HP VISUALIZE X-Class - Manual (Page 4)

Package
• Expandable mid-tower package
• HP Multifunction Ergonomic Keyboard with programmable
application shortcut buttons
• HP 3-Button Mouse
• Support for two 10K RPM Ultra Wide SCSI hard disk drives
• HP UltraFlow cooling system for optimal PC Workstation cooling
• HP MaxiLife system diagnostics with front-panel LCD message display
Processor
• Single or dual Intel Pentium III Xeon 500MHz and 550MHz processors:
- Intel 440GX AGP chipset
- 100MHz front side bus (FSB) system bus
• Support for Intel Multiprocessor Specification (MPS) 1.1
for dual-processor technology
Processor Cache
• 32K non-blocking level 1 cache and 512K or 1MB non-blocking
level 2 cache for fast access to priority data
- Operates at full system speed (100MHz)
Graphics Subsystems
• VISUALIZE-fx 6+ +: The industry’s fastest graphics performance on
Windows NT using six dedicated floating-point processors based
on PA-RISC technology
• VISUALIZE-fx 4+ +: World-class geometry engines using four dedicated
floating-point processors based on PA-RISC technology
• VISUALIZE-fx 2+ +: World-class geometry engines using two dedicated
floating-point processors based on PA-RISC technology
• 18 MB SGRAM frame and Z buffer memory – on fx + graphics
subsystems only
• ELSA GLoria Synergy + graphics subsystem with 8 MB SGRAM
Texture Acceleration and Memory Option
• 1-2 Dedicated texture acceleration processor(s)*
• 16-32 MB SDRAM dedicated texture memory*
• Point-sampled, bilinear, and trilinear MIP mapping
• 3D texture mapping
• Shadow texture mapping
System Memory
• 128 MB DIMM, 256 MB DIMM and 512 MB DIMM 100MHz ECC
synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) DIMM
• Expandable to 2 GB through four DIMM slots
• Error checking and correcting (ECC) for detection and correction
of 1-bit errors and detection of 2-bit errors
Hard Disk Storage
• 9.0 GB 10K Ultra Wide SCSI
• 18.0 GB 10K Ultra Wide SCSI
Hard disk controller
• Dual, integrated, independent PCI Ultra Wide SCSI controllers with
support for internal and external SCSI peripherals
• Optional HP FastRAID
- Disk caching and hardware striping solution based on
Adaptec’s RAIDport technology
- Boosts disk I/O performance up to 80%
Removable Media
• Integrated 1.44 MB floppy disk drive
• PCI Bus Master Ultra ATA/33 interfaces for up to
two internal IDE devices
• 32X CD-ROM Drive
• DVD Drive
• CD-R/RW Drive
• ZIP IDE Drive
Operating system
• HP-supported operating system: Windows NT ® Workstation 4.0
Networking and I/O
• 10/100 Ethernet LAN interface with 32-bit auto-sensing
HP NightDirector and LAN remote power on/off
• Two USB ports
• One 25 pin parallel port
• Two 9 pin serial ports
* fx 2+ /fx 4+ : 1 accelerator, 16 MB texture memory
fx 6+ : 2 accelerators, 32 MB texture SDRAM
t e c h n i c a l s p e c i f i c a t i o n s
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The latest information about HP VISUALIZE Workstation products is
available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.hp.com/visualize.
Information in this document is subject to change
without notice.
Copyright 1999 Hewlett-Packard Co.
Printed in the USA
5968-4832E
UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively
through X/Open Company Limited. Windows and Windows NT are U.S. registered trademarks
of Microsoft Corporation. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks and Pentium III Xeon is
a trademark of Intel Corporation. XWindow, Adaptec, and NSF are all registered trademarks.
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