SUPER MICRO Computer 6025B-3R user manual Serverboard Features, Processors, Memory, Onboard SAS

SUPERSERVER 6025B-3/6025B-3R User's Manual

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At the heart of the SuperServer 6025B-3/6025B-3R lies the X7DB3, a dual processor serverboard based on the Intel 5000P chipset and designed to provide maximum performance. Below are the main features of the X7DB3. (See Figure 1-1 for a block diagram of the 5000P chipset).

Processors

The X7DB3 supports single or dual Intel® quad-core Xeon® 5400/5300 Sequence processors or dual-core Xeon 5000/5100 Sequence processors at a FSB speed of 1333/1066/667 MHz. Please refer to the serverboard description pages on our web site for a complete listing of supported processors (www.supermicro.com).

Memory

The X7DB3 has eight 240-pin DIMM slots that can support up to 32 GB of FBD (Fully Buffered DIMMs) ECC DDR2-667/533 SDRAM. The memory operates in a 2-way interleaved configurations and requires requires modules of the same size and speed to be installed in pairs (two at a time). See Section 5-5 for details.

Onboard SAS

An onboard Adaptec AIC-9410 SAS controller in integrated into the X7DB3, which supports eight SAS hard drives. The SAS drives are connected to a backplane that provides power, bus termination and configuration settings. The SAS drives are hot-swappable units.

Note: The operating system you use must have RAID support to enable the hot-swap capability and RAID function of the SAS drives. RAID 0, 1 and 10 are supported.

PCI Expansion Slots

The X7DB3 has six PCI expansion slots, which includes two x8 PCI-Express slots, one x4 PCI-Express slot, two 64-bit 133 MHz PCI-X slots and one 64-bit 100 MHz PCI-X slot. The 100 MHz PCI slot supports Zero Channel RAID.

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