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DELL CONFIDENTIAL - Preliminary 8/17/98
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Dell
Precision™ 210 systems are high-speed, upgradable workstations designed
around Intel
®
Pentium
®
II microprocessors. These systems support the high-
performance Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus and the accelerated
graphics port (AGP) bus. Each system also has an Industry-Standard Architecture (ISA)
design with one ISA slot that allows you to configure the computer system to your
initial requirements and then upgrade it as necessary.
This chapter describes the major hardware and software features of the system and
provides information you will need to reinstall the operating system, if necessary. It
also provides information about the indicators and controls on the computer’s front
panel and discusses connecting external devices to the computer.
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The system offers the following features:
An Intel Pentium II microprocessor. The following microprocessor options are
available:
— Single or dual Intel Pentium II microprocessor(s) with an internal speed of
350 megahertz (MHz) and an external speed of 100 MHz
— Single or dual Intel Pentium II microprocessor(s) with an internal speed of
400 MHz and an external speed of 100 MHz
— Single or dual Intel Pentium II microprocessor(s) with an internal speed of
450 MHz and an external speed of 100 MHz
The Intel Pentium II microprocessor includes MMX
™
technology designed to han-
dle complex multimedia and communications software. This microprocessor
incorporates new instructions and data types as well as a technique called Single
Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD). SIMD allows the microprocessor to process
multiple data elements in parallel, thereby improving system performance when
you are running application programs written to take advantage of MMX
technology.
The Intel Pentium II microprocessor has a 16-kilobyte (KB) internal data cache and
a 16-KB internal instruction cache, an internal math coprocessor, and other
advanced internal logic.