Intel SE8500HW4 1.1Board Set Features

Product Overview Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4

This document describes the Mainboard and Memory Board components of the Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4.

Figure 1. Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4, Populated

1.1Board Set Features

This chapter discusses the features for the Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4, which includes:

ƒUp to four 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ Processors MP with 1MB L2 cache or 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ Processors MP with up to 8MB L3 cache

ƒIntel® E8500 Chipset:

-Intel® E8500 Chipset North Bridge (NB): provides two processor buses and connection to I/O and memory subsystems

-Intel® E8500 eXtended Memory Bridge (XMB): provides hot-plug support for up to 64GB of DDR2 memory

-Intel® 6700 PXH 64-bit PCI Hub: provides support for PCI-X* I/O

-Intel® IOP332 Storage I/O Processor : provides support for PCI-X adapters and contains Intel® XScale™ technology to support optional RAID On Motherboard (ROMB)

-Intel® 81801EB I/O Controller Hub 5 (ICH5): provides support for the system BIOS, video, USB 2.0, and Serial ATA (SATA).

ƒAdvanced I/O slots including PCI Express* and PCI-X and support circuits:

-One hot-plug PCI Express x8 slot

-Three hot-plug PCI Express x4 slots

-One hot-plug 64-bit PCI-X 133MHz, 1.0 slot

-Two 64-bit PCI-X 100MHz, 1.0 slots (not hot-plug)

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