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This is a page detailing some of the components that make up my computer.
MIDI Tower ATX Case
All Drive/Bay covers are easy to remove and replace from the front panel.
Whole structure with crimped edges.
Convenient side door opening on both sides of the chassis.
5.25": 3
3.5": 3
Slots: 7
Mainboard: ATX/ Micro ATX
235W Power Supply Unit
Speakers
RMS: 6W rated power output
PMPO: 120W prompt power output
Driver Unit: Full-range 76mm
Frequency Response: 60Hz V 20KHz
Controls on front panel: Power, Volume
Keyboard
107/108 keys compatible layout
One touch to sleep/wake up mode for Windows Me/98
Palm rest gives your hands great typing posture
Membrane tactile switches give comfort to your fingers
Mouse
Innovative Internet browsing tool with special scrolling features
Magic Scroller: you can easily scroll up, down, left or right without moving the mouse.
Roller button: you can easily Switch between Windows applications or documents via Button Assignment
CPU
1. Supports AMD-K7 Duron 600MHZ-850MHZ or future 200MHz FSB Socket A Processors
2. Supports AMD-K7 Athlon 700MHZ-1.2GHZ or future 266MHz FSB Socket A Processors
3. Supports 200/266 MHz Alpha EV6 bus for the AMD Athlon & Duron Processors
Chipset
1. VIA KT133A /VIA 686B
2. Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI)
3. Supports AGP 2X/4X (Sideband)
4. Supports 100/133MHz Memory Bus Settings
Ultra DMA 100
1. High Point HTP370 IDE Controller
2. Ultra DMA 100MB/Sec data transfer rate
3. RAID 0(stripping mode for boosting performance)
4. RAID 1 (mirroring mode for data security)
5. RAID 0 +1(stripping and mirroring)
Memory
1. Three 168-pin DIMM sockets support PC100/PC133 SDRAM module
2. Supports up to 1.5 GB MAX. (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512MB SDRAM)
System BIOS
1. SOFTMENUTM III Technology to set CPU parameters
2. Award Plug and Play BIOS
3. Write-Protect Anti-Virus function by AWARD BIOS
4. Year 2000 Compliant
Multi I/O Functions
1. Two Channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA 33/66/100(up to 4 HDD devices)
2. Two Channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA 33
3. PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connectors
4. 1x Floppy Port (up to 2.88MB)
5. 1x Parallel Port (EPP/ECP)
6. 2x Serial Ports
7. 2x USB Connectors
8. On board USB header for Two extra USB channels
Miscellaneous
1. ATX form factor
2. 1 AGP slot, 6 PCI slots and 1 ISA slots
3. Hardware monitoring - Including Fan speed, Voltages, System environment temperature
4. Built-in Wake on LAN/Wake on Modem
5. Built-in IrDA TX/RX header
Socket A
CPU 1200MHz
Bus Speed 266 MHz
Clock Multiplier x8.5
Core Voltage 1.7V
I/O Voltage 3.3 V
L1 Cache: 128 KB
L2 Cache: 256 KB processor speed
3 x 256MB
133Mhz
168Pin SDRam
Major Brand
NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR)
2nd Generation T&L Engines
Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory
DirectX Texture Compression
1.6 Gigatexel Fill Rate
25 Million triangles/sec through T&L and setup
5.3 GB/sec Memory Bandwidth
NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture
Industrys first fully 1.2 compliant Professional OpenGL support for all Windows and Linux operating systems.
Specification
256-bit graphics architecture
AGP 2X and 4X support, including
Fast Writes and Execute Mode
Maximum 3D/2D resolution of
2048*1536 @ 75Hz
32Mb of DDR SGRAM
3D Features
High Performance Hardware
Antialiasing
Optimised DirectX and OpenGL acceleration
256-bit graphics engine
8 texture-mapped, filtered, lit texels per clock cycle
Single pass multi-texturing
32-bit Colours Z/Stencil buffer
High Quality Texture Filtering, including Anisotropic
Advanced per-pixel, perspective- correct texturing and Shading
Cube environment mapping
Per-pixel dot product 3 bump mapping
Per-pixel lighting and shading
Projective textures
Procedural textures
Multi-texture and multi-pass
Texture modulation
Per-pixel Bump mapping
Light maps
Reflection maps
BRDF Support: Bi-Directional Reflectance Distribution Functions
DX6 texture compression
Fog and Depth Cueing
Radial or Linear
Per-vertex or per-pixel
2D Features
High Performance 256-bit 2D acceleration
Optimised for multiple colour depths including 32, 24, 16,15 and 8-bits per pixel
True-colour hardware cursor
Multi-buffering (double, triple, quad buffering) for smooth animation and video playback
X and Y smooth up scaling and downscaling
Per-pixel colour keying
Multiple video windows with hardware colour space conversion (YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0) and 5-tap horizontal by 3-tap vertical filtering
DVD sub-picture alpha blended compositing
Video acceleration for DirectShow, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and Indeo
Drivers
Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, display drivers
Windows95, Windows 98 display drivers supporting DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectVideo, ActiveX
OpenGL ICD for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT
Fully PC00, PC99, PC99a compliant
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