HP C8000
Overview
Time of introduction: 2004
The c8000 is the latest (and probably last) PA-RISC powered HP workstation. It is driven by one or two dual-core PA-8800 Mako processors (also/later offered with PA-8900 CPUs) and features an impressive array of system and I/O options. The heart of the system is the HP zx1 chipset, which also supports Itanium processors. There apparently is an upgrade path to Intel/HP Itanium (IA64) processors. The system is build in a very sleek, silent tower casing and is also available as a rack-mount option.
Internals
CPU
- 1-2 (two-core) PA-8800 900MHz-1GHz with 1.5MB/1.5MB on-chip I/D L1 cache and 32MB off-chip L2 cache each
or - 1-2 (two-core) PA-8900 800MHz-1.1GHz with 1.5MB/1.5MB on-chip I/D L1 cache and 64MB off-chip L2 cache each
It is supposedly possible to upgrade the CPUs to Itanium/IA64 processors, since the integrated system chipset (zx1) chipset can support IA64 processors too.
Chipset
- HP zx1 Chipset (same as in Itanium systems)
- 8MB Flash EEPROM
- Two-channel Ultra-320 SCSI controller
- UltraATA-133 IDE controller
Buses
- Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus 6.4GB/s
- Two independent zx1 memory buses, 266MHz, each 4.25GB/s — aggregate 8.5GB/s memory bandwidth
- Seven zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 3.5GB/s
- AGP 8x graphics bus
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O bus
- PCI-X 64/66 I/O bus
- PCI 64/33 I/O bus
- PCI 32/33 I/O bus
- SCSI-3 Ultra320 (LVD) storage I/O bus
- UltraATA-133 IDE secondary storage I/O bus
Memory
- PC2100 registered ECC DDR266 SDRAM DIMMs
- Takes up to 4GB modules
- Eight slots
- 32GB maximum
- 8.5GB/s memory bandwidth
- 80ns memory latency
Expansion
- One PCI-X 64-bit/133MHz slot, full-length
- Two PCI-X 64-bit/66MHz slots, full-length
- One PCI 64-bit/33MHz slot, full-length
- Two PCI 32-bit/33MHz slots, half-length
- All PCI slots are 3.3V
- One AGP Pro 8x slot (150W max power with auxiliary power connector)
- I/O slot layout (from top to bottom):
- PCI-32/33, short PCI cards
- PCI-32/33, short PCI cards
- AGP-8X pro
- PCI-64/33, short and full-length cards
- PCI-64/66, short and full-length cards
- PCI-64/66, short and full-length cards
- PCI-64/133, short and full-length cards
Drives
- Up to four internal 3.5″ bays for Ultra320 LVD SCSI hard drives with 68-pin connector
- Up to two internal 3.5″ bays for UltraATA-133 IDE hard drives
- Three half-heigth 5.25″ bays for externally accessible SCSI (LVD or SE) or UltraATA-133 drives
External Connectors
- Two DB9 male RS232C serial
- Five USB 2.0 ports (two in front, three in rear)
- TP/RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet
- Four phone jacks (microphone, headphones, line-in and line-out) on optional 16-bit audio card
References
- HP Workstation c8000 Technical Reference Guide (PDF, 2.7MB)
- HP c8000 data sheet (PDF, 400KB)
Operating Systems
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp | SPEC2000 rate, int |
SPEC2000 rate, fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C8000 | 1001 (est.) |
Compare these with other results on the Benchmarks page.
Physical dimensions/Power
- 490×287×572 mm height/width/depth
- Rack-mounted: 5U height, 424×572 mm width/depth
- 18.6kg net weight, 21.4kg fully loaded
- 871W max. power input (410W typical
workstation configuration
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