HP Z220 Computer S00238718 Motherboard architecture: The HP Z220 is on the socket 1155 LGA. It is an Intel motherboard supporting Intel CPUs. It has 4 DIMM slots with slot 1 and 3 being filled with DDR3, 1600MHz RAM. The motherboard has a NVidia Quadro 600 graphics card in its PCIe x16 slot. Another expansion card is below it with two more free PCIe slots below. A single USB 3.0 and another USB slot is connected to the motherboard CPU architecture: The CPU architecture is DMI. We know this as there’s only one CPU in this system as the selection option is greyed out in CPU-Z.. The “Rated FSB” option is also greyed out meaning this is a PC, not a server. It’s a 2nd gen intel i3 which is a budget option. It is on 32 nm process node. EM64T and VT-x Cloud Computing technologies are supported by the instruction set. The chipsets’ codename is “Sandy Bridge”. It has a thermal design power of 65 watts. The CPU socket is 1155 LGA. CPU speeds: The speed of the Intel Core i3 2120 goes up to 3.3GHz. The multiplier range is 16x-33x as the core speed is 100MHz~ (99.8MHz). The lowest speed is 1.6GHz. The CPU has no FSB. The processor has 2 cores and 4 threads. This means each core can go as fast as 3.3GHz each. Each core has two threads as hyperthreading is enabled. PCI express (types and speed): There are different types of PCI express such as: PCIe V1: 250MB/s, 20% loss, 10b/12b encoding PCIe V2: 500MB/s, 20% loss, 10b,12b encoding PCIe V3: 1GB/s, 2% loss, 128/130b encoding PCIe V4: 2GB/s, 2% loss, 128/130b encoding PCIe V5: 4GB/s, 2% loss, 128/130b encoding RAM: The RAM on the HP Z220 PC is DDR3. There is a total of 16GB of RAM installed on the system. The RAM speed is 1600MHz, to get this value you divide the PC3-12800 value by 8. The voltage of this DDR3 ram is 1.5 volts. The RAM is installed on slot 3 and 1, which puts it in dual rank mode. This allows the RAM to be theoretically 100% faster but in reality it’s only 515% faster. Cloud Computing/Virtualization: Cloud Computing is possible on this system as in the instruction box of the Intel Core i3 2120 “EM64-T” and “VT-x” are both listed. This system supports 64 bit VMs. Hyperthreading is enabled on the CPU as for every core there are two threads. We can see this in CPU-Z, 2 cores, 4 threads. Q1. PC or Server: The Intel Core i3 2120 is a PC. It has only one processor as the option to choose a different processor is greyed out in CPU-Z.. As we have gathered from above this processor runs on DMI. Q2. Intel or AMD CPU: This is an Intel CPU. We can tell this from the name “Intel Core i3 2120”, we can also tell from the picture provided on CPU-Z showing “Intel inside” and lastly we can tell from CPU-Z chipset and southbridge info boxes that it is indeed Intel. Q3. Intel or AMD motherboard: The motherboard is Intel as the processor is Intel and the computer wouldn’t boot otherwise. The socket as we see from CPU-Z is 1155 LGA which is Intel only.
