Quote Originally Posted by pisquee View Post
I've switched all our work PCs to older Dell Precision T5500 - think we have 13 of them now. They can be dual Xeon CPUs - our best ones (dedicated to design/printing) have dual 6 core 3GHz processors, and 144GB RAM. The machines for more admin duty are single CPU with more normal levels of RAM!
Some of them I've built from parts scavenged from Ebay, others I've bought ready built cheap on Ebay.
There are advantages of having all the machines the same, in terms of repair/servicing/swapping parts etc

For Windows 11 - They aren't approved CPUs, and don't have TPM 2.0 (only 1.2) but they have MS support through 2025, and I am currently testing Win 11 on 2 of our laptops which I've hacked 11 onto, and they're working fine, so I will be trying one of the 5500 next week.
This is why I’ve tried to standardise to having Dell systems. All the office PC’s are Optiplex 7xxx systems, but this is my first look into Precision/Workstation systems.