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Aspire M5300

The Aspire M5300 sports a classy brushed-metal exterior that will bring digital chic to any room of your house. What's more, this desktop comes stacked with a powerful AMD processor, top-level graphics and a host of cool, practical features to fulfill all your entertainment and everyday computing needs.
  • Phenomenal power
  • A choice of vigorous AMD Phenom™ II processors, up to 8 GB of DDR3 memory and second-generation PCI Express® deliver beautiful entertainment and efficient multitasking. A multi-in-one card reader and 10 USB ports make it easy to manipulate and share your files. As much as 1.5 TB of hard drive space gives you ample room to keep all you want.
  • Dolby Home Theater
  • The Aspire M5300 delivers true theater-like imagery and sound via high-end graphics card support, Optimized 3rd Generation Dolby Home Theater®, optical S/PDIF support, and 7.1-channel high-definition audio. And with the TV-tuner option, you can catch your favorite shows on your PC too.
  • Cool design
  • The Aspire M5300's streamlined appearance is accented by a transparent vertical side strip through which colored LEDs shine. A number of ports are positioned atop this PC for easy access. Also on top is a covered storage compartment for cables and other items. And with a light push, the front of the top deck pops up to reveal the nicely concealed card reader slots.
Operating System
  • Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
  • Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic
Chipset
  • AMD RX780+SB710 Chipset
Processor
  • AMD Phenom™ II X4 quad-core processor
  • AMD Phenom™ II X3 triple-core processor
  • AMD Phenom™ II X2 dual-core processor
  • AMD Athlon™ II X2 dual-core processor
System Memory
  • Up to 8 GB DDR3 1066 MHz SDRAM (dual-channel support on four DIMMs)
Hard Drives
  • Serial ATA hard disk up to 1.5 TB
Optical Devices
  • SuperMulti DVD-RW
  • Combo Blu-ray ROM / DVD-RW
  • Blu-ray RE
Card Reader
  • Multi-in-1 card reader, supporting: CompactFlash® (Type I and II), CF+™ Microdrive, MMCplus™ (8-bit), MMCmobile™ (8-bit), MultiMediaCard (MMC), Reduced-Size MultiMediaCard (RS-MMC), Secure Digital™ (SD) Card, miniSD™ Card, microSD™, xD-Picture Card™, Memory Stick™, Memory Stick PRO™, Memory Stick Duo™, Memory Stick PRO Duo™, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo™, Memory Stick Micro™ (M2)
Graphics
  • Discrete card offering a choice of ATI Radeon or nVidia VGA solutions
TV-tuner card
  • Optional hybrid analog and digital TV-tuner card supporting software MPEG-2 stream encoding
Audio
  • Optimized 3rd Generation Dolby Home Theater®4 audio enhancement, featuring Dolby® Digital Live, Dolby® Pro Logic® IIx, Dolby® Headphone, Dolby® Natural Bass, Dolby® Sound Space Expander, Dolby® Audio Optimization, Dolby® High Frequency Enhancer technologies
  • Embedded high-definition audio with 7.1-channel surround sound support
Networking
  • Gigabit Ethernet, Wake-on-LAN ready
  • Optional WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g/n-draft
I/O Interface
  • Front:
  • Four USB 2.0 ports, Multi-in-1 card reader, High-definition headphone and microphone jacks
  • Rear:
  • Four USB 2.0 ports, IEEE 1394 port (6-pin), PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports, Ethernet (RJ-45) port, Six audio ports, all display ports on the graphics card
  • S/PDIF module:
  • Optical S/PDIF port, Two USB 2.0 ports
Expansion Slots
  • PCI Express® 2.0 x16 slot
  • PCI Express® 2.0 x1 slot
  • Two PCI v2.3 (5 V) slots
Power supply
  • 500W
Housing Dimension
  • 180 (W) x 443 (D) x 373 (H) mm
Software
  • Acer eRecovery Management, Acer GameZone, Acer Arcade™ Deluxe, Microsoft® Office 2007 Trial with Microsoft® Works, eSobi™, McAfee® Internet Security Suite Trial, Adobe® Reader®, CyberLink® PowerDirector™4 DE, CyberLink® MediaShow™ DEX, MyWinLocker®, NTI Media Maker™
EMI / Safety
  • FCC, CE, BSMI, CCC, MET, CB (Nemko)