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Specifications

Dell™ Dimension™ C521 Service Manual

Microprocessor

Microprocessor type

AMD™ Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processor

 

AMD Athlon 64

 

AMD Sempron™

 

 

Internal L2 cache

up to 1 MB per core

 

up to 256 KB for Sempron

 

 

 

 

Memory

 

 

 

Type

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

 

SDRAM

 

 

Memory connectors

four

 

 

Memory modules supported

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

 

 

Minimum memory

256 MB

 

 

Maximum memory

4 GB

 

 

 

 

Computer Information

 

 

 

Chipset

nVidia GeForce 6150LE

 

 

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 9.0c Shader Model

 

3.0 Graphics Processing Unit) or PCI Express x16

 

graphics card

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

 

Type

Sigma Tel 9227 CODEC (7.1 Channel Audio)

 

 

 

 

Controllers

 

 

 

Drives

two SATA controllers supporting two devices

 

 

Expansion Bus

 

 

 

Bus type

PCI 2.3

 

PCI Express 1.0A

 

SATA 1.0A and 2.0

 

USB 2.0

 

 

Bus speed

PCI: 133 MB/s

 

PCI Express x16: 80 Gbps bidirectional speed

 

PCI Express x1: 2.5 Gbps

 

SATA: 1.5 Gbps and 3.0 Gbps

 

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

 

Mbps low speed

 

 

Cards

 

 

 

PCI

 

 

 

connectors

one

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