Specifications
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Following are the specifications for the 9715 Server motherboard R1.

Feature Specification
Processor Support Up to four 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ Processors MP with 1 MB L2 cache or 64-bit Intel Xeon Processors MP with up to 8 MB L3 cache
Chipset Intel E8500 Chipset consisting of:
  • Intel E8500 Chipset North Bridge (NB): provides two processor buses and connection to I/O and memory subsystems
  • Intel E8500 eXtended Memory Bridge (XMB): provides hot plug support for up to 64 GB of DDR2 memory
  • Intel 6700 PXH 64-bit PCI Hub: provides support for PCI-X I/O
  • Intel IOP332 Storage I/O Processor: provides support for PCI-X adapters and contains Intel XScale™ technology to support optional RAID On Motherboard (ROMB)
  • Intel 81801EB I/O Controller Hub 5 (ICH5): provides support for the system BIOS, video, USB 2.0, and Serial ATA (SATA)
Memory Intel E8500 eXtended Memory Bridge (XMB): provides support for up to four Memory Boards with enhanced performance and reliability features
  • Each Memory Board has four DIMM slots
  • Hot plug support for up to 64 GB of DDR2 400MHz memory
  • Supports ECC registered DDR2 DIMMs
PCI device/slot
  • One hot plug PCI Express ×8 slot
  • Three hot plug PCI Express ×4 slots
  • One hot plug 64-bit PCI-X 133 MHz, 1.0 slot
  • Two 64-bit PCI-X 100 MHz, 1.0 slots (not hot plug)
    • Video ATI® Radeon™ 7000 video controller with 16 MB SDRAM
    • 2D/3D video accelerator
    • Dual digital-to-analog converters (DAC) for integrated, cost effective multi-panel support
    • Resolutions from VGA to UXGA (1600 × 1200)
    • 16 MB SDRAM video memory
    • 32-bit/33 MHz PCI host interface
    RAID Optional RAID on motherboard (ROMB) support provides two channels of RAID 0, 5, 10, or 50
    • Support provided by the Intel IOP332 I/O processor in conjunction with the LSI® Logic™ 53C1030
    • Intel RAID Activation Key (RAK) and DDR2 400 MHz DIMM must be installed
    • Optional Intel RAID Smart Battery (RSB) can be installed to preserve the contents of the DIMM if power drops below specifications.
    LAN Broadcom® BCM5704 NetXtreme™ Gigabit Ethernet controller: provides two ports on the rear of the motherboard
    SCSI LSI Logic® 53C1030 Ultra320 SCSI Controller: provides two independent Ultra320 SCSI interfaces
    ACPI ACPI compliance
    Supports S0, S1, and S5 states
    AC Input Power 12 V and 3.3 V standby; all other required voltages are generated by Voltage Regulator Down (VRD) circuits and Voltage Regulator Modules (VRMs) on the motherboard.

    Component Target Velocity Target Ambient Temp Specification
    Processors See processor's thermal specification
    Sockets 400 ifm 50° C 100° C, Tsocket
    Cache VRD 400 ifm 50° C 90° C, Tsink at maximum
    Core VRD 400 ifm 50° C 90° C, Tsink at maximum
    North Bridge 400 ifm 50° C 105° C, THIS
    PXH 400 ifm 50° C 105° C, Tdie
    XMB 400 ifm 50° C 105° C, Tcase
    Intel IOP332 Storage I/O Processor 400 ifm 50° C 105° C, Tdie
    ICH5 400 ifm 50° C 85° C, Tcase
    LSI 53C1030 SCSI 400 ifm 50° C 85° C, Tcase
    ATI Radeon 7000 video 400 ifm 50° C 85° C, Tcase
    Broadcom BCM5704 Ethernet 400 ifm 50° C 105° C, Tdie
    DDR2 400 MHz RAID DIMM 400 ifm 50° C 85° C, Tcase
    Motherboard 400 ifm 50° C 100° C, Tboard