Fujitsu Celsius W530 Review

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Desktop workstations can be both big and expensive, but not so the Fujitsu Celsius W530, a compact and affordable entry-level workstation designed to bridge the gap between high-end PCs and much more expensive professional models.Okay, so it's only got one processor, but that's reflected in the £1,430 recommended price (around $2,160, AU$2,680), and we found it selling for a lot less than that online. Moreover, with a more than capable Nvidia Quadro graphics card as standard, the Celsius comes equipped to handle not just CAD/CAM but advanced video editing, basic animation work and a lot more besides.Compact and well-designedAbout the same size as the average desk-side PC (6.9 x 16.5 x 15.6-inches, or 175 x 419 x 395mm), the Celsius chassis doesn't quite match the build quality of Dell's Precision range, but is nonetheless nicely laid out and well put together. Access is good, as well, with a fully removable side panel and lots of room inside, not least because of the diminutive Micro-ATX motherboard, which takes up hardly any space at all.Power comes from a standard 300 Watt supply with cooling handled by the fan in the PSU plus another fan mounted low down at the front of the casing. Most of the airflow from this goes across the motherboard, but there's also a metal baffle to direct some of it down to the storage bays in the bottom of the chassis. The graphics card also has a fan but, despite a tally of three altogether, the Celsius proved remarkably quiet even when pushed hard. Fujitsu calls it whisper quiet and, at around 16dB, we tend to agree.There's just the one processor socket on the motherboard able to accommodate either an Intel Core i7 or Xeon E3-1200 v3 processor. Fujitsu can equip the W530 with either, the review system shipping with a 3.6GHz Xeon E3-1271 v3 which is based on the latest Haswell architecture, offering up four processing cores or eight threads using Intel's Hyper-Threading technology.
 Fujitsu Celsius W530 Review @ Techradar