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Intel® Nehalem-EP

Mainboard Features and Support.

Feature Description
• Processors Support for one or two Intel® Xeon® processor(s) (Intel® Nehalem-EP Processor) in an FCLGA 1366
  Socket B package with up to130 W Thermal Design Power (TDP)
• 4.8 GT/s, 5.86 GT/s and 6.4 GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)
• EVRD11.1

Memory Six memory channels (three channels per processor socket) with support for 800/166/1333MT/s ECC Registered (RDIMM) or Unbuffered (UDIMM) DDR3 memory. There is no support for mixing of RDIMMs and UDIMMs.
• Twelve DIMM slots
• Two DIMM slots per channel

Chipset
Intel® 82801Jx I/O Controller Hub (ICH10R) I/O Control External connections
• RJ-45 serial Port A connector
• Two RJ-45/2xUSB connectors for 10/100/1000 Mb and USB 2.0 support
• One Audio/1394 connector for 7.1 channel audio and IEEE1394a support

Internal Connections
• One 2x5 pin internal video header
• Two USB 2x5 pin headers, each supporting two USB 2.0 ports
• One low-profile USB 2x5 pin header to support a low-profile Intel® Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive (SSD)
• One USB Port Type A connector with USB 2.0 support
• One DH-10 Serial Port B header
• Up to six SATA II connectors
• One SAS module connector
• One mezzanine support for optional Intel® Remote Management Module 3
• One 2x5 pin front panel Audio header
• One 3-pin S/PDIF header
• One 2x5 pin front panel 1394 header
• SATA Software 5 Activation Key Connector
• One SSI-EEB compliant front panel header
• One SSI-EEB compliant 24-pin main power connector
• Two SSI compliant 8-pin CPU power connectors
• One SSI compliant auxiliary power connector

Optional Add-in PCI, PCI Express Cards
• Slot 4 and Slot 6: One full-length/full-height PCI Express Gen2 x16 (x16 throughput) slot
• Slot 3: One full-length/full-height PCI Express Gen1 x4 (x1 throughput) slot
• Slot 2: One full-length/full-height PCI Express Gen1 x8 (x4 throughput) slot, shared with SAS module Mezzanine
  slot
• Slot 1: One 5-V 32-bit/33-MHz PCI slot

Hard Drive Support for up to six SATA II hard drives through six on-board SATA II connectors
Support for up to four SAS hard drives through an optional SAS module card. 

LAN Two 10/100/1000 Intel® 82575 PHYs (Zoar)

Video Onboard ServerEngines LLC Pilot II BMC controller
Integrated 2D video controller  32 MB DDR2 memory

One internal video header, no external video header

Audio Realtek ALC889 7.1 channels, high-definition audio codec with universal audio architecture (24-bit, 10-channel DAC, three stereo 24-bit ADCs, S/PDIF output)

Firewire*1394 On-board Texas Instruments* TSB43AB22A capable of transferring data at 100M bits/s, 200M bits/s, and 400M bits/s

Fans Support for two 4-pin processor fans, four 6-pin front hot-swap system fans, and one 4-pin rear system fan

Server Management On-board Server Engines LLC Pilot II Controller

Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (Integrated BMC), IPMI 2.0 compliant

Integrated Super I/O on LPC interface


Support for Intel® Server Management Software 3.0

Page 0 - Introduction
Page 1 - Mainboard and Pictures
Page 2 - Mainboard (continued) and Build Pictures
Page 3 - System Set-Up and
Benchmarks Used
Page 4 -
Sandra 2009 SP2
Page 5 -
Everest 5 Ultimate
Page 6 - ATI FirePro V8700 - Cinebench and
POV Ray 3.71 Beta
Page 7 -
ATI FirePro V8700 - 3DS Max 2009 Scenes
Page 8 -
ATI FirePro V8700 - SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™ & SPECviewperf® 10.0
Page 9 -
NVIDIA Quadro® FX4800 - Cinebench and POV Ray 3.71 Beta
Page 10 -
NVIDIA Quadro® FX4800 - 3DS Max 2009 Scenes
Page 11 -
NVIDIA Quadro® FX4800 - SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™ & SPECviewperf® 10.0
Page 12 - Conclusions and Awards

Bonus01 - *Exclusive* Introducing the ATI FirePro V7750
Bonus02 - *Exclusive* Introducing the NVIDIA Quadro FX3800

 

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