Dell Precision 330 Workstation

A price tag of £2,749 excluding £49 for delivery is to be expected, largely because of the SCSI drive and RDRAM, not to mention the useful three-year, next business day, on-site warranty. Still, it's a bit steep. Yes, the Precision is faster than some of its 1.5GHz Pentium 4 rivals, but you certainly pay for the difference. Furthermore, real-world 2D performance, with an overall score of 3.49 in our benchmarks, still trails behind a 1.33GHz Athlon with DDR memory like the Evesham Axis 1.33 DDR (reviewed opposite).

Author: Dominic Bucknall