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Technical Specifications: Dell Dimension 900 System Reference

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Technical Specifications: Dell™ Dimension™ 900 System Reference

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Microprocessor

Microprocessor type Intel� Pentium� III (866- or 933-MHz or 1.00-GHz internal bus speed at 133-MHz external bus speed) or Celeron™ (700-MHz at 66-MHz external bus speed or 800- or 900-MHz or 1.00- or 1.10-GHz at 100-MHz external bus speed) microprocessor
L1 cache 32-KB (16-KB data cache; 16-KB instruction cache)
L2 cache:

Pentium III processors

256-KB Advanced Transfer Cache that resides in the processor core (The L2 cache runs at the processor internal clock speed.)

Celeron processors

128-KB SRAM that resides in the processor’s core (The L2 cache runs at the processor’s internal clock speed.)
Math coprocessor internal to microprocessor

Memory

Architecture non-ECC SDRAM
DIMM sockets two; gold contacts
DIMM capacities 32-, 64-, 128-, and 256-MB
System RAM 32 to 512 MB
Frequency 100 MHz
BIOS address F0000h

System Information

System chip set Intel 810e
Data bus width 64 bits
Address bus width 32 bits
DMA channels eight
Interrupts 15
System BIOS Y2K-, DMI 2.0s-, and system management BIOS 2.3-compliant BIOS in 4-Mb flash chip
System clock 66 or 100 MHz (matches external bus speed)

Video

Graphics architecture Intel Dynamic Video Memory (DVM) technology
Graphics accelerator Intel Direct AGP 2D and 3D graphics accelerator
Display cache 4 MB, 133-MHz SDRAM
Graphics memory Dynamically assigned from system memory
Video resolutions 800 x 600 pixels; 75 Hz refresh rate with 16.7 million colors
1024 x 786 pixels; 75 Hz refresh rate with 64,000 colors
1280 x 1024 pixels; 75 Hz refresh rate with 256 colors
1600 x 1200 pixels; 75 Hz refresh rate with 256 colors

Audio

Audio controller AD1881
Audio bus AC97

Expansion Bus

Bus type PCI (version 2.2)
Bus speed 33 MHz
Expansion-card connectors supports two one-third–length PCI expansion cards
Expansion-card connector size 120 pins
Expansion-card connector data width (maximum) 32 bits

Drives

Externally accessible one 3.5-inch bay for a 3.5-inch slimline diskette drive; one 5.25-inch bay for an optical drive (slim-height devices only)
Internally accessible bays: one bay for a 1-inchhigh EIDE hard-disk drive

Ports and Connectors

Externally accessible:

Serial (DTE)

9-pin connector; 16550-compatible

Parallel

25-hole connector (bidirectional)

Video

15-hole connector

PS/2-style keyboard

6-pin mini-DIN

PS/2-compatible mouse

6-pin mini-DIN

USB

one USB-compliant connector on the front panel; one on the back panel

Audio

two front-panel miniature jacks for microphone and headphones and one back-panel miniature line-out jack for speakers
Internally accessible:

Primary EIDE hard-disk drive

40-pin connector on PCI local bus

Secondary EIDE removable media drive

50-pin slimline connector on PCI local bus

Diskette drive

26-pin slimline connector

Fan

2-pin connector

Controls and Indicators

Power control push button
Power indicators green on system board; green on front panel
Hard-disk drive access indicator green

Power

DC power supply:

Wattage

100 W

Heat dissipation

808 BTU (nominal)

Voltage

100 V at 50–60 Hz for Japanese systems;
90–135 V at 60 Hz;
180–265 V at 50 Hz
System battery 3-V CR2032 coin cell

Physical

Height 7.8 cm (3.0 inches)
Width 31.0 cm (12.2 inches)
Depth 27.0 cm (10.6 inches)
Weight 6.6 kg (14.5 lb)

Environmental

Temperature:

Operating

10� to 35�C (50� to 95�F)*

Storage

–40� to 65�C (–40� to 149�F)
Relative humidity:

Operating

20% to 80% (noncondensing)

Storage

5% to 95% (noncondensing)
Maximum vibration:

Operating

0.25 G at 3 to 200 Hz at 0.5 octave/min

Storage

0.5 G at 3 to 200 Hz at 1 octave/min
Maximum shock:

Operating

bottom half-sine pulse with a change in velocity of 50.8 cm/sec (20 inches/sec)

Storage

27-G faired-square wave with a velocity change of 508 cm/sec (200 inches/sec)
Altitude:

Operating

–15.2 to 3048 m (–50 to 10,000 ft)*

Storage

–15.2 to 10,668 m (–50 to 35,000 ft)
* At 35�C (95�F), the maximum operating altitude is 914 m (3000 ft).  
NOTE: The Glossary defines abbreviations and acronyms.

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