Dell 2300 Technical Specifications, Microprocessor, Video, System Information, Audio, Memory

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Technical Specifications

Dell™ Dimension™ 2300

Microprocessor	Video
System Information	Audio
Expansion Bus	Controls and Lights
Memory	Power
Drives	Physical
Ports and Connectors	Environmental
Microprocessor
Microprocessor type	Intel® Pentium® 4 that runs at 1.80 GHz internally
	and 400 MHz externally or Intel Celeron® that runs
	at 1.70 GHz internally and 400 MHz externally
	NOTE: Microprocessor offerings vary by country.
L1 cache	8 KB first-level (Pentium 4); 32 KB (16-KB data cache;
	16-KB instruction cache) (Celeron).
L2 cache	256- or 512-KB (displayed in the system setup
	program) pipelined-burst, eight-way set associative,
	write-back SRAM (Pentium 4);
	128-KB SRAM that resides in the processor’s core.
	The L2 cache runs at the processor’s internal clock
	speed (Celeron).
System Information
System chip set	Intel 845GL
DMA channels	seven
Interrupt levels	24 APIC mode
System BIOS chip	2 Mb (256 KB)
System clock	400-MHz data rate
Expansion Bus
Bus types	PCI
Bus speed	PCI: 33 MHz
PCI connectors	four
PCI connector size	120 pins
PCI connector data width	32 bits
(maximum)
Memory
Architecture	SDRAM
Memory connectors	two
Memory capacities	128-, 256-, or 512-MB
Minimum memory	128 MB
Maximum memory	1 GB
Memory type	PC133 SDRAM (non-ECC)
Drives
Externally accessible	two 5.25-inch bays
	one 3.5-inch bay
Internally accessible	one bay for 1-inch–high IDE hard drive
Ports and Connectors
Externally accessible:
Serial	9-pin connector; 16550C-compatible
Parallel	25-hole connector (bidirectional)
Video	15-hole connector
Keyboard	6-pin mini-DIN connector
Mouse	6-pin mini-DIN connector
USB	two front-panel and four back-panel USB 2.0–
	compliant connectors