IBM eServer xSeries, Configuration And Options Manual

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B4
A1 B1
B2 B3
A2
A3 A4
Standard Mezzanine Board Optional Mezzanine Board
Optional Cache
Coherency Filter
Cards
A B
Recommended order of
processor installation is:
Sockets A1, A3, A2, A4,
B1, B3, B2, B4
Netfinity 8500R ships with a single mezzanine board containing four Pentium III Xeon processor sockets with terminators in the
unoccupied sockets. An additional mezzanine board may be added, expanding the number of processor sockets to eight. The two
mezzanine boards are then linked through two cache coherency filter cards, one for each mezzanine board.
Option Content
Netfinity 8500R > 4-Way Enablement Kits
(P/N 28L4730 and P/N 28L4727)
•Support for 550 MHz models only
•Required for installation of processors 5...8.
•One Processor Mezzanine Board
•Two cache coherency filter modules
•28L4730 economical 1X (256 K entries)
•28L4727 high performance 4X (1 M entries)
•Filters may be used with Mezzanine Expansion
Kit (P/N 10K2337)
Netfinity 4X Accelerator Filter (P/N 10K2335)
• Two cache coherency filter modules
• Requires Mezzanine Kit 10K2337
Netfinity Mezzanine Expansion Kit (P/N 10K2337)
• One Processor Mezzanine Board
• Supports cache coherency filters from
the following options:
• P/N 10K2335
• P/N 28L4730
• P/N 28L4727
• Supports 700 MHz and above processors
only
• Required when upgrading models
8681-4RY...6RY to 700 MHz or above
All installed processors must be identical in type, speed and cache size.
Upgrades may require a BIOS update. To obtain the latest Flash BIOS,
access www.ibm.com/pc/support and enter machine “Type-Model” in
Quick Path. Select “Downloadable files” then “BIOS”.