HP xw4600 manual At a Glance

QuickSpecs

HP xw4600 Workstation

Overview

At A Glance

Choice of Operating Systems:

Microsoft Vista™ Business 32 or 64

Microsoft Windows Vista™ Business 32-bit downgrade to Microsoft Windows XP Professional (expected available until August 2008)

Microsoft Windows Vista™ Business 64-bit downgrade to Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 (expected available until August 2008)

Microsoft Windows® XP Professional SP2 32-Bit (expected available until January 2008)

Preloaded: Red Hat Enterprise Linux® WS 4 (64-bit version)

HP Linux Installer Kit (see http://www.hp.com/workstations/software/linux) Red Flag Linux v5 *

For detailed OS/hardware support information for Linux, see: http://www.hp.com/support/linux_hardware_matrix

Intel Core™ 2 Extreme processor with Intel® 64 Architecture

Quad-Core

1333 MHz Front Side Bus

8 MB L2 cache (2x4 MB shared)

Virtualization Technology

Intel Core™ 2 Quad-Core processor with Intel® 64 Architecture

Quad-Core

1066 MHz Front Side Bus

8 MB L2 cache (2x4 MB shared)

Virtualization Technology available with most processor options. Intel Core™ 2 Duo processor with Intel® 64 Architecture

Dual-Core

800 or 1333 MHz Front Side Bus

2 or 4 MB shared L2 cache

Virtualization Technology

Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor with Intel® 64 Architecture

Dual-core

800 MHz Front Side Bus

1 MB dedicated L2 cache Intel X38 Express chipset Integrated HP Gbit LAN by Broadcom

1333, 1066 or 800 MHz processor front side bus support Convertible and tool-less minitower chassis

4 PCI Express /3 PCI slots

Dual channel ECC DDR2 memory at 667 or 800 MHz

Six channel SATA Controller with RAID** (Factory integrated RAID is Microsoft Windows only) Realtek integrated high definition audio with internal speaker

Pre-loaded Manageability tools (Microsoft Windows only)

ENERGY STAR 4.0 Compliance with energy-saving features available on selected configurations (Not supported by Linux) Protected by HP Services, including a 3 years parts, 3 years labor, and 3 years onsite service (3/3/3) standard warranty. Terms and conditions vary by country. Certain restrictions and exclusions apply.

*Red Flag Linux available in China only

**Hardware RAID is not supported on Linux systems. The Linux kernel, with built-in software RAID, provides excellent, functionality and performance. It is a good alternative to hardware-based RAID. Please visit http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00060684/c00060684.pdf for RAID capabilities with Linux.

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