Hi. I am buying a new Dell workstation with Windows 11 Pro for Workstation and sales guy put an option of ProDeploy so now Dell is asking me to choose from following options to put in my workstation in factory before they ship it out. I am going to use this workstation for my personal use only and not for any business. I am not tech savvy so I just want a clean & simple Win-11 without any Dell junk. I will load all my apps & Antivirus & Anti malware etc. myself. They are also recommending not to order Win-11 with new 22H2 update because they say it has problems & they are working with Microsoft for that. Here is what they sent me in email. You may choose avail either or all of the below services as part of Pro Deployment offering: Load a generic/ready Image Load an Image: WIM; Ghost; ISO; or ImageAssist. Custom BIOS configuration BIOS Logo Flash - Please provide us with the logo preferably in black background in BMP format (256 color) with a resolution of 640 x 480 upto 2 mb size. Asset Label/Tagging – samples below. Standard Asset Report Onsite Installation Once the scope is confirmed, we will set-up the project in TechDirect for your review and submission. Testing period: 7 business days for project set-up and testing at factory as per project scope in TechDirect. Upon successful testing, we will send you the screenshots of the label/ BIOS for your perusal. The orders will be released for production upon your approval. Thanks again.
Scary company. Even before shipping they already acknowledge problems with their system and the newest version of the world's most popular operating system. Windows 11 runs on several of our machines but hubby built all of them himself. You should probably inquire about the details of the issues because at some point you want to install all the security patches and updates and if Dell says this causes issues with their systems what are you gonna do? How we all love a middle man that instead of adding value to an equation makes a product even more complex, but I guess that's how they try to appear to stay relevant.
What is the CPU? Also, why buy a "workstation"? IMO most typical use cases will run much quicker on a "mainstream" CPU such as 12900K by Intel or 7950X by AMD (such as in the Dell Dimension lines). You need a very good justification to spend the extra $ for a highly-threaded "workstation" chip, which until next year's models will have much slower single-threaded performance than the "high-end mainstream" chips I listed above.
Can't agree more. I have used all, workstation CPUs, even server CPUs, and general consumer CPUs. All worked fine for all sorts of trading and research related tasks but in the end that PC and CPU with the highest clock speed worked best for me because it chewed through algorithms and backtests the fastest. Safety and consistency is not determined by the choice of pc or cpu but by policy decisions towards backups and data storage.
Send your questions to the tech people who clear your trades. They know the platform, what it requires.
I completely agree with what you guys are saying & I wish I had the knowledge of building my own system. Let me clear up why I made the choice of Dell 5820 Workstation. I run 12 Monitors on their 10 year old workstation & none of other models of Dell will let me do that. I need 3 x Quadro GPUs for that & this board has Full Length x16 slots for them. I am not tech savvy so I have to go for what is available to me & most important is being able to run 8 to 12 Monitors ) CPU is Xeon W-2235 ( 3.8 GHz, 6 Cores, 12 Threads ) I got their cheaper Workstation 3660 which has only One X16 & two X4 slots & they shoved 2nd qudro GPU in a end cut out X4 slot & I ran into resolution problems & returned it. My question is what should I choose from the jar gain they have given me above. Also does the Win-11 update 22H2 have serious problems as they are advising me not to go for it ? Am I going to miss any substantial features they have added ?
I think they are referring to the newest update to Win 11, not the current version. I have a notice it is available, but always hold off on those updates to see how many and what problems are caused by the update.
That's your choice. Ordinarily, one would let the system install the updates when they become available. Never had an issue with this in the past 10 years, regardless of windows version. I can't even remember when I ever had a blue screen of death or when hardware did not work. But I also spend lots of time on research and quality components every few years when I upgrade my hardware system.