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HP Visualize B2000 and B2600

Quick Facts
Introduced 2000
Period Maturity (III)
CPU 1 PA-8500 (B2000)
1 PA-8600 (B2600)
400-500 MHz
Cache 1.5 MB L1
RAM 4 GB
Design Astro
Drives 2 SCSI
1 FD
1 IDE
Expansion 4 PCI
Bandwidth ?
I/O 100E
VGA (B2000)
2 serial
parallel
2 USB
audio

These HP Visualize B-Class PA-RISC workstations from 2000 were aimed at the graphics workstations market, equipped with the 64-bit PA-8500 or PA-8600 processors with large on-chip L1 caches. The B2000 usually uses the PA-8500 in a small tower case whereas the B2600 is built in a desktop, featuring the PA-8600 CPU. The architecture was a major change from those of its predecessors, the C200 et al, now based on Astro/Elroy, new I/O devices and without the LASI I/O chip and GSC bus. All device I/O now is implemented by PCI buses, human I/O devices are connected to USB ports.

Model Number Introduced Price
B2000 9000/785 2000
C2600 9000/785 2000

System architecture

Processors

Model CPU Speed L1 Cache
B2000 PA-8500 300 MHz 512/1024 KB on-chip
B2600 PA-8600 500 MHz 512/1024 KB on-chip

Note there were some B2000s shipped with or upgraded to PA-8600 (PCXW+) processors.

Chipset

System buses

Memory

Expansion slots

Storage

External ports

Operating systems

Benchmarks

Model SPEC95, int SPEC95, fp SPEC95
rate, int
SPEC95
rate, fp
SPEC2000, int SPEC2000, fp SPEC2000
rate, int
SPEC2000
rate, fp
B2000 31.80 52.40 286 472 332 357 3.8 4.1
B2600 403 440 4.7 5.1

Dimensions

Model Height Width Depth Weight
B2000 445mm 229mm 495mm 21kg
B2600 127mm 425mm 457mm 20kg

References

Manuals

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