by Anna Filatova
04/24/2002 | 11:38 PM
It has long become a good tradition that every new Xeon announcement is followed by "something new" for these CPUs from Supermicro: a kind of Happy Birthday greeting. And now, almost right after the launching of Xeon 2.4GHz processor (see this new story) Supermicro Company announced a new mainboard called SUPER P4DMS-6GM based on Intel E7500 chipset.
Its specs correspond to what the high-end server solution should be like. The mainboard is designed in Extended ATX form-factor, features 6 DIMM slots for the maximum of 12MB Registered PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM, though the company reports that they didn’t test the solution with 2GB memory modules. Besides, there is 1 64bit 133MHz PCI-X slot, 2 64bit 100MHz PCI-X slots, 2 32bit 33MHz PCI slots, 1 VXB (Virtual Extended Bus), two ATA/100 channels, an integrated dual-channel Adaptec AIC-7899W Ultra160 SCSI adapter (in the future we may see Ultra320 AIC-7902), integrated ATI Rage XL graphics core with the 8MB local frame buffer, Intel 82544 Gigabyte Ethernet and Intel 82550 10/100 Ethernet controllers, Adaptec Zero-channel SCSI RAID controller, 6 cooler connectors, overheating indicator, chassis intrusion detector, etc. The price as usual hasn’t been mentioned :)