ENERGY STAR® is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed decisions. ENERGY STAR is the simple choice for energy efficiency, making it easy for consumers and businesses to purchase products that save them money and protect the environment. ENERGY STAR The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) is a global ecolabel for the IT sector. The EPEAT program provides independent verification of manufacturers’ claims and the EPEAT online Registry lists sustainable products from a broader range of manufacturers than any comparable ecolabel. National governments, including the United States, and thousands of private and public institutional purchasers around the world use EPEAT as part of their sustainable procurement decisions. EPEAT helps purchasers, manufacturers, resellers, and others buy and sell environmentally preferable electronic products. EPEAT-registered products must meet environmental performance criteria that address: materials selection, supply chain greenhouse gas emissions reduction, design for circularity and product longevity, energy conservation, end-of-life management and corporate performance. Bronze-rated products meet all of the required criteria in their category. Silver-rated products meet all of the required criteria and at least 50% of the optional criteria, while Gold-rated products meet all of the required criteria and at least 75% of the optional criteria. EPEAT Gold Intel® Xeon® processors deliver cloud computing, real-time analytics, processing for your mission-critical business, and big data insights. Improve data center efficiency and reliability to handle any workload. Intel Xeon E5 DELL Precision T3600, 2.8 GHz, Intel® Xeon® E5 Family, 4 GB, 250 GB, DVD±RW, Windows 7 Professional DELL Precision T3600. Processor frequency: 2.8 GHz, Processor family: Intel® Xeon® E5 Family, Processor model: E5-1603. Internal memory: 4 GB, Internal memory type: DDR3-SDRAM, Memory clock speed: 1333 MHz. Total storage capacity: 250 GB, Storage media: HDD, Optical drive type: DVD±RW. Discrete graphics card model: AMD FirePro 2270. Operating system installed: Windows 7 Professional, Operating system architecture: 64-bit. Power supply: 425 W. Chassis type: Tower. Product type: Workstation As far as enterprise-class workstations go, we're at the point now where there are fundamentally two major competitors: an entrenched HP, and a very hungry Dell. We've had a couple of HP workstations in for review already (and more on the way), but ... Where build and design are concerned, Dell's Precision T3600 (along with the T5600 and T7600) are like night and day compared to last year's line. The Precision T1600 wasn't a bad desktop, but the revised design here is preferable in every conceivable way...