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PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 10
2.1.2 Intel 5500 Chipset
Although the chipset supports up to 18 DIMMs, the PowerEdge R510 is designed with 8 DIMM slots. For more information
on the Intel 5500 chipset, see Section 8, Chipset.
2.1.3 PCIe Generation 2
PCIe Gen 2 provides the next generation of I/O bandwidth to the system. PCIe Gen2 doubles the signaling bit
rate of each lane from 2.5 Gb/s to 5 Gb/s.
2.1.4 DDR3 Memory Technology
Intel Xeon 5500 series processors support new DDR3 memory technology, which replaces fully buffered
DIMMs in the new Intel architecture. Native DDR3 memory capability improves memory access speed, lowers
latency, and allows more memory capacity.
2.1.5 Next Generation Dell Embedded Server Management
The chart below shows the components of the new embedded server management capability. The PowerEdge
R510 default server management is the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). iDRAC6 Express and
iDRAC6 Enterprise are offered as upgrade options. The iDRAC Express hosts the Lifecycle Controller and
Unified Server Configurator. Optional iDRAC6 Express and iDRAC6 Enterprise provide out-of-band
management capabilities and enable the optional V-Flash.
Figure 2. Embedded Server Management Capability