New Compaq; Workstation Ap400; Professional Workstation Ap400; Intel Pentium - Compaq Deskpro AP400 Supplementary Manual

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The Compaq Professional Workstation AP400 is a powerful, industry standard
workstation specifically designed for professionals using mainstream CAD/CAE
applications, applications found on the financial trading floor, mainstream digital
content creation, network management consoles applications, select EDA applications,
and software development applications.
Compaq Professional Workstations are backed by strong partnerships with leading ISVs
to provide highly integrated and optimized solutions, which can be confidently deployed
in the most demanding, business critical environments. The Compaq Professional
Workstation AP400 combines powerful industry standard components, strong
partnerships with leading ISVs, and traditional Compaq quality and reliability, giving
users the time-to-market advantage they need to succeed.
The AP400 features a slim, desktop form factor with tool-less entry and dimensions
identical to the Compaq Professional Workstation 5100 (5.0 x 19.9 x 17.5 in/12.7 x 50.5
x 44.5 cm). This small form factor is a key benefit for financial trading customers who
have very limited desk space.
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The Compaq Professional Workstation AP400 uses the newest Intel Pentium II 350-
MHz, 400-MHz and 450-MHz processors, featuring MMX technology and 100-MHz
Front Side Bus. The Front Side Bus is the processor-to-memory bus. Previous Pentium
II processors supported 66-MHz Front Side Bus. The Pentium II bus speeds have now
increased to 100-MHz Front Side Bus, which provides greater processor-to-memory
bandwidth and faster performance. Systems based on older versions of the Pentium II
processor were limited to 512 MB of maximum memory support. The Compaq
Professional Workstation AP400, with the new versions of the Pentium II processor, can
support up to 1 GB of maximum memory. Like the previous version of Pentium II
processor, the new processor ships as a single module that contains the CPU chip, the
cache tag, and the L2 cache packaged in a Single Edge Connect Cartridge (SECC).
The Intel Pentium II processor features 512 KB of integrated non-blocking L2 cache and
a dedicated 64-bit cache bus, which improves performance by reducing average memory
access time. The Pentium II processor's L2 cache scales with the processor core
frequency. Higher core frequencies will require a 100-MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), which
in turn will require a new chipset, memory, and system board. The faster system bus and
memory will significantly increase overall PC performance.
CUSTOMER BENEFITS
Major leaps in processor power. The Pentium II 350-MHz, 400-MHz and 450-
MHz processors provide a significant increase in processing power over
previous Intel processors. The new Pentium II 450-MHz processors deliver up to
a 28% performance boost over the Pentium II 350-MHz processors in certain
integer or multimedia benchmarks.
Improved overall system performance. Introduction of the new 100-MHz FSB
improves the overall performance of the PC system by enhancing the speed at
which data is transferred between the processor and other parts of the system.
Improved value. The new Pentium II processors deliver a great value by
delivering higher performance at an affordable price.
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