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HP xw4550 RB510UT AMD Workstation PC - AMD Opteron Dual Core 1212 2.0GHz, 2GB DDR2, 2x250 GB SATA, DVD-RW Lightscribe, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290, Windows XP Professional, Vista Business Upgrade
HP xw4550 RB510UT AMD Workstation PC
The HP xw4550 RB510UT puts workstation power within reach. This powerful and reliable new HP Workstation is designed and engineered to give you and your business a professional edge at an affordable price. Enjoy 2GB of DDR2 memory to run all your programs quickly and effectively, and count on 2GB of DDR2 memory to safeguard all your documents and files. You’ll get 6 drive bays to use for several computing needs and expand your storage capacity if you wish. You’ll also easily become captivated by the amazing graphics and performance of your video games with the PCI-Express Video Card. Start up your system with one of the best – Windows XP Professional. There’s a lot for you to explore with the HP xw4550 RB510UT AMD Workstation PC, so get moving!
Desktop affordability, workstation advantage
Drive the business productivity that can set you apart. The HP xw4550 Workstation combines desktop affordability with the performance, expandability, graphics and certified applications of a workstation
Robust and cost-effective dual- and quad-core AMD Opteron processors
Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors and architecture power the performance to satisfy the visually-intensive demands and reliability requirements of professional applications.
Dedicated to reducing our environmental impact
Realize a savings in power consumption and energy costs. With an 80 PLUS efficient power supply standard, ENERGY STAR® qualified configurations, and EPEAT™ Gold listing, the HP xw4550 is designed to optimize energy use.
HP's EPEAT™ Gold certification implies that the xw4550 is environmentally friendly in how it was manufactured, throughout its lifecycle, and will be when it reaches its end of life.
Elegant, industrial design
With its convertible mini-tower design, the HP xw4550 features a quiet, tool-less chassis and clean interior for easy access and was designed for system flexibility and upgradeability options for the future.
Tested and optimized
Certified with a variety of MCAD and DCC software to provide an optimized solution for engineers, designers and others, the HP xw4550 is also well suited for advanced business users who have outgrown the limits of traditional PCs.
Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
Data type
Time to re-create 20 MB
Cost
Sales and marketing
19 days
$17,000
Accounting
21 days
$19,000
Engineering
42 days
$98,000
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
The way size is calculated and
displayed.
Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right: The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE: Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
explore.
Got Enough
Memory? Bet You'll Need More!
Windows Vista and today's software
applications make much greater demands on your system's memory. Adding
peripherals, like webcams, USB hard drives, and complex Internet pages, all
take memory. Watching DVD movies, or watching videos on the web, or
playing PC based games demand increased memory. So take full
advantage of your system's potential, your operating system's enhancement
and entertainment capabilities, and your software's productivity by expanding
your system memory!
The best time to
add more memory is when you buy your system! Get the memory that's
right for your computer, whether laptop, desktop, or All-In-One.
Click Here for our Memory Upgrade Options. »
Shared
Memory? Or Where Did My Memory Go?
Your computer uses memory to run your
Operating System, applications, peripherals, and to generate and display
graphics on your computer monitor. Video memory is a form of RAM, and is
either built into your motherboard; or on a graphics card (video card).
Depending on the motherboard's configuration, and that of the video card (if
separate or built-in to the motherboard), your computer may have to draw on
its own RAM memory to meet its video memory needs. This creates shared
memory, where your computer’s RAM will be shared between its own Processor
(CPU) and its graphics chip.
The result is that some systems will have
shared memory, some will not. If you have 2GB (for example) of system
memory installed, you may notice that your system reports significantly less
memory. This is because your system is using shared memory for your
video.
What can you do about this?
You can actually configure this shared memory through your computer’s BIOS
settings. However, this is a setting best left alone, since it is
typically optimized for display performance, and making changes may impact
display resolutions, and other video capabilities.
The simplest solution is usually to either:
increase your system memory; or to upgrade the video hardware. By
upgrading to a new video card with built-in video memory, then turning off
shared memory, you will free your system to use it's maximum potential
memory, and provide your system with much more robust video features.
How Much
Memory Do You Really Have?
When you look at the specifications for a computer, it will display the
installed memory, and typically the maximum memory that can be installed.
However, while these are real values, they represent a potential useable
memory. The actual useable memory may be different from these values.
The reason is simply that a computer may configured to use shared memory,
which reduces the amount of RAM that is available to the CPU by using
some of it for other purposes, such as for video memory. In some
cases, you can control the maximum useable memory through system settings,
and by upgrading to a video card that has internal onboard video memory.
But always
remember, that the amount of memory that your system reports, is not always
the amount of actual installed memory. If you find that you need more
memory, we suggest expanding your system memory, since this is the most
effective performance increase, and the one that is easiest to perform .
Microsoft®
Windows® XP Professional delivers the new standard in reliability and performance.
This operating system is designed for businesses of all sizes and for users
who demand the most from their computing experience.
By building
on the proven Windows® 2000 operating system, Windows® XP Professional
delivers a reliable foundation you can count on to keep your computer
up and running when you need it most. Not only is Windows® XP more reliable,
it also helps you more easily recover from system problems.
Windows®
XP Professional is built on the core software code used in Windows® 2000
and Windows NT® Workstation. This code, known as the NT kernel, makes
Windows® XP more powerful, secure, and stable than Windows® Me, Windows®
98, or Windows® 95. If you’ve used those systems in the past, you’ll notice
a dramatic advantage: even if a program crashes, in most cases your computer
will keep running.
Computers
running Windows® XP Professional outperform Windows® 98 Second Edition,
and meet the performance of Windows® 2000 on commercial benchmarks. Not
only will Windows® XP launch applications faster, in most cases, your
entire system will start up much more quickly.
Windows®
XP Professional includes a wide range of features that make it easier
to solve technical issues so you can focus your time and energy on your
work, not your computer.
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HP xw4550 RB510UT AMD Workstation PC - AMD Opteron Dual Core 1212 2.0GHz, 2GB DDR2, 2x250 GB SATA, DVD-RW Lightscribe, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290, Windows XP Professional, Vista Business Upgrade
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