Chapter 1. Product overview
This chapter provides information about the computer features, specications, software programs provided
by Lenovo, and locations of connectors, components, parts on the system board, and internal drives.
Features
This section introduces the computer features. The information covers a variety of models.
To view the information about your specic model, do one of the following:
• Go into the Setup Utility program by following the instructions in Chapter 7 “Using the Setup Utility
program” on page 65. Then, select Main ➙ System Summary to view the information.
• In the Windows environment, click Start, right-click Computer, and select Properties to view the
information.
Microprocessor
Your computer comes with an Intel
®
Xeon
®
microprocessor. The processor speed, the number of the
available processor cores, and the internal cache vary by machine type.
Memory
Your computer supports up to eight DDR3 ECC UDIMMs (double data rate 3 error correction code
unbuffered dual inline memory modules) or DDR3 ECC RDIMMs (double data rate 3 error correction code
registered dual inline memory modules).
Internal drives
• Optical drive: DVD-ROM, DVD-R/W, or Blu-ray (optional)
• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drive
Note: To support SAS hard disk drives, an optional SAS hard disk drive enablement module or a
RAID-on-Chip (ROC) card is required.
• Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disk drive
• Solid state drive
Video subsystem
• Two Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express x16 graphics card slots on the system board for
discrete graphics cards
For more information, see “Locating parts on the system board” on page 11.
Audio subsystem
• Integrated high-denition (HD) audio
• Audio line-in connector, audio line-out connector, and microphone connector on the rear panel
• Microphone connector and headphone connector on the front panel
• Internal speaker
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