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HP recommends Windows Vista® Business

HP XW4550 Workstation

Operating systems:

Genuine Windows Vista® Business 32-bit with downgrade to Windows® XP Professional 32-bit1custom installed

Genuine Windows Vista® Business 64-bit with downgrade to Windows® XP Professional x641 custom installed

HP Installer Kit for Linux (includes driver for 32-bit OS version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS4 and WS5)

Red Flag Linux v5 (available in China only)

Chipset: AMD 690G with ATI Radeon X1250

Processor:

AMD Opteron™ 1000 Series processors with HyperTransport2,3,4

AMD Opteron processor Model 1212 (2.00 GHz) 1 MB L2 Cache per core2,3,4

AMD Opteron processor Model 1214 (2.20 GHz) 1 MB L2 Cache per core2,3,4

AMD Opteron processor Model 1216 (2.40 GHz) 1 MB L2 Cache per core2,3,4

AMD Opteron processor Model 1218 (2.60 GHz) 1 MB L2 Cache per core2,3,4

AMD Opteron processor Model 1220 (2.80 GHz) 1 MB L2 Cache per core2,3,4

AMD Opteron processor Model 1222 (3.00 GHz) 1 MB L2 Cache per core2,3,4

Quad-core AMD Opteron processor Model 1356 (2.3 GHz) 2 MB L2 Cache2,3,4

Memory and I/O interface: HyperTransport 1000 MHz

Memory: Up to 4 GB5 DDR2 667 MHz ECC; Up to 2 GB5 DDR2-667 MHz non-ECC; 4 DIMM slots

Expansion slots: 4 full length slots: 1 PCI Express (PCIe) x16 graphics, 1 PCI Express (PCIe) x4 (x1 electrical), 2 PCI slots

Power supply: 300W wide-ranging, active Power Factor Correction, 80 PLUS efficient; ENERGY STAR® qualified optional

Audio: Integrated HD Audio (Realtek ALC262), opt. PCI Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer, opt. HP Thin USB Powered Speakers

Drive controllers: Integrated 4-channel SATA 3.0 Gb/s controller with RAID5 0, 1 and NCQ6

HyperThreading: N/A

HP XW4600 Workstation

Operating systems:

Genuine Windows Vista® Business 32-bit with downgrade to Windows® XP Professional 32-bit1custom installed

Genuine Windows Vista® Business 64-bit with downgrade to Windows® XP Professional x641 custom installed

Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ WS 4 64-bit

HP Installer Kit for Linux (includes drivers for both 32-bit & 64-bit OS versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS4 and WS5)

Red Flag Linux v5 (available in China only)

Chipset: Intel x38 Express

Processor:

Intel® Pentium® E2180 (Dual-Core 2.00 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core™ 2 Duo E4500 (Dual-Core 2.20 GHz, 2 MB shared L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 (Dual-Core 2.33 GHz, 4 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (Dual-Core 3.00 GHz, 4 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 (Dual-Core 2.53 GHz, 3 MB shared L2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 (Dual-Core 2.66 GHz, 6 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (Dual-Core 3.00 GHz, 6 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (Dual-Core 3.16 GHz, 6 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 (Dual-Core 3.33 GHz, 6 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (Quad-Core 2.40 GHz, 2 x 4 MB shared L2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 (Quad-Core 2.50 GHz, 2 x 3 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 (Quad-Core 2.66 GHz, 2 x 6 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (Quad-Core 2.83 GHz, 2 x 6 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 (Quad-Core 3.00 GHz, 2 x 6 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9

Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor QX9650 (Quad-Core 3.00 GHz, 2 x 6 MB shared L2 cache, 1333 MHz FSB)4,7,8,9,10,11

Memory and I/O interface: 1333 MHz

Memory: Up to 8 GB5 DDR2 800 MHz ECC, up to 4 GB5 DDR2 667 ECC; 4 DIMM slots

Expansion slots: 7 full length slots: 2 PCI Express (PCIe) x16 graphics, 1 PCIe x8 (x4 electrical) slot, 1 PCIe x1 slot, 3 PCI slots

Power supply: 475W; active Power Factor Correction; 80 PLUS efficient; ENERGY STAR® qualified configurations

Audio: Integrated high definition audio with jack retasking capability, opt. PCI Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer, opt. HP Thin USB Powered Speakers

Drive controllers: Integrated serial ATA controller (ICH9R) 3 Gb/s (NCQ with 5 internal and 1 external SATA connectors) with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 capability; removable boot drive option6

HyperThreading: N/A

Certain Windows Vista product features require advanced or additional hardware. See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/hardwarereqs.mspx and http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx for details. Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can help you determine which features of Windows Vista will run on your computer. To download the tool, visit http://www.windowsvista.com/upgradeadvisor. All HP Personal Workstations are capable of running Genuine Windows Vista Business. Windows Vista Business disk also included for future upgrade if desired.

1Available for end user customers that are a business (including governmental or educational institutions) who are expected to annually order at least 25 Customer Systems with the same Custom Image.

2This system requires a separately purchased 64-bit operating system and 64-bit software products to take advantage of the 64-bit processing capabilities of AMD OpertonTM series 1000 processor technology. Dual-core processing available with AMD OpertonTM 1000 series processor technology is a recent technology innovation designed to improve performance of this system. Given the wide range of software applications available, performance of a system including a 64-bit operating system and a dual-core processor will vary.

3AMD’s numbering is not a measurement of clock speed.

4GHz refers to internal clock speed of the processor. Other factors besides clock speed may impact system and application performance.

5 Above 3 GB, all memory may not be available due to system resource requirements.

6Hardware 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.

7Quad-Core and Dual-Core are new technologies designed to improve performance of multithreaded software products and hardware-aware multitasking operating systems and may require appropriate operating system software for full benefits; check with software provider to determine suitability; Not all customers or software applications will necessarily benefit from use of these technologies.

8Intel’s numbering is not a measurement of higher performance.

9Actual bus clock rate is less. Listed bus speed represents the effective data transfer rate.

1064-bit computing on Intel architecture requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, operating system, device drivers and applications enabled for Intel® 64 architecture. Processors will not operate (including 32-bit operation) without an Intel 64 architecture-enabled BIOS. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software configurations. See www.intel.com/info/em64t for more information.

11This workstation does not support the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor over-clocking feature.2