The Pavilion a1723w is a desktop PC introduced by HP in 2006. The a1723w does have room for expansion; however, like most PCs the upgrades possible are highly dependent on the motherboard.
Board Manufacturer
The a1723w comes standard with a motherboard manufactured by ASUS. The motherboard is referred to as the P5LP-LE by ASUS and the Leonite-GL8E by HP.
Memory
The a1723w has four DIMM slots available for memory upgrades. It specifically requires DDR2 SDRAM PC2-4200. The motherboard only supports a maximum of 4 GBs of RAM, 1 GB stick per slot.
Expansion Slots
The motherboard has three standard PCI expansion slots for peripherals such as wireless network cards and modems. For graphics cards one PCI-E 16x is available.
Processor
The a1723w comes installed with an Intel Pentium D processor. The processor is dual core and has a clock speed of 2.8 GHz. The socket on the motherboard for processor upgrades is socket 775.
Integrated Devices
The a1723w comes equipped with standard integrated devices built into the motherboard. It has Intel integrated graphics, a 10/100 network interface card and a Realtek high-definition audio chipset.
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