Introduction: Dell OptiPlex GX1 Small-Form-Factor System User's Guide
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65,536 colors
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2X AGP provides a dedicated bus from the video subsystem to the system chip set. AGP-based video
subsystems have two significant performance advantages over PCI-based video subsystems:
— The AGP bus reduces bandwidth requirements of the PCI bus, improving overall system
performance.
— The AGP bus allows a 3D video subsystem to execute directly from main memory.
A diskette interface, which supports a 3.5-inch diskette drive.
Enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) support. The primary and secondary interface are both
located on the PCI bus to provide faster data throughput. Each interface supports high-capacity EIDE
drives, as well as devices such as ATA 33 hard-disk drives and EIDE CD-ROM drives.
Two high-performance serial ports and one bidirectional parallel port for connecting external devices.
The parallel port is fully Enhanced Capabilities Port (ECP)-compliant.
A Personal System/2 (PS/2)-style keyboard port and a PS/2-compatible mouse port.
An optional integrated, 10/100-megabit-per-second (Mbps) 3Com® PCI 3C905B-TX Ethernet network
interface controller (NIC). The NIC is configured using software on the
Dell ResourceCD
.
A 16-bit, integrated Plug and Play Crystal CS4236B audio controller that provides all the sound
functions of the Sound Blaster Pro expansion card. For more information, see the
Dell ResourceCD
.
Software Features
The following software is included with your Dell computer system:
System utilities that safeguard your system and enhance the operation of its features. For more
information, see the
Dell ResourceCD
.
Video drivers for displaying many popular applications in high-resolution modes. For more information,
see the
Dell ResourceCD
.
Audio drivers for enabling the sound functions on the expansion sound card. For more information, see
the
Dell ResourceCD
.
Bus-mastering EIDE drivers to improve performance by off-loading certain functions from the
microprocessor during multithreaded operation (when several application programs are running
simultaneously). For more information, see the
Dell ResourceCD
.
