Intel SE8500HW4 Server User Manual


 
Product Overview Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4
Revision 1.0
Intel order number D22893-001
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This document describes the Mainboard and Memory Board components of the Intel
®
Server
Board Set SE8500HW4.
Figure 1. Intel
®
Server Board Set SE8500HW4, Populated
1.1 Board Set Features
This chapter discusses the features for the Intel
®
Server Board Set SE8500HW4, which
includes:
Up to four 64-bit Intel
®
Xeon™ Processors MP with 1MB L2 cache or 64-bit Intel
®
Xeon™ Processors MP with up to 8MB L3 cache
Intel
®
E8500 Chipset:
- Intel
®
E8500 Chipset North Bridge (NB): provides two processor buses and
connection to I/O and memory subsystems
- Intel
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E8500 eXtended Memory Bridge (XMB): provides hot-plug support for up to
64GB of DDR2 memory
- Intel
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6700 PXH 64-bit PCI Hub: provides support for PCI-X* I/O
- Intel
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IOP332 Storage I/O Processor : provides support for PCI-X adapters and
contains Intel
®
XScale™ technology to support optional RAID On Motherboard
(ROMB)
- Intel
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81801EB I/O Controller Hub 5 (ICH5): provides support for the system BIOS,
video, USB 2.0, and Serial ATA (SATA).
Advanced 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, 1.0 slot
- Two 64-bit PCI-X 100MHz, 1.0 slots (not hot-plug)