Pros
- Has plenty of expansion room
Cons
- Bundled LCD monitor lacks DVI
At A Glance
Reasonably priced business tower is feature rich. Multiformat DVD burner has HP's LightScribe disc labeling.
The Specs
| Pricing | |
|---|---|
| Inventory Number | 24443 |
| Processor | |
| Processor type | Athlon 64 4000+ |
| Processor speed | 2400.0 MHz |
| Memory | |
| Memory size | 1024.0 MB |
| Display | |
| Included monitor | No |
| Display size | 17.0 inches |
| Monitor model number | HP vs17 |
| Display type | LCD |
| Graphics | |
| Primary Graphics Chipset | Nvidia GeForce 6800 |
| Video Bus | PCI Express |
| Storage | |
| Raid type | none |
| Drive size | 400.0 GB |
| Other storage | Five-in-one media-card reader |
| Expansion slots | |
| Open PCI Express X16 Slots | 0.0 |
| Open PCI Express X1 Slots | 0.0 |
| Number of PCI slots | 5.0 |
| Number of PCI-Express Slots | 1.0 |
| Green | |
| Energy Star compliant | 0.0 |
| Optical Drive | |
| Optical Drive Speed | 16.0 |
| Optical Drive Type | DVD-ROM |
| Second Optical Drive Speed | 16.0 |
| Second Optical Drive Type | DVD+R DL/DVD±RW |
| Included Drives | 1 |
| Included Software | |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows XP Home |
| Ports and Connections | |
| Ethernet Type | Ethernet (10/100 Mbps) |
| Five-in-one media-card reader | 1 |
| Available Interfaces |
|
| Slots | 4 |
| Parallel Port | Yes |
| Case | |
| Chassis style | Tower (Midsize) |
| Internal Drive Bays | 3 |
| External Drive Bays | 4 |
Performance
| Overall Rating | |
|---|---|
| World Bench 5 Score | 101 |
| World Bench 5 Word Score | Good |
| Office Productivity | |
|---|---|
| Mozilla | 348 |
| Multitasking | 639 |
| WinZip | 374 |
| Microsoft Office XP | 532 |
| Content Creation | |
|---|---|
| ACD Systems ACDSee | 508 |
| Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL | 295 |
| Adobe Photoshop | 332 |
| Discreet 3ds Max DirectX | 259 |
| Windows Media Encoder | 393 |
| Ahead Nero | 448 |
| Musicmatch Jukebox | 461 |
| Adobe Premiere | 384 |
| Roxio VideoWave | 309 |
| Gaming | |
|---|---|
| Overall Graphics Score | Superior |
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 139.47 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 143.37 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit | 150.57 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Unreal Tournament, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 247.34 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 343.95 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit | 381.75 Frames per second (higher is better) |
