Dell PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide

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PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide 35
9 BIOS
9.1 Overview
The T710 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core and supports the following features:
 Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support
 Processor Turbo Mode support
 PCI 2.3 compliant
 Plug and Play 1.0a compliant
 MP (Multiprocessor) 1.4 compliant
 Ability to boot from hard drive, optical drive, iSCSI drive, USB key, and SD card
 ACPI support
 Direct Media Interface (DMI) support
 PXE and WOL support for on-board NICs
 Memory mirroring support
 SETUP access through <F2> key at end of POST
 USB 2.0 (USB boot code is 1.1 compliant)
 F1/F2 error logging in CMOS
 Virtual KVM, CD, and floppy support
 Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) 2.1 support
The T710 BIOS does not support the following:
 Embedded Diagnostics
 BIOS language localization
 BIOS recovery after bad flash (but can be recovered with iDRAC Express)
9.2 BIOS Settings and Defaults
Refer to the Dell PowerEdge T710 Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com for
detailed information on navigating the BIOS screens.
9.3 Power Management Modes
9.3.1 OS Control
Intel processors support Demand Based Switching (DBS) which enables the processor to dynamically
change its operating frequency in response to workload changes. The industry standard
implementation of this power management feature is in the Operating System (OS). The OS monitors
process/thread level utilization of the processor and uses processor controls to change the operating
frequency. For heavy workloads, the OS will run the processor at higher frequencies for additional
performance. Lighter workloads do not need high performance, thus the OS will run the processor at
lower frequencies.
9.3.2 Active Power Controller
The Dell Active Power Controller (DAPC) is a Dell proprietary implementation that provides improved
performance/watt over the operating system implementation of Intel‘s DBS. DAPC was first released
with the eleventh-generation server platforms. DAPC is implemented in system BIOS and uses
hardware level counters and so forth to determine hardware utilization. The BIOS uses this
information to determine when to change the processor‘s operating frequency.

Dell PowerEdge T710 Specifications

General

Tcase	76 °C
Bus type	QPI
Stepping	D0
FSB Parity	No
Processor code	SLBF8
Processor cache	4 MB
Processor cores	4
Processor model	E5506
System bus rate	4.8 GT/s
Processor series	Intel Xeon 5500 Series
Processor socket	Socket B (LGA 1366)
Processor codename	Nehalem EP
Motherboard chipset	Intel® 5520
Number of QPI links	2
Processor frequency	2.13 GHz
Processor cache type	Smart Cache
Processor lithography	45 nm
Processor system type	DP
Processor manufacturer	Intel
Processor package size	42.5 x 45 mm
Processor front side bus	- MHz
Processor operating modes	64-bit
ECC supported by processor	Yes
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 W
Compatible processor series	Intel® Xeon®
Number of processors installed	1
CPU multiplier (bus/core ratio)	16
Memory types supported by processor	DDR3-SDRAM
Memory channels supported by processor	Triple
Memory clock speeds supported by processor	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)	19.2 GB/s
Maximum internal memory supported by processor	144 GB
HDD size	3.5 \
HDD speed	15000 RPM
HDD interface	Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Optical drive type	DVD-ROM
Total storage capacity	300 GB
Maximum storage capacity	- TB
Number of HDDs supported	6
Graphics card	G200
Graphics card family	Matrox
Memory slots	18x DIMM
Internal memory	4 GB
Memory clock speed	1333 MHz
Maximum internal memory	192 GB
Memory layout (slots x size)	2 x 2 GB
Networking features	Gigabit Ethernet
PS/2 ports quantity	0
USB 2.0 ports quantity	8
PCI Express x8 slots	5
Power supply	1100 W
Number of power supply units	-
Compatible operating systems	Windows Small Business Server 2011 Windows Small Business Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V) Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V v2) Windows HPC Server 2008 Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Sustainability certificates	ENERGY STAR
Compliance industry standards	IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab
Chassis type	Tower (5U)
Processor ARK ID	37096

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	731.8 mm
Width	217.9 mm
Height	466.3 mm
Weight	35300 g