Aqua-Soft ForumsYo,
Whats the 8 x CPU mobo used in the IBM XSeries 370 server, and what are
the best cpus it can handle ?
thx,
Gabriel.
P.S.
Will XP and Longhorn run on that thing ?
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IBM XSeries 370 mobo
It's an oldie by real world standards but in short... yes.
The CPU specs are based on what was available at the time.
You can acutaly put in any PIII Xeon that uses a 100 MHz FSB.
Here are all the supported operating systems.
Caldera Open UNIX 8.x, Caldera OpenLinux, DOS, IBM AIX, NetWare, OS/2, Red Hat Linux, SCO Linux, SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, SUSE LINUX, Turbolinux, VMware ESX Server, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP .
And here are the specs:
The following list summarizes the features of the xSeries 370 server.
Processors
• Intel® Pentium® III Xeon™ processor with Streaming SIMD Extensions
• Expandable to eight 900 MHz Pentium III Xeon processors
• 100 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB)
• 16 KB of level-1 cache memory
• 512 KB, 1 MB, or 2 MB of level-2 cache with error checking and correction (ECC)
memory integrated into processor
• Upgradable processor speeds when available
Memory
• One memory board standard
— Sixteen 168-pin, dual inline memory-module (DIMM) connectors
— Supports up to 16 GB
• Expandable to 32 GB
• 100 MHz, PC100, registered synchronous dynamic random-access memory
(SDRAM) with ECC
• Support for 128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB, and 1 GB DIMMs
• Support for a second memory board (optional)
Diskette drive
• Supports one diskette drive
• Standard: One 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB
Hard disk drives
• Two half-high, 3.5-inch drive bays
• Supports up to two internal hard disk drives
CD-ROM drive
• Standard: Integrated drive electronics (IDE)
Expansion-slot connectors
Supports up to 14 adapters:
wow thanks.
I have a few more questions though. WHats the model name of the mobo, and how are
are all those cpus cooled ? You see what i wanna do is put 8 900 mhz cpus in this and
have 7.2 ghz in total, if i overclock them each by a tiny bit Ill have 10 Ghz but like i said
i need to know how its cooled. THen i jam all this into a barebone case and but 2 of those
1 TB toshiba Hard drives into it 8-) Also, what are the options for putting graphics
cards and stuff in this ?
By the way how fast would this be ? cause even if it 10 ghz
it uses really outdated technology and doesnt have anything
like hyperthreading and stuff so what would the performance
really be like ?
The CPU's are air cooled.
The motherboard is not an off the shelf piece.
It's custom made by IBM for this server.
No HyperThread support. No support for additional graphics cards.
It has 14 PCI slots, but you cannot change the default video source.
This is a server, not a workstation.
As for performance, unless you are running and OS and applications that are SMP aware, there would be zero performance gains.