User Manual

Chapter 1: Product introduction1-4
1.3 Systemspecications
The ASUS ESC4000 Series is a server featuring the ASUS Z8PG-D18 Series
server board. The server supports Intel
®
LGA1366 Xeon
®
series processors with
EM64T technology, plus other latest technologies through the chipsets onboard.
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Model Name ESC4000 Series
Processor / System Bus
2 x Socket LGA1366
Six/Quad-Core Intel
®
Xeon
®
X5600 Series
(130W/95W)
Quad-Core Intel
®
Xeon
®
X5500 Series (95W)
Quad-Core Intel
®
Xeon
®
E5500 Series (80W)
Quad-Core Intel
®
Xeon
®
L5500 Series (60W/38W)
QPI 4.8 / 5.86 / 6.4 GT/s
Core Logic
Intel
®
5520 IOH
Intel
®
ICH10R I/O Controller
NVIDIA
®
nForce
®
200 x 2
ASUS Features
Fan Speed
Control
√
ASWM 2.0
√
Memory
Total Slots
18 (3-channel per CPU, 3 DIMMs per channel)
Capacity
Maximum up to 144GB (RDIMM)
Maximum up to 48GB (UDIMM)
Memory Type
DDR3 1333 / 1066 / 800 Reg DIMM / Unbuffered
DIMM with ECC
Memory Size
1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB (RDIMM)
1GB, 2GB and 4GB (UDIMM)
Expansion Slots
Total PCI/PCI-X/
PCI-E Slots
9
Slot Type
Full-length
- 8 x PCI-E x16 (4 at Gen2 x16 Link or 8 at Gen2
x8 Link) (Slot 1, 3, 5, 7 auto switch to x8 Link if
slot 2, 4, 6, 8 is occupied)
Half-length / Low-prole
- 1 x PCI-E x16 (Gen1 x4 Link) (PIKE SAS Card
for Storage Enhancement)
Additional Slot
PIKE Riser Card
Storage
SATA Controller
Intel
®
ICH10R:
- 6 x SATA2 300MB/s ports
- Intel
®
Matrix Storage (for Windows only)
- Supports software RAID 0, 1, 5 & 10
LSI MegaRAID (for Linux / Windows):
- Supports software RAID 0, 1 & 10
SAS Controller
Optional:
ASUS PIKE 1068E 8-port SAS RAID card
ASUS PIKE 1078 8-port SAS HW RAID card
ASUS PIKE 6480 8-port SAS RAID card
ASUS PIKE 2008 8-port SAS2 6G RAID card
ASUS PIKE 2008/IMR 8-port SAS2 6G RAID card
ASUS PIKE 2108 8-port SAS2 6G H/W RAID card