Technical specifications – Dell PowerEdge SC 420 User Manual
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Technical Specifications
Dell™ PowerEdge™ SC420 Systems User's Guide
Processor
Processor type
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with a minimum clock
speed of at least 2.8 GHz
or
Intel Celeron® processor with a minimum clock speed
of at least 2.8 GHz
Internal cache
At least 1 MB (Intel Pentium 4 processor) and 256 KB
(Intel Celeron processor)
Front-side bus speed
800 MHz (Intel Pentium 4 processor) and 533 MHz
(Intel Celeron processor)
Expansion Bus
Bus type
PCI Express and PCI
Expansion slots
PCIe
2.5-GHz PCI Express x8, 3.3-V, 12-V (slot 1)
2.5-GHz PCI Express x1, 3.3-V, 12-V (slot 5)
PCI
Three 5-V, half-length, 32-bit, 33-MHz (slots 2
through 4)
Memory
Architecture
72-bit, ECC, PC-3200, Unbuffered, DDR II SDRAM,
DIMMs, rated for 400-MHz operation
or
72-bit, ECC, PC-4300, Unbuffered, DDR II SDRAM,
DIMMs, rated for 533-MHz operation
Memory module sockets
Four 240-pin
Memory module capacities
256 MB, 512 MB, or 1 GB
Minimum RAM
256 MB (one 256-MB module)
Maximum RAM
4 GB
Drives
Hard drives
SATA
Up to two non-hot-plug, 1-inch, internal SATA hard
drives with the integrated SATA controller
SCSI
Up to two non-hot-plug, 1-inch, internal SCSI drives
with a SCSI controller card
Diskette drive
One optional 3.5-inch, 1.44-MB
CD drive
One IDE CD, DVD, CD-RW/DVD combination, or DVD-
RW
NOTE:
DVD devices are data only.
Tape drives
One optional 5.25-inch, or one IDE tape device
Connectors
Externally accessible
Back
NIC
RJ-45 (for integrated 1-Gigabit NICs)
Parallel
25-pin
PS/2-style keyboard
6-pin mini-DIN