@@sappert4939 thé bios would not accept it

[@sappert4939]

@@intrepide1970 are you still running BIOS A02 .. The current bios for these machines is A18 . If you go to the Dell site and put in your service tag it will lead you to a bios update link . You can update it by creating a bootable USB drive and flashing the bios.. I had to update mine to accept the dual upgraded Xeon processors that I am running

[@sappert4939]

@@intrepide1970 I am running dual Xeon 5650 processors and 36 GB of pc3-8500R ram in 9 X 4gb sticks . 12gb is on the daughter card with the extra processor. Also have WiFi N and Bluetooth card - USB 3 card and Hdmi graphics.. These boxes are fantastic for upgrading

[@DaRyteJuan]

Pretty cool watching people getting use outta this formerly top-end gear. I just bought my dad a T1700 4790 (4th gen i7) w/16GB for $300 (including tax & shipping) to replace his even older Lenovo Core i3 2130 (2nd gen)with 4GB. The T1700 was actually a bit cheaper than a lot of the OptiPlex 9020s I was seeing. Together with his new Samsung EVO 870 1TB, it’s gonna be fine. He just surfs the web, etc. No gaming. Great detail on this video.

[@ClockworkAlex]

Did u have any problems installing Windows 10 on T5500 ?? Thank's.

[@TheGlassic]

hi! nice video! i m buying one of these today in 2nd hand, since is better than my i5 650, can i use normal ddr3 ram in this?

[@aaryapatel65]

I won't to Install OS with Secure boot Or GPT form to win 10 it's will install or Not with UEFI boot or Secure boot ? Plz rply me I will install 64GB RAM

[@Andrew-ze6kq]

I haven't watched the whole video, (because I know so little on computer technology and hardware) but I do have this, and it once belonged to my dad. But I want to know, does it play Bluray discs?

[@jwoolery99]

If I’m not mistaken these did not originally ship with Blu-Ray drives. They can be put in one of these machines if you wanted to upgrade one with a blu-ray drive.

[@intrepide1970]

i have one and need to upgrade it for cubase. I have to install a new graphic card to connect it to a 32 inches screen which resolution is 3440 x 1440. So i need a card thta will work and not make any noise . Any ideas ?

[@sappert4939]

I am running a 1.5 GB Nvidia card on a 43 inch display superb quality. Works well with Linux and Windows.. (actually better with Linux if anything)

[@intrepide1970]

@@sappert4939 which card is it ? my quadro 4000 cannot reach the resolution of this screen so i was planning to buy a gtx1070, but maybe i dont' knew so much !

[@Sp00ns655]

lol i run mine with 2 x5690s, 48 gb of ram, and a rtx 3070. Itll run any game u throw at it amazingly in 1440 p, vr or standard, and will ray trace. Love this pc, but i wish I could boot off of my nvme drive (i needed a pcie adapter). Also i swapped my psu to an 850 Watt model because the stock one kept crashing when I upgraded to my 3070. No crashes since. My guess is that because of the age it probably was more like 600 to 700 watts.

[@jwoolery99]

Not sure if you had seen the later video but i got mine upgraded to dual X5650 chips for $20. For the moment, because of the graphics card shortages going on everywhere, it just has an RX 560 in it. But even still it does a really great job.

[@truetothegame2928]

what is the best 4gb to 8gb gpu graphics card for this machine, i have a T5500, 36gb ram, ssd and now want a graphics card to smoothly run photo edit software on ,,,

[@tastycakes1339]

I’m a console gamer and don’t play pc, how do I plug this thing in a start it up?

[@zs4580]

Just curious, did the RX 560 you used here have the 6-pin connector?

[@jwoolery99]

Yes

[@stevef6392]

It's actually pretty interesting that Dell chose to go with a proprietary daughtercard for the 2nd CPU ...in 2010! I have an old dual-486 machine (made by VTech, of all people!) that has its processors set up in a similar way. First CPU is on the motherboard, 2nd one is on a daughtercard. For a 486, it was probably necessary as I don't believe the 486 natively supports SMP/cache coherency, so Vtech obviously had to rig up their own support logic. But a Nehalem Xeon would have all of that built in!

[@jwoolery99]

Probably because of the narrow, admittedly-shallow case spacing, they had to go about with the daughter-board method. Not ideal, but I bet that's how the taller case designs of the later T5600 came to be to accommodate the second processor and smarter use of space on the motherboard. Just a guess.

[@tapatap4231]

Can I pair GTX 1070 8gb ??? I have Xeon x5570 in this pc?

[@redone823]

There's another vid with 1080. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaDImKd3hbaneaM

[@andrespacino4985]

I just got an offer for this pc, very very cheap, I was thinking if this could work for gaming, even if I don't buy another graphics card, what do you think?

[@jwoolery99]

as a daily use computer, sure it would work great. Gaming, no, you have to upgrade the graphics, depending on what it already comes with when you get it.

[@andrespacino4985]

@@jwoolery99 it has 1 quad core xeon X5550, 1 quad core x1650, 12gb of ram, and an nvidia quadro fx580 512mb, all ddr3. What's your opinion? Maybe if I add a graphic card?. Thanks you a lot for answering!

[@smooshproductions8811]

@@andrespacino4985 you should add a graphic card

[@nellyfish9692]

I love my T5500, but I may need to retire it later this year as it looks like Windows 11 requires secure boot :(

[@jwoolery99]

Unfortunately, yes

[@The-Real-Skinny-Bob]

You can use rufus to disable that requirement probably.

[@chrisbufahl4996]

Possible to add USB 3.0?

[@jwoolery99]

Yep, using a PCIe expansion card, you can add USB 3 to one of these.

[@intrepide1970]

@@jwoolery99 which one did you get ?

[@tamasmihnea3537]

Is it very noisy?

[@jwoolery99]

Not really, at least my unit isn’t.

[@sappert4939]

@@jwoolery99 Mine is very quiet - comparable with modern machines

[@sappert4939]

Mine is very quiet. I did replace the system fans with silent ones though :)

[@dineshsingh-gb6un]

Puranahe pur he acha

[@musicmoviesandgames2004]

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