5 internal chassis features – Intel SR6850HW4 User Manual

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Intel® Server Platform SR6850HW4 TPS

System Overview

Revision 1.0

Intel order number D23151-001

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2.5 Internal Chassis Features

2.5.1

Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard

The Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard supports the following features:

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

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Four PCI Express* x16 Memory Board connectors
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Four independent memory interface buses

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Supports hot-remove and hot-add operations

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Dual 667 MT/s Front Side Buses (FSB)

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

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

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Intel

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

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Intel

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

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Intel

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

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

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

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ATI* Radeon* 7000 video controller
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16MB embedded SDRAM

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

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Advanced I/O slots including PCI Express and PCI-X and support circuits:
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One hot-plug PCI Express x8 slot

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Three hot-plug PCI Express x4 slots

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

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

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Buttons and LED indicators for PCI hot-plug slots

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

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USB 2.0 support
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Two ports at the rear of chassis

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Three ports on front of the chassis

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4MB Flash capacity to support rolling BIOS updates

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

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Optional custom Fibre Channel Module: provides two optical connectors

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Server 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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