Getting Started With Your System 9
Technical Specifications
Processor
Processor type Two Intel
®
Xeon
®
processors 5500 series
Expansion Bus
Bus type PCI Express Generation 2
Expansion slots using riser cards
NOTE: Depending on the configuration, your system may have either riser 1 or riser 2.
Riser 1
OR
Riser 2
Slot 1: PCIe x4, half-length, full-height
Slot 2: PCIe x4, full-length, full-height
Slot 3: PCIe x8, half-length, full-height
Slot 4: PCIe x4, internal slot for integrated card
NOTE: All four slots are x8 connectors.
Slot 1: PCIe x16, full-length, full-height
Slot 2: PCIe x4, internal for integrated card
NOTE: A General Purpose Computation on
Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) optimized
configuration is available on riser 2.
Memory
Architecture 1066 or 1333 MHz DDR3 registered or
unbuffered Error Correcting Code (ECC)
DIMMs
Memory module sockets Eight 240-pin
Memory module capacities
Four–hard-drive systems
Eight–hard-drive systems
Twelve–hard-drive systems
1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB
1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, or 8 GB
1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, or 8 GB
Minimum RAM 1 GB with a single processor
(1 DIMM per processor)
Maximum RAM
Four–hard-drive systems
Eight–hard-drive systems
Twelve–hard-drive systems
32 GB
64 GB (8 GB dual- and quad-rank DIMMs)
64 GB (8 GB dual- and quad-rank DIMMs)