Dell’s OptiPlex 745, the top of the company’s business PC line, pairs Intel’s Q965 chipset with your choice of Celeron, Pentium D or cutting-edge Core 2 Duo processors. Scheduled for a 15-month life cycle, the 745 is available in four sizes: a conventional mini-tower, the desktop chassis of our review unit, a small form factor slim-line, and an ultra-small form factor meant to attach to the back of an LCD monitor. The latter two are exclusive to the 745 model.

The Dell OptiPlex 745 is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of business users. The energy-efficient and fully customizable 745 can scale to suit your business and is supported by a full set of relevant features and technologies. Customized deployment, remote management and flexible security features can help you simplify your operations and increase your productivity while still providing great value. The OptiPlex 745 is the perfect business system to give you the features you need at the price you want.

Review By Pcauthority

The replacement 745 series brings with it many enhancements, but most obvious is compatibility with new technologies. The Intel 945G chipset-based GX620s were designed for Pentium D processors at best. The new 745 series is Intel 965-based and supports both Core 2 and Vista (as well as Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors). The 765 series also provides tight-integration with Ati X1300 graphics adapters (not just integrated Intel graphics) which gives more choice between DVI and VGA connections – for instance, previously someone might be limited to a single D-Sub-based monitor. Now they can simply use two monitors with two DVI connectors if required.

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Review By pcpro

The OptiPlex 745 is no exception. At its heart, the E6600 has a core speed of 2.4GHz, scoring a huge 1.36 in our benchmarks thanks partly to the 1GB of 667MHz RAM. In terms of everyday business use, this means the OptiPlex has an excess of power that most users are unlikely to use. It’s more than powerful enough for photo and high-definition film-editing work, let alone email and Word documents. But while it’s a sledgehammer to crack a nut in most cases, if you need the power it’s impressive, particularly when you consider the size of the case.

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Review By Pcmag

The 745′s Core 2 Duo processor, Radeon X1300 graphics, fast DDR2-667 memory, and speedy 10,000-rpm drive together achieved commendable SYSmark 2004 SE benchmark-test results: an excellent score of 364 on the Internet Content Creation test and a good score of 260 on the Office Productivity test. The system wins both categories when compared with other business systems in this space, so it’s the one to shoot for whether you’re in a time-sensitive business or just have demanding computing needs and really want to keep the system for more than a couple of years.

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Review By Hardwarecentral

Dell offers dependable, customer-driven chassis designs with the OptiPlex 745, delivering reliability and ease of access in a variety of form factors that can meet your needs. Choose between a mini-tower, desktop, small form factor and ultra-small form factor for space-constrained environments. With every shape of chassis, you can take advantage of single-latch internal access, front-panel diagnostic and network LEDs and the ventilation and cooling benefits of Dell’s recent BTX chassis design.

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Review By Dell

Pressing a latch pops the 4.5 by 15.7 by 13.9-inch desktop’s top (well, side, since it’s designed to stand vertically), revealing a crowded but not cluttered interior. The Core 2 Duo processor is, as usual, invisible under a hefty heat sink and the hood of a cooling fan — the last, Dell notes, positioned to measure ambient as well as CPU temperature in case the 745 sees use in a warm environment such as a factory floor. The 280-watt power supply has a fan of its own, but we noticed neither — the PC was commendably quiet in day-to-day operation.

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