Released in 2007 with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $579.99 and running the Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, the eMachines T5224 is a desktop PC bundle from eMachines. This is a subsidiary of Taiwan-based computer technology company Acer Inc. that specializes in low-cost PCs. Gateway, also an Acer subsidiary, provided the T5224's motherboard, which is called the Gateway Coryville 945G.
Size, Chipset and Processor
Measuring 9.6 square inches (24.4 square centimeters), the eMachines T5224 motherboard, or Gateway Coryville 945G, uses the maximum size of the microATX -- or Micro Advanced Technology Extended -- form factor. Its 945G suffix stands for its Intel 945G chipset, which comprises the Intel 82945G graphics memory controller hub and Intel 82801GB input/output controller hub. The motherboard's Land Grid Array (LGA) 775 socket supports the Intel Pentium D 820, which has a 2.8-GHz processing speed, 800-MHz data bus speed and a 2-MB Level 2 cache (or secondary memory bank) for high-speed access to the desktop PC's most frequently used data.
System Memory
The eMachines T5224 motherboard offers two 240-pin Dual Inline Memory Module sockets, which are based on second-generation Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory architecture, or DDR2 SDRAM. The pre-installed memory is 512 MB on each DIMM socket for a combined total of 1 GB. Users, however, can expand it to 2 GB on each slot for a maximum RAM total of 4 GB. The memory access speed of the T5224 is set at 533 MHz, on a motherboard that also supports 400 MHz and 667 MHz.
Audio/Video and Expansion
Each eMachines T5224 motherboard provides a motherboard-integrated 6-channel (5.1) high-definition audio driver for its stereo audio. Video and graphics come from the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, which is also integrated onto the motherboard and uses up to 224 MB of RAM for video purposes. Two conventional Peripheral Component Interconnect slots, one PCI Express x1 slot and one PCI Express x16 slot are available for adding sound cards, dedicated graphics processing units or other types of expansion cards.
Connectivity
Each eMachines T5224 motherboard has an Intel 82562G Ethernet network adapter, which provides up to 100 megabits per second in data transfer, with an accompanying RJ-45 jack. Other peripheral interfaces that the motherboard offers include eight USB ports, two PS/2 ports for the computer keyboard and mouse, serial and parallel ports, four Serial Advanced Technology Attachment interfaces and one Parallel ATA Integrated Drive Electronics interface for attaching hard disk and CD/DVD drives, and a floppy disk drive connector.
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