Overview - NEC Express5800 User Manual

2-2 General Description

OVERVIEW

Your server is a modular, multiprocessing server based on the Intel® Xeon® processor family. It is
a solid performer and offers the latest technology. The combination of compute performance,
memory capacity, and integrated I/O provides a high performance environment for many server
market applications. These range from large corporations supporting remote offices to small
companies looking to obtain basic connectivity capability such a file and print services, e-mail, web
access, web site server, etc. Your server is housed and available as a tower-based system.
As application requirements increase, you can expand your server with an additional memory,
add-in boards and peripheral devices; tape devices, and hard disk drives. The server features the
following major components.
Intel® Xeon® processor
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Up to 192GB of memory (using 16GB DIMMs)
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Minimum configuration is 2GB of memory
Dual channel memory configuration
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Six integrated I/O expansion PCI slots for add-in boards (four PCI Express (x8) slots, one
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PCI Express (x4) slot and one 32-bit/33 MHz slot)
Onboard RAID Controller
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Onboard 1000/100/10 network controller
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Four hard disk drives in 3.5-inch disk cage or eight hard disk drives in 2.5-inch disk cage
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Embedded PC-compatible support (serial, parallel, mouse, keyboard, USB, LAN, and
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video)
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