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Technical Specifications

Dell™ Dimension™ 2300

  Microprocessor   Video
  System Information   Audio
  Expansion Bus   Controls and Lights
  Memory   Power
  Drives   Physical
  Ports and Connectors   Environmental

 


Microprocessor

Microprocessor type

Intel® Pentium® 4 that runs at 1.80 GHz internally and 400 MHz externally or Intel Celeron® that runs at 1.70 GHz internally and 400 MHz externally

NOTE: Microprocessor offerings vary by country.

L1 cache

8 KB first-level (Pentium 4); 32 KB (16-KB data cache; 16-KB instruction cache) (Celeron).

L2 cache

256- or 512-KB (displayed in the system setup program) pipelined-burst, eight-way set associative, write-back SRAM (Pentium 4);

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

System Information

System chip set

Intel 845GL

DMA channels

seven

Interrupt levels

24 APIC mode

System BIOS chip

2 Mb (256 KB)

System clock

400-MHz data rate

Expansion Bus

Bus types

PCI

Bus speed

PCI: 33 MHz

PCI connectors

four

PCI connector size

120 pins

PCI connector data width
(maximum)

32 bits

Memory

Architecture

SDRAM

Memory connectors

two

Memory capacities

128-, 256-, or 512-MB

Minimum memory

128 MB

Maximum memory

1 GB

Memory type

PC133 SDRAM (non-ECC)

Drives

Externally accessible

two 5.25-inch bays
one 3.5-inch bay

Internally accessible

one bay for 1-inch–high IDE hard drive

Ports and Connectors

Externally accessible:

Serial

9-pin connector; 16550C-compatible

Parallel

25-hole connector (bidirectional)

Video

15-hole connector

Keyboard

6-pin mini-DIN connector

Mouse

6-pin mini-DIN connector

USB

two front-panel and four back-panel USB 2.0–compliant connectors

Audio

three back miniature connectors for line-in, line-out, and microphone; one front miniature connector for line-out

Internally accessible:

Primary IDE channel

40-pin connector on PCI local bus

Secondary IDE channel

40-pin connector on PCI local bus

Floppy drive

34-pin connector

Video

Video controller

Intel integrated AGP graphics*

*Integrated AGP graphics uses a maximum of 32 MB of main memory.

Audio

Audio controller

Integrated AC97

Controls and Lights

Power control

push button

Front-panel power light

solid green for power-on state; blinking green for standby state

Hard-drive access light

green

Power

DC power supply:

Wattage

200 W

Heat dissipation

682 BTU (fully-loaded computer without monitor)

Voltage (see the safety instructions in your Owner's Manual for important voltage setting information)

100 to 120 V at 60 Hz; 200 to 240 V at 50 Hz

Backup battery

3-V CR2032 coin cell

Physical

Height x Width x Depth

36.8 x 18.4 x 42.6 cm

(14.5 x 7.25 x 16.75 inches)

Weight

10.4 kg (23 lb)

Environmental

Temperature:

Operating

0º to 35ºC (32º to 95ºF)

Storage

–20º to 70ºC (–4º to 158ºF)

Relative humidity

20% to 80% (noncondensing)

Maximum vibration:

Operating

0.25 G at 10 to 500 Hz at 1/2 octave/min

Storage

1.48 G at 10 to 500 Hz, vibration with the computer

Maximum shock:

Nonoperating (half-sine pulse)

105 G, 2 ms

Nonoperating (faired-square
wave)

32 G with a velocity change of 596.9 cm/sec (235 inches/sec)


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