Specifications

NOTE: The following specifications are only those required by law to ship with your computer. For a complete and current listing of the specifications for your computer, go to support.dell.com.

Processor

Type

Intel® Xeon® Processor 3500 series

 

Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series

 

 

System Information

 

 

 

System chipset

Intel X58+ ICH10

Data bus width

64 bits

 

 

Video

 

 

 

Type:

 

Discrete

two PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots

 

NOTE: Support for discrete full height and 3/4 length graphics

 

option through PCIe x16 graphics card slot.

 

 

Drives

 

 

 

Externally accessible

one 3.5-inch drive bay (FlexBay)

 

two 5.25-inch drive bays

Internally accessible

two 3.5-inch SATA drive bays

 

NOTE: The platform can accommodate third and fourth

 

3.5-inch hard drives in the flex bay or the optical drive bay.

 

 

Controls and Lights

 

 

 

Front of the computer:

 

Power button

push button

Power light

amber light — Solid amber indicates a problem with an

 

installed device; blinking amber indicates an internal power

 

problem.

 

green light — Blinking green in sleep state; solid green for

 

power-on state.

Drive activity light

green light — A blinking green light indicates the computer

 

is reading data from or writing data to the SATA hard drive

 

or CD/DVD.

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Dell T3500 manual Specifications

T3500 specifications

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