Benefits and Applications

Utilizing the Intel E7500 chipset, the new Thunder i7500 provides leading-edge performance for today's high-speed servers. Designed to accept up two Intel Xeon Processors and 12GB of DDR memory, the Thunder i7500 also features two fully independent PCI-X buses for maximum I/O bandwidth. In addition, the Thunder i7500 features dual-channel SCSI with Adaptec Zero-Channel RAID support, Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet, and ATI VGA. It requires an EPS12V power supply and current generation SSI EEB v3.0 server chassis.

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Thunder i7500 Models

Processor

Dual PGA603 ZIF sockets

Supports up to two Intel® Xeon™ processors with 512KB L2 cache

Onboard VRM (VRM 9.1 spec)

Front-Side Bus support for 400MHz

Processor speeds: CPU chart

Chipset

Intel E7500 server chipset

MCH + ICH3 + P64H2 + FWH

P64H2 supports two PCI-X buses

Winbond W83627HF Super I/O ASIC

System Memory

Six 184-pin 2.5v DDR DIMM sockets

Supports up to 12GB of Registered DDR266 (PC2100) or DDR200 (PC1600) memory; dual-channel memory bus

Supports ECC memory modules

Expansion Slots *

Two 64-bit 133/100/66MHz (3.3-volt)

PCI-X slots

Two 64-bit 66/33MHz (3.3-volt) PCI-X slots

One 32-bit 33MHz (5-volt) PCI slot

Total of five usable slots

Integrated I/O

One floppy connector supports up to two drives

Two 9-pin 16550-based serial ports

One 25-pin SPP/ECP/EPP parallel port

Two USB ports

PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports

Integrated PCI IDE

Dual-channel master mode

Supports up to four Enhanced IDE devices

Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices

Integrated LAN

Gigabit and Fast Ethernet on-board

Two LAN controllers

- one Intel® 82544GC 10/100/1000 controller

- one Intel® 82550 10/100 controller

Gigabit NIC connected to the 66MHz PCI-X bus

* Note: For details regarding bus speed resource allocation and maximum bus slot frequencies, please consult Thunder i7500 documentation.

Server Management

(daughtercard option)

Supports the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)

Q-Logic Zircon Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)

I2 C and IPMB

Integrated SCSI (optional)

Adaptec AIC-7899W controller

(AIC-7902 optional)

Dual-channel Ultra160 SCSI support

(Ultra 320 optional)

Connects to 66MHz PCI-X bus for maximum throughput

160MB/sec maximum data throughput per channel

Supports up to 15 LVD SCSI devices per channel

Supports Adaptec Zero-Channel RAID (ZCR) technology

Integrated 2D/3D Graphics

ATI RAGE XL graphics controller

4MB frame buffer (SDRAM; 8MB optional)

Standard 15-pin analog VGA port

Hardware Monitoring

Winbond W83782D hardware monitoring ASIC

CPU temperature/voltage monitoring

3-pin fan monitoring headers

2-pin chassis intrusion header

3-pin Wake-on-Modem (WoM) header

BIOS

AMI BIOS on 4/8Mbit Flash ROM

User settings for hardware monitoring

Auto-configuration of IDE hard drive types

Multiple boot options

Form Factor

SSI EEB v3.0 footprint (12" x 13")

EPS12V power connectors

Stacked parallel (one), serial (one) and VGA (one) ports

Stacked USB (two) ports

Side-by-side LAN (two) ports

Stacked keyboard and mouse ports

Regulatory

FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)

European CE (Declaration of Conformity)