IBM System x3850 X5 User Manual

Microprocessor-board connectors
The following illustration shows the connectors on the microprocessor board.
Scalability link Scalability link
I/O board
power
I/O board
PCIe2 x8
connector for
SAS RAID card
Fan 3
SAS backplane
power
SAS backplane
data
Memory
card 8
Memory
card 7
Memory
card 6
Fan 2Fan 1
Memory
card 5
Front
panel
Scalability
LED
CD/DVD
power
Memory
card 1
Memory
card 2
Memory
card 3
Memory
card 4
Microprocessor
1 - 4 connector
123 4
I/O board
I/O board
power
Front of server
34 IBM System x3850 X5 and x3950 X5 Types 7145, 7146, 7143, and 7191: Installation and User's Guide

IBM System x3850 X5 Specifications

General

Processor Cores	Up to 10 cores per processor
Chipset	Intel 7500
Hard Drive Interface	SAS/SATA
Processor	Intel Xeon E7-4800 series, Intel Xeon E7-8800 series
Memory Slots	64 DIMM slots
Storage	Up to 16 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Network Interface	Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere
Form Factor	4U Rack