Dell E521 specifications Specifications

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Specifications

Dell™ Dimension™ E521 Service Manual

Processor

Processor type

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor

 

AMD Athlon 64 processor

 

AMD Sempron™ processor

 

 

Level 2 (L2) cache

Up to 1 MB per core

 

Up to 256 KB for Sempron processors

 

 

Memory

 

 

 

Type

533-MHz, 667-MHz, 800-MHz (when available) DDR2

 

SDRAM

 

 

Memory connectors

four

 

 

Memory capacities

256 MB, 512 MB, or 1 GB non-ECC

 

 

Maximum memory

4 GB

 

NOTE: See Addressing Memory With 4-GB

 

Configurations to verify the amount of memory

 

available to the operating system.

 

 

 

 

Computer Information

 

 

 

Chipset

Nvidia GeForce 6150LE

 

 

RAID Support

RAID 1 (Mirroring)

 

 

DMA channels

eight

 

 

Interrupt levels

24

 

 

BIOS chip (NVRAM)

4 Mb

 

 

NIC

Integrated network interface capable of 10/100

 

communication

 

 

 

 

Video

 

Type

Nvidia integrated video (DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0

 

Graphics Processing Unit) or optional PCI Express x16

 

graphics card

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

 

Type

Sigmatel 9227 CODEC (7.1 Channel audio)

 

 

 

 

Expansion Bus

 

 

 

Bus type

PCI 2.3

 

PCI Express 1.0A

 

SATA 1.0 and 2.0

 

USB 2.0

 

 

Bus speed

PCI: 133 MB/s

 

PCI Express:

 

x1 slot bidirectional speed - 500 MB/s

 

x16 slot bidirectional speed - 8 GB/s

 

SATA: 1.5 Gbps and 3.0 Gbps

 

USB: 480 Mbps high speed, 12 Mbps full speed, 1.2

 

Mbps low speed

 

 

PCI

 

 

 

connectors

two

 

 

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