Intel® Server Board SE7520BD2 Technical Product Specification Product Overview
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2. Product Overview
The Server Board SE7520BD2 is an Intel® Architecture (IA) 32-based server board capable of
supporting dual Intel® Xeon ™ processors. Board partitioning is optimized for general purpose
(GP)-pedestal design. The platform is based on the Intel® E7520 chipset and incorporates
several new high-speed buses and signaling architectures.
2.1 Server Board Feature Set
The Server Board SE7520BD2 supports the following feature set:
• IA-32 server platform based on the Intel® E7520 chipset
• Dual 800MT/s Intel® Xeon™ processors 200MHz FSB
• Six DDR-I Stacked Registered DIMM memory sockets supporting ECC memory (two
memory channels with three DIMMs per channel)
• Supports Intel® 82801ER I/O Controller Hub (ICH5-R), interfaced with an Intel® E7520
Memory Controller Hub (MCH) via Hub Interface 1.5
• Supports PXH PCI-X bridge, interfaced with the MCH via x8 PCI Express(PCIe)
Interface PCI-X 2.0 133-MHz slot
• Two PCI-X 1.0 100-MHz slots
• One PCI Express x8 slot (unpopulated on the SE7520BD2-V only)
• One PCI Express x8 (actual x4 plumbing to a x8 physical connector) slot
• Marvell* ““Yukon”” 88E8050 10/100/1000 LAN, interfaces with the MCH via x1 PCI
Express Interface
• Intel® 82541PI supporting 10/100/1000 LAN, interface with the ICH5 via PCI 32/33 bus
• LPC server I/O
• One 5-V PCI 32/33 slot
• Onboard dual channel Ultra-320 SCSI controller, interfaces with the PXH via 100-Mhz
Mode 1 PCI-X bus
• Onboard single channel Ultra-320 SCSI controller (SE7520BD2-V only – SCSI
connector B unpopulated).
• Onboard PCI ATI* Rage XL video controller
• Three USB 2.0 ports in the rear (on SE7520BD2-V SKU only)
• Two USB 2.0 ports in the front
• Dual SATA Interface
• Single ATA-100 interface
• Two serial ports
• One floppy connector
• Redundant Fan Speed control for the SC5300LX chassis (not supported in the
SE7520BD2-V SKU)