Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4Product Overview

Table of Contents

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Product Overview.................................................................................................................

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1.1

Board Set Features..................................................................................................

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2.

Processor and Chipset ........................................................................................................

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2.1

Processors Supported .............................................................................................

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2.1.1

Heat Sink .................................................................................................................

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2.1.2

Installation Order .....................................................................................................

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2.2

Intel® E8500 Chipset................................................................................................

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2.2.1

North Bridge (NB) ....................................................................................................

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2.2.2

eXtended Memory Bridge (XMB) .............................................................................

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2.2.3

Intel® IOP332 Storage I/O Processor.......................................................................

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2.2.4

Intel® 82801EB I/O Controller Hub 5 (ICH5) ............................................................

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2.2.5

Intel® 6700 PXH 64-bit Hub (PXH)..........................................................................

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3.

I/O Subsystems ..................................................................................................................

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3.1

PCI Subsystem ......................................................................................................

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3.1.1

PCI Interrupts.........................................................................................................

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3.1.2

PCI IDSEL Signal ..................................................................................................

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3.1.3

Bus Arbitration Signals ..........................................................................................

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3.1.4

Wake On LAN........................................................................................................

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3.1.5

PCI Hot Plug* Support ...........................................................................................

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3.2

Ultra320 SCSI Subsystem .....................................................................................

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3.3

Intel® RAID On Motherboard (ROMB) ..................................................................

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3.3.1

Intel® RAID Activation Key (RAK) ..........................................................................

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3.3.2

DDR2 RAID DIMM.................................................................................................

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3.3.3

Intel® RAID Smart Battery (RSB) ...........................................................................

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3.4

Gigabit Ethernet.....................................................................................................

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3.5

Serial ATA (SATA).................................................................................................

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3.6

Fibre Channel ........................................................................................................

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3.7

Firmware Hubs ......................................................................................................

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3.8

Video......................................................................................................................

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3.9

USB 2.0 .................................................................................................................

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3.10

Serial......................................................................................................................

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4. Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Memory Board ......................................................

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