Specifications
Part Number: 2906065RGateway FX542X Desktop Computer
Model: FX542X

Following are the specifications for the Gateway® FX542S computer.
Specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.

Feature Specification
Processor Intel® Core™2 Quad Q9300 Quad Core Processor
  • Each core operates at 2.50 GHz
  • 6 MB L2 cache
  • 1333 MHz front side bus
Chipset NVIDIA chipset consisting of the following:
  • Northbridge: 680i LT SLIC55
  • Southbridge: MCP55 chipset
Memory
  • Installed: 4096 MB DDR2, 800 MHz, (PC2-6400) dual channel memory (four 1024 MB modules)
  • Expandable to: 8 GB (4 DDR2 DIMM slots)
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    Hard Drives Two 500 GB 7200 RPM, SATA II hard drive (1 TB total hard drive storage)
    Support for up to three hard drives
    Optical Drive Blu-ray™ / HD DVD™ combination player and super multi-format DVD±RW dual layer drive (up to 8.5 GB using dual layer media)
    Media Card Reader 9-in-1 media manager with one USB 2.0 port and support for the following cards:
    • SecureDigital (SD)
    • MultiMedia Card (MMC)
    • SmartMedia (SM)
    • Memory Stick (MS)
    • Memory Stick Pro (MS Pro)
    • xD-Picture Card (xD)
    • CompactFlash (CF)
    • Microdrive
    Video NVIDIA GeForce® 9800GT video card
  • 512 MB video memory
  • DirectX® 10
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    Audio Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme sound card
    Ports:
    • Line In / Mic In jack
    • Front speaker line out jack
    • Side speaker line out jack
    • Center, Subwoofer line out jack (S6)
    • Rear speaker line out jack
    • Optical Out jack
    • Optical In jack
    Network Support Integrated 10/100/1000 Mbps (Gigabit) Ethernet LAN
    Dual RJ-45 NIC ports
    Add-In Card Slots
  • Two PCI Express ×16
  • One PCI Express ×4
  • One PCI Express ×1
  • One PCI Conventional
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    External Connectors
  • One PS/2 keyboard port
  • One PS/2 mouse port
  • Seven USB 2.0 ports (two front, one in media card reader, four rear)
  • Two IEEE 1394 ports (one front, one rear)
  • Two RJ-45 network ports
  • One S/PDIF digital audio out
  • Seven audio jacks (five rear, two font)
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    Drive Bays
  • Two external 5.25-inch bays
  • Two external 3.5-inch drive bay
  • Three internal 3.5-inch (hard drive) bays
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    Power Supply 700 watt
    Dimensions (H × W × D) 16.9 × 8.0 × 20.0 inches (429 × 203 × 508 mm)
    Weight 38 lbs (varies with configuration)