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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.


Dell Dimension 4600 Series
Dell Dimension 8300 Series FragBox Pro (falcon-nw)

(alternative: the Mini Me)
  $1517  

$1700

Microprocessor Type:

Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology
3GHz w/800MHz FSB

options:

Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology
3GHz
w/800MHz FSB

Intel® Pentium® 4 microprocessor
options:
2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 3.0, 3.2, and 3.4 for 800 FSB,
and 2.4, 2.66, 2.8, and 3.06 for 533 FSB

Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology
2.80GHz
w/800MHz FSB [1]

System Board Chipset:

i865G
("Springdale")




800 Mhz system bus;
Dual-Channel DDR (Dual DDR)
SDRAM 400;

8x AGP

 

i875P
("Canterwood")

Note: The i875P has a faster memory transfer rate than the i865G

800 Mhz system bus;
Dual-Channel DDR (Dual DDR)
SDRAM 400;

The 875P has ECC Support.

Intel® 865G+ICH5

i865G
("Springdale")

800 Mhz system bus;
DDR SDRAM DIMM x 2

(view details on Ice-Cube IC-VL67 )
(read review / system compare of FragBox)

 

 

Intel® 865PE/G/P = Springdale[2]

"i865 (Springdale) Family - a reasonable substitute for i875P"
"The 865G chipset, with its slightly reduced set of features, is less expensive. "

view 865G system architecture

view "Springdale" (865) article

4600 board: [i865G]

 

3 PCI Slots

1 AGP Slot

2 SATA connectors

8300 board: [i875P]

 

4 PCI Slots

1 AGP Slot

2 SATA connectors


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)
[Standard 5.25" x 2]

two Hard Drive bays (externally accessible)
[3.5" HDD x 2]

one CD/DVD bay
[Standard 5.25" x 1]

two Hard Drive bays
[3.5" HDD x 2]

Comes with:
120GB
Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drive, 7200 RPM
 

1.44MB Black Floppy Drive

120GB
Hard Drive, 7200 RPM, 8MB Cache

DVD+/-RW Black (also supports DVD-Rom, CD-RW media)

Video: (comes with)    

BFG Asylum nVidia
GeForceFX 5950 Ultra 256MB Graphics Card

"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]

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

DMA channels: eight

Interrupt levels: 15

BIOS chip: 4 Mb

NIC: integrated PCI Network Interface

System clock: 533- or 800-MHz data rate

AGP: 8X

Supported Bus Types: PCI (33 MHz) and AGP (133 MHz)

1024MB DDR Memory - 400MHz

    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.
 
"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."
"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."
    Memory Type: DDR 333 or 400 (non-ECC)
DDR memory modules should be installed in pairs of matched memory size.
 
    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
  1GB
Dual Channel
DDR SDRAM
at 400MHz (2x512M) PC3200

Drives



Available devices
ATA-66 or ATA-100 Ultra DMA hard drive, serial ATA drive, CD drive, Zip drive, DVD drive, CD-RW drive, DVD/CD-RW combo drive, and DVD+RW drive

Internally accessible
two bays for 1-inch–high hard drives

 
 

 

   
  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;
Upfront microphone connection

SPDIF

Total I/O    

Intel USB 2.0 controller 4 Ports

1394a Firewire controller w/ 3 Ports

10/100 Network Interface Port

      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!
       

 

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
 

$2,432

$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
       

 

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