Desktop workstations like HP?s Z230 Tower are designed for work, not play. This one is powered by the Haswell version of Intel?s Xeon processor, which can address more memory and has wider memory pipelines than Intel?s consumer-oriented Core processors. The sample HP sent for review has a dedicated graphics processor that?s optimized for 3D rendering and CAD operations. It?s not gamer sexy, and you pay heavily for having the company assemble the components for you, but it is well designed and imminently powerful and practical.
Our test-configuration Z230 ($2700 MSRP) came with a 3.4GHz quad-core Xeon e3-1245 v3 CPU and 16GB of DDR3/1600 ECC (error-correcting code) memory. Since only two of the four DIMM slots are occupied, you can easily double the Z230?s memory to 32GB.
ROBERT CARDINThe Z230 Tower has plenty of breathing space and more than enough drive bays, including one internal 2.5-inch bay, two internal 3.5-inch bays (one of which is occupied by a 1TB, 10,000-rpm WD Velociraptor hard drive mounted in a 2.5-inch adapter), one slim external optical-drive bay (occupied by a DVD burner), and two external 5.25-inch half-height bays (these make a convenient handle when vacant).
The tower configuration sports two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports in front. One of the USB 2.0 ports is always on for charging mobile devices. The front panel also has microphone and headphone jacks. The back has two additional USB 3.0 ports, four more USB 2.0 ports, and a single-link DVI port, along with gigabit ethernet, audio in/out, and microphone jacks. Support for legacy devices comes in the form of two PS/2 ports and one serial port.
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