Intel® Server Platform SR6850HW4 TPS

System Overview

2.5Internal Chassis Features

2.5.1Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard

The Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard supports the following features:

ƒFour sockets for 64-bit Intel Xeon processors MP with 1MB L2 cache or 64-bit Intel Xeon processors with up to 8MB L3 cache

ƒFour PCI Express* x16 Memory Board connectors

-Four independent memory interface buses

-Supports hot-remove and hot-add operations

ƒDual 667 MT/s Front Side Buses (FSB)

ƒIntel E8500 chipset North Bridge (NB) with two shared 64-bit FSB interfaces configured for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)

ƒIntel E8500 chipset eXtended Memory Bridge (XMB) for support of memory hot-plug

ƒIntel® 6700 PXH 64-bit Hub which acts as the bridge between the NB and PCI-X bus

ƒIntel® 82801EB I/O Controller Hub 5 (ICH5) which provides USB 2.0 and SATA

ƒIntel® IOP332 storage I/O Processor for mass storage and PCI-X slots

ƒLSI Logic* 53C1030 Ultra320* SCSI Controller: provides two independent Ultra320 SCSI interfaces

ƒBroadcom* BRCM5704 NetXtreme* Gigabit Ethernet controller: provides two ports on the rear of the Mainboard

ƒATI* Radeon* 7000 video controller

-16MB embedded SDRAM

-Mirrored to both the rear and front I/O ports by default

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 slot

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

ƒButtons and LED indicators for PCI hot-plug slots

ƒLow Pin Count (LPC) Super I/O* enables the serial port/EMP

ƒUSB 2.0 support

-Two ports at the rear of chassis

-Three ports on front of the chassis

ƒ4MB Flash capacity to support rolling BIOS updates

ƒOptional ROMB support: provides two channels of RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or 50

ƒOptional custom Fibre Channel Module: provides two optical connectors

ƒServer management support via the Intel Management Module (IMM) connector

See the Intel Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Technical Product Specification for a description of this board.

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