Activate week 11

I have chosen the following computer from the dell company for a number of reasons. It has a wide range of options to allow me to change parts of it to make it more suited for

the task. It is able to run windows XP which means it will run faster and smother then if it was windows vista. It has a large memory and fast processor as well as lots of ram. Its graphic and audio cards are well suited for the task. The online cost of the computer is

$4199.

Processors

Quad-core Intel® Xeon

® 5500 series processors with up to 6.4GT/s (Intel QuickPath Interconnect) and up to 8MB

shared cache and Turbo Boost Mode on select processors

All processors are 64-bit, support Intel® DBS (Demand Based Switching) and Intel

® VT (Intel

® Virtualisation

Technology).

Operating System

Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate

Genuine Windows Vista® Business

Genuine Windows Vista® Business 64-Bit

Genuine Windows® XP Professional SP2 32-Bit available via downgrade rights

Genuine Windows® XP Professional SP2 64-Bit available via downgrade rights

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux

® WS v.5.3 EM64T

Chipset

Intel® 5520 chipset

Memory

Up to 96GB1 with dual processors installed. Three channel memory architecture per processor with 1333 MHz and

1066MHz DDR3 ECC DIMM memory.

Up to 12 DIMM slots; 6 slots (2 per channel) on motherboard and additional 6 slots on optional 2nd processor riser

card. The 2nd processor has an integrated memory controller which provides an additional 3 channels of memory

bandwidth.

Graphics

Support for 2 PCI Express x16 Gen 2 graphics cards up to 225 watts and with up to 4GB graphics memory including:

ATI FireProTM V8700

ATI FireProTM V3750

NVIDIA Quadro® FX 5800

NVIDIA Quadro® FX 4800

NVIDIA Quadro® FX 3800

NVIDIA Quadro® FX 1800

NVIDIA Quadro® FX 580

NVIDIA Quadro® NVS 295

All graphics cards support dual monitor configurations; Future availability of NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface)

option

GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)

The T7500 supports the NVIDIA® TeslaTM C1060 GPU card with 240 cores and 4GB of memory

Hard Drives

SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM with 16MB DataBurst CacheTM up to 1.5TB

SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM with 8MB DataBurst Cache up to 320GB

SATA 3.0Gb/s 10K RPM with 16MB DataBurst Cache up to 300GB

SAS 15K RPM up to 450GB

Chassis supports up to five internal drives in a SATA boot plus four SATA drive configuration (7.5TB maximum

storage capacity)

Hard Drive Controller

Integrated LSI 1068e SAS/SATA 3.0Gb/s controller supports host based RAID 0 or 1

Optional PERC 6/i PCI-e SAS/SATA hardware RAID card supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10

Single Raid 0 GPT DATA volumes greater than 2TB are available as factory installed option with the optional PERC

6/i PCI-e RAID adapter under Windows XP64, Vista 32Bit/64Bit operating systems

Network Controller

Integrated Broadcom® 5761 Gigabit Ethernet controller

2nd Gigabit port is available with the optional PCI-e Broadcom Gigabit controller card

Audio Controller

Integrated High Definition Audio (Rev 1.0 Specification) implemented with a two-chip audio solution comprised of the

ADI 1984a High Definition Audio CODEC and the ICH10's integrated AC97/High Definition digital controller.

Chassis

Bays Four internal 3.5" HDD bays

Three external 5.25" optical bays, one of which can accommodate a fifth HDD

One external 3.5" flex bay for floppy drive or media card reader

Slots All full length except as noted

One PCI-e x16 Gen 2 wired as x4

Two PCI-e x16 Gen 2 slots wired as x8 (one is half length)

Two PCI-e x16 Gen 2 graphics slots

One PCI-X 64bit/100MHz slot with support for 3.3v or universal cards

One PCI 32bit/33Mhz 5V slot

Standard I/O Ports (11) USB 2.0 (two on front panel, six on back panel, three internal)

(2) IEEE 1394a (one front, one rear)

(1) serial

(1) parallel

(2) PS/2

(1) RJ-45

(1) ESATA port on back panel

Stereo line-in and headphone line-out on back panel

Microphone and headphone connector on front panel

Power Supply

1100 watts 85%+ Efficiency Power Factor Correcting (PFC) power supply

Storage Devices

Optional Removable Storage

DVD-ROM, DVD+/-RW, Blu-Ray, USB Floppy Drive, USB media card reader

Optional Modem

Dell 56K v.92 Data/Fax PCI modem

Security

Software

Trusted Platform Module 1.2 (TPM 1.2)

Chassis intrusion switch – Optional

Setup/BIOS Password

I/O Interface Security

Hardware Kensington Lock

Padlock

Internal front panel chassis lock

I will also add in a range of other devices

Device Cost Reason

External hard drive –

western digital 500GB

$199.00 I have chosen to add this as it is need to

ensure that all assets (eg images, projects ect)

are protected and backed up. I chose this

particular device because it has a good name

and there is a large amount of memory.

Tablet- BAMBOO FUN

MEDIUM Wacom Drawing

Tablets

$199.00

(most

likly US

dollars)

Because the computer is used for graphic

design I have chosen to get a drawing tablet to

assist in the drawing of images.

http://www.arrowcomputers.com.au/shop/view/western_digital_500gb_external_h

dd/107

http://www.drawittablet.com/product/CTE650

http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx?c=au&cs=aubsd1

&id=workstation-precision-t7500&l=en&s=bsd