IBM Intel Xeon E7210 44E4244 User Manual

For small and medium businesses, server downtime
means business downtime, and business downtime trans-
lates into lost productivity and revenue. Business users
require servers that are powerful enough to handle their
computing workloads, and at the same time provide
reliable and trouble-free operation. Intel offers two server
platforms specifically targeted for the small and medium
business market segments. The first is a mainstream
volume and performance server powered by dual Intel

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Xeon™ processors and the Intel

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E7501 chipset. The

second is an entry-level server based on the Intel

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Pentium

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4 processor supporting HT (Hyper-Threading)

Technology

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with the Intel

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E7210 chipset. For budget-

conscious business users, an entry-level server delivers
impressive computing performance without compromising
system reliability, and represents a significant step up from
“servers” based on desktop PCs.

The highly integrated Intel E7210 chipset, consisting of
the Intel E7210 memory controller hub and the Intel

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6300ESB I/O controller hub, is designed to operate with
the latest Intel Pentium 4 processor supporting HT
Technology and 800 MHz system bus, with the Intel
E7210 chipset providing the intelligence to manage and
prioritize the workloads. HT Technology is an Intel innova-

tion which allows the processor to execute instruction
threads in parallel so the processor can complete more
tasks in the same amount of time. This maximizes the
efficiency of the processor, improving system performance
and responsiveness (HT Technology is also available on
dual processor servers with the Intel Xeon processor and
Intel E7501 chipset).

The Intel E7210 chipset, with dual channel DDR-400
memory support, provides an aggregate memory
bandwidth of 6.4 gigabytes per second (GB/s). This
enables a balanced platform design and delivers
maximum system performance for memory intensive
server applications. The performance of a 3.20E GHz Intel
Pentium 4 processor supporting HT Technology and the
Intel E7210 chipset based server, as measured using the
NetBench* benchmark, is 80% higher compared to a
previous generation Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.40 GHz
and Intel

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845E chipset-based system. 

The Intel E7210 chipset-based platform provides a
dedicated Ethernet networking bus interface based on
Intel’s Communication Streaming Architecture (CSA). With
the Intel

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82547EI gigabit Ethernet controller, CSA

provides dedicated I/O bandwidth to achieve near-wire-
speed gigabit Ethernet performance.

1 Hyper-Threading Technology requires a computer system with an Intel

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Pentium

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4 processor supporting HT Technology, a chipset and BIOS that utilize this technology, and

an operating system that includes optimizations for this technology. Look for systems with the Intel

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Pentium

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4 Processor with HT Technology logo which your system

vendor has verified utilize Hyper-Threading Technology. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. See www.intel.com/info/hyper-
threading for information.

System configurations: 
Source: Veritest* Labs (Dec ‘03)

Intel

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Pentium

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4 processor 2.40 GHz with 512kB L2 cache, Intel

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845E chipset based (Intel S845WD1) board with 533 MHz system bus; 1GB single channel DDR-266

memory; Microsoft* Windows* 2003 Server; Intel

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PRO/1000 Gigabit Server adapter; Western Digital WD153BA 15.3GB 7200 rpm IDE (primary master), Maxtor 91024U3

10GB 7200 rpm IDE (primary slave), Maxtor 5T030H3 30GB 7200 rpm IDE (secondary master), Seagate ST340016A 40GB 7200 rpm IDE (secondary slave); NetBench
Enterprise disk mix
Intel

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Pentium

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4 processor supporting HT technology 3.20 GHz with 512kB L2 cache, Intel

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E7210 chipset based Intel reference server board with 800 MHz system bus;

1GB dual channel DDR-400 memory; Microsoft* Windows* 2003 Server; Intel

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PRO/1000 Gigabit Server adapter; Western Digital WD153BA 15.3GB 7200 rpm IDE

(primary master), Maxtor 91024U3 10GB 7200 rpm IDE (primary slave), Maxtor 5T030H3 30GB 7200 rpm IDE (secondary master), Seagate ST340016A 40GB 7200 rpm
IDE (secondary slave); NetBench Enterprise disk mix
Intel

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Pentium

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4 processor supporting HT technology 3.20E GHz with 1MB L2 cache, Intel

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E7210 chipset based Intel reference server board with 800 MHz system bus;

1GB dual channel DDR-400 memory; Microsoft* Windows* 2003 Server; Intel

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PRO/1000 Gigabit Server adapter; Western Digital WD153BA 15.3GB 7200 rpm IDE

(primary master), Maxtor 91024U3 10GB 7200 rpm IDE (primary slave), Maxtor 5T030H3 30GB 7200 rpm IDE (secondary master), Seagate ST340016A 40GB 7200 rpm
IDE (secondary slave); NetBench Enterprise disk mix

NetBench is a portable benchmark program that measures how well a file server handles file I/O requests from 32-bit Windows clients. NetBench reports throughput and
client response time measurements.