The Energy Star-compliant OptiPlex 745 is extremely energy efficient. With the new Energy Smart configuration, OptiPlex default power settings exceed the worldwide mutually recognized Energy Star standard, which means that each desktop is designed to further reduce power consumption and energy costs, right out of the box. This high level of power management, combined with Power Factor Correcting power supplies, flat panel displays, Intel Core™2 Duo processors and thermally efficient BTX chassis designs, means that the OptiPlex 745 uses up to 70% less power than previous generations of OptiPlex desktops¹, so it helps you conserve your resources and the earth"s resources at the same time.

 

OptiPlex remote control solutions offer simple central management of your business assets. Dell"s system management tools address IT issues and can give you comprehensive control over the computing environment. Dell Client Manager Standard (DCM) (available 10/06) is a no-charge console download that gives IT administrators a range of remote management capabilities - including hardware discovery and inventory, configuration control and BIOS patch management - that help them streamline remote management of Dell client assets and reduce desk-side visits.

 

Your data and your assets are the foundation of your business. Dell understands that protecting these things from vulnerability in a cost-effective way is one of the most important elements of managing your IT environment. The OptiPlex 745 has been designed with this in mind. Not only does the 745 offer a wide variety of cost-effective security software solutions, but it is also designed to protect your information with physical security options, data encryption options, as well as user-authentication and network security technologies.

 

The 745 offers multi-factor authentication and data encryption using Wave EMBASSY^®  software in combination with TPM 1.2-compatible safeguards like biometric and smart card readers to protect your business assets against both internal and external threats.

Available DIMM Slots:

Four Memory slots offering up to 4GB²

^{*Ultra Small Factor has two DIMM Slots offering up to 4GB2}

Memory Bandwidth:

800MHz - 12.8 GB/s with dual channel

^{*Ultra Small Factor does not support 800MHz}

667MHz - 10.7 GB/s with dual channel

533MHz - 8.5 GB/s with dual channel

 

Performance Professional User:

4GB or more for Intensive simultaneous business applications with headroom for future OS/Applications

 

Mainstream User:

2GB or more is recommended for business users running multiple simultaneous office applications

SATA 3.0Gb/s

SATA 3.0 provides 2X the bandwidth of SATA with a transfer rate of 3.0Gb/s.

Benefits of the SATA II drives offered on the OptiPlex 745 is that they enable:

Password protection feature on the HDD. A password must be entered before the HDD can be accessed and the system boots. This provides an extra layer of data security. Faster, Improved data integrity, and Improved scalability

Capacities up to 250GB³⁴