C o m p e t i t i v e C o m p a r i s o n

DIGITAL PC 5100

 

DIGITAL™Compaq

HP

IBMDell
Features

PC 5100

Deskpro 4000

XA

PC 300PLOptiPlex GXi
Processors

166 Pentium® w/MMX

166 Pentium w/MMX

166 Pentium w/MMX

166 Pentium w/MMX

200 Pentium

 

200 Pentium w/MMX

200 Pentium w/MMX

200 Pentium w/MMX

200 Pentium w/MMX

166 Pentium w/MMX

 

233 Pentium w/MMX

233 Pentium w/MMX

233 Pentium w/MMX

233 Pentium w/MMX

200 Pentium w/MMX

 

 

 

 

 

233 Pentium w/MMX

Chip set

Intel 430TX

VIA Apollo

Intel 430HX

Intel 430HX

Intel 430HX

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enclosure

Low-profile (3x4)

Desktop (5x4)

Desktop (4x4)

Desktop (4x4)

Slim (3x3)

 

Short-tower (5x6)

Mini-tower (7x5)

Mini-tower (6x6)

Mini-tower (6x6)

Desktop (5x5)

 

 

 

 

 

Mini-tower (7x6)

Standard

S3™

S3

Matrox Millennium

Matrox

S3 Trio

graphics

ViRGE/GX

ViRGE/GX

card

Mystique 220

64V/GX

Video RAM std.

2MB SGRAM

2MB SGRAM

2MB WRAM

2MB SGRAM

2MB EDO DRAM

Video RAM max.

4MB SGRAM

4MB SGRAM

8MB WRAM

4MB SGRAM

2MB EDO DRAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maximum memory

256MB

384MB

192MB

384MB

512MB ECC

 

 

 

 

 

EDO DRAM

Memory type

SDRAM DIMMs

SDRAM DIMMs

EDO DRAM SIMMs

SDRAM DIMMs

EDO DRAM DIMMs

Cache standard/

512KB/512KB

512KB/1MB

512KB/512KB

512KB/512KB

256KB/512KB

maximum

 

 

 

 

 

Cache type

Pipeline-burst

Pipeline-burst

Pipeline-burst

Pipeline-burst

Pipeline-burst

USB port

2 ports

2 ports

2 ports

2 ports

2 ports

CD-ROM

24x on select

16x on select

8x on select

24x on select

12x/24x

 

models

models

models

models

 

Audio

16-bit audio

On CD

16-bit audio

16-bit audio

Sound Blaster®

 

(stereo)

models

on CD models

on CD models

Pro-compatible

 

 

 

 

 

(all models)

Standard hard disk

EIDE: 2.1GB, 3.2GB,

EIDE: 2.4GB,

EIDE: 1.6GB,

EIDE: 1.6GB,

EIDE: 2.5GB

configurations

4.0GB

3.2GB

2.5GB

2.5GB

4.2GB

Disk controller

Ultra DMA/33

Ultra DMA/33

EIDE DMA mode2

EIDE DMA mode2

EIDE DMA mode2

 

 

 

 

Ultra-Wide SCSI:

Ultra-Wide SCSI:

 

 

 

 

2.1GB, 4.3GB

2.0GB, 4.0GB

Networking

10Base-T/100Base-TX

10/100 Ethernet

10/100Base-T

10/100Base-T

3Com

 

with Autosensing

with Autosensing

 

 

10/100 Ethernet

Desktop

ClientWORKS™

Intelligent

HP TopTOOLS

NetFinity

Dell Inspector

management

(local & remote

Manageability

(local DMI viewer)

(local & remote

(local DMI viewer)

 

DMI viewer)

(local DMI viewer)

 

DMI viewer)

 

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