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Dell Dimension 4600 Series
what's the diff between the 4600
specs and the Dimension 8300?
Summary:
- The 8300 has one more PCI slot.
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Dell
Dimension 4600 Series |
Dell Dimension 8300 Series | FragBox Pro
(falcon-nw) (alternative: the Mini Me) |
$1517 | |||
Microprocessor Type: |
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology options: |
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology Intel® Pentium® 4 microprocessor |
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology |
System Board Chipset: |
i865G
8x AGP
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i875P Note: The i875P has a faster memory transfer rate than the i865G 800 Mhz system bus; |
Intel® 865G+ICH5 i865G 800 Mhz system bus; (view details on Ice-Cube IC-VL67 )
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Intel® 865PE/G/P = Springdale[2] "i865 (Springdale) Family - a reasonable substitute for i875P" |
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4600 board: [i865G] | |||
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3 PCI Slots 1 AGP Slot 2 SATA connectors |
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8300 board: [i875P] | |||
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4 PCI Slots 1 AGP Slot 2 SATA connectors |
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Dell
Dimension 4600 Series |
Dell Dimension 8300 Series | FragBox Pro (falcon-nw) |
Drives: | 2 CD-ROM Slots, 2 HD Slots |
two 5.25-inch bays (externally accessible) two Hard Drive bays (externally accessible) |
one CD/DVD bay two Hard Drive bays |
Comes with:
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120GB Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drive, 7200 RPM |
1.44MB Black Floppy Drive 120GB DVD+/-RW Black (also supports DVD-Rom, CD-RW media) |
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Video: (comes with) |
BFG Asylum nVidia "Falcon used BFG's Asylum GeForce FX 5950 card, whose slimmed down thermal solution allows Falcon Northwest to use this GPU in a single slot. Until recently, GeForceFX 5900 and 5950 cards would not fit into small form factor PCs owing to their large cooling system that effectively eats two slots." [s] |
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Audio: | Digital & Analog 6-Channel Sound (integrated audio, AC'97 Codec) - Realtek 5.1 audio solution | ||
Memory: | |||
System chip set details for the Intel 875P AGP: 8X Supported Bus Types: PCI (33 MHz) and AGP (133 MHz) |
1024MB DDR Memory - 400MHz |
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L1 cache 8 KB L2 cache 512-KB or 1-MB pipelined-burst, eight-way set associative, write-back SRAM L3 cache 2 MB NOTE: L3 cache is available only with Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processors that support Hyper-Threading technology. |
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"One potential drawback of the iI875P chipset is its removal of the 400Mhz FSB.
This means if you want to use an i875P you will need either a 533Mhz or 800Mhz FSB CPU. i865-G does however support 400/533/800Mhz FSB." |
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"DDR-400 (PC3200) memory alone in single channel supports a max theoretical bandwidth of 3.2GB/s,
using Dual Channel you get 6.4GB/s, the same bandwidth speed that the 800Mhz FSB P4 is able to generate." |
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Memory Type: DDR 333 or 400 (non-ECC) DDR memory modules should be installed in pairs of matched memory size. |
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If
you install mixed pairs PC2700 (DDR 333-MHz) and PC3200 (DDR 400-MHz) of
memory modules, they function at the slowest speed of the modules you install.
Addressing Memory with 4-GB Configurations Your computer supports a maximum of 4 GB of memory when you use four 1-GB DIMMs. Current operating systems, such as Microsoft® Windows® XP, can only use a maximum of 4 GB of address space; however, the amount of memory available to the operating system is less than 4 GB. Certain components within the computer require address space in the 4-GB range. Any address space reserved for these components cannot be used by computer memory. |
Microsoft Windows XP Home PowerDVD DVD playback software Emergency System Recovery DVD |
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1GB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz (2x512M) PC3200 |
Drives
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128MB DDR ATI RADEON 9800 PRO Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI | |||
Front I/O: |
two USB ports, FireWire, audio line out, audio line in, S/PDIF in, and mic in. 1394A - Upfront Firewire (1394) port USB X 2 - 2 Upfront USB ports audio line out, audio line in, (rear out), Mic in - Upfront speaker connections; SPDIF |
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Total I/O |
Intel USB 2.0 controller 4 Ports 1394a Firewire controller w/ 3 Ports 10/100 Network Interface Port |
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Features: Clear Side Panels with laser cut active cooling Blue interior lighting 1 Available PCI expansion slot Digital audio (optical) in & outs Only 9.5"(H) x 8.3"(W) x 12"(D) Weighs only 14 pounds! |
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1 To buy a new P4 3.0 GHz (if you want to upgrade) is $220 [back^]
2 i875P = Canterwood, Intel 865PE/G/P = Springdale
My Sys | Alienware (Area 51 "performance" low-end) | Falcon Northwest Mach V | Dell Dimension 4600 Series |
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$2,825 (+$400) | $1,517 | |
1.80GHz | 3.0 GHz | 3.0 GHz | Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology 3GHz w/800MHz FSB |
Intel® i850 Chipset (400MHz system bus; Dual RDRAM capability) |
Intel® 875P / ICH5R (800Mhz system bus; PC-3200 DDR SDRAM; 4GB; 8x AGP; ATA-100; Serial ATA-150 Support) |
Intel® 875P |
865G 800 Mhz system bus; Dual-Channel DDR SDRAM 400; 8x AGP |
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe - Intel 875P Motherboard | ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe - Intel 875P Motherboard | ||
120GB Seagate Barracuda® 7200.7 Serial ATA 7,200 RPM 8MB Cache |
120GB Seagate ST3120026AS 7200RPM SATA |
120GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) | |
1024MB DDR SDRAM Memory - 400MHz PC-3200 |
1024MB DDR SDRAM Memory - 400MHz PC-3200 |
1GB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz (2x512M) PC3200 | |
Alienware Extreme Edition GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 256MB 8x AGP w/DVI & S-Video |
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra | 128MB DDR ATI RADEON 9800 PRO Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI | |
Plextor PX-708A 8x DVD±R/W Drive - Black | DVD+/-RW, TDK | ||
Creative Labs Audigy II ZS Platinum Pro [+238] |
Creative Labs Audigy II ZS Platinum Pro |
+238 | |
This page first posted: April 22, 2004. Last updated: same
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