Dell DCTA manual System Features, Getting Started With Your System

System Features

The major hardware and software features of your system include:

•One of the following processors:

–Intel® Pentium® D processor, E6000 sequence.

–Intel Celeron® D, 300 sequence.

–Intel Pentium 4, 600 sequence.

All processors are Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T) capable.

NOTE: Use the System Setup program to view processor information. See the Hardware Owner’s Manual.

•A minimum of 512 MB of 533- or 667- (when available) MHz DDR II SDRAM memory, upgradable to a maximum of 4 GB DDR II SDRAM memory by installing 512-MB or 1-GB unbuffered ECC memory modules in the four memory module sockets on the system board; single or dual rank.

•Support for the following internal hard-drive (non–hot-plug) configurations:

–Up to two internal 3.5-inch SATA hard drives with an integrated SATA controller or

–Up to two internal 3.5-inch Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives with a SAS controller card

•One 3.5-inch peripheral drive bay for the optional diskette drive, and two 5.25-inch bays for the following supported drives: CD, DVD, combination CD-RW/DVD, or tape backup device.

NOTE: DVD devices are data only.

•Support for the following disk volume types: simple, spanned, stripped (RAID 0), and mirrored (RAID 1).

•Support for USB 2.0.

•A chassis intrusion alert.

The system board includes the following integrated features:

•Dual-channel IDE controller that supports up to two supported devices including IDE CD, DVD, CDRW/DVD combination drive, and an IDE tape backup device.

NOTE: DVD devices are data only.

•SATA controller that supports up to two cabled SATA hard drives.

•Two 32-bit, 33-MHz I/O expansion card slots, one x1 lane-width PCIe expansion slot, one x4 lane- width PCIe expansion slot, and one x8 lane-width PCIe expansion slot.

•An integrated VGA-compatible video subsystem with an ATI ES1000, 33-MHz PCI video controller. This video subsystem contains 16 MB of graphics memory with support for 2D graphics. Maximum resolution is 1600x1200 with 65,536 colors; true-color graphics are supported in the following resolutions: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, and 1280 x 1024.

NOTE: Your system supports integrated video only.

Getting Started With Your System

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