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Rackmount hardware (with screws):

Two (2) rack rail assemblies

Six (6) brackets for mounting the rack rails to a rack/telco rack

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One (1) CD-ROM containing drivers and utilities:

Intel LANDesk Client Manager

ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI graphics controller driver

LAN driver

SCSI driver

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Mainboard Features

At the heart of the SuperServer 6012P-6 lies the P4DPR-6GM+, a dual Intel Xeon

processor motherboard designed to provide maximum performance. Below

are the main features of the P4DPR-6GM+.

Chipset

The P4DPR-6GM+ is based on Intel's E7500 chipset, which is a high-perfor-

mance core logic chipset designed for dual-processor servers (See Figure 1-1).

The E7500 chipset consists of four major components: the Memory Controller

Hub (MCH), the I/O Controller Hub 3 (ICH3), the PCI-X 64-bit Hub 2.0 (P64H2) and

the 82808AA Host Channel Adapter (VxB).

The MCH has four hub interfaces, one to communicate with the ICH3 and three

for high-speed I/O communications. The MCH employs a 144-bit wide memory

bus for a PC1600 (DDR-200) memory interface, which provides a total bandwidth

of 3.2 GB/s. The ICH3 interface is a 266 MB/sec point-to-point connection using

an 8-bit wide, 66 MHz base clock at a 4x data transfer rate. The P64H2 interface

is a 1 GB/s point-to-point connection using a 16-bit wide, 66 MHz base clock at

a 8x data transfer rate.

The ICH3 I/O Controller Hub provides various integrated functions, including a

two-channel UDMA100 bus master IDE controller, USB host controllers, an in-

tegrated LAN controller, a System Management Bus controller and an

AC'97 compliant interface.

The P64H2 PCI-X Hub provides a 16-bit connection to the MCH for high-

performance IO capability and the 64-bit PCI-X interface.