Intel
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Server Board S2600CP and Server System P4000CP TPS Intel
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Server System P4000CP Thermal Management
Revision 1.1
Intel order number G26942-003
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12. Intel
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Server System P4000CP Thermal Management
The Intel
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Server System P4000CP is designed to operate at external ambient temperatures of
between 10ºC- 35ºC. Working with integrated platform management, several features within the
system are designed to move air in a front to back direction, through the system and over critical
components in order to prevent them from overheating and allow the system to operate with
best performance.
12.1 Thermal Operation and Configuration Requirements
To keep the system operating within supported maximum thermal limits, the system must meet
the following operating and configuration guidelines:
Ambient in-let temperature cannot exceed 35º C and should not remain at this maximum
level for long periods of time. Doing so may affect long term reliability of the system.
All hard drive bays must be populated. Hard drive carriers either can be populated with a
hard drive or supplied drive blank.
The air duct must be installed at all times.
In single power supply configurations, the second power supply bay must have the
supplied filler blank installed at all times.
The system top-cover must be installed at all times.
12.2 Thermal Management Overview
In order to maintain the necessary airflow within the system, all of the previously listed
components and top cover need to be properly installed.
For best system performance, the
external ambient temperature must remain below 35ºC and all system fans should be
operational.
In the event that system thermals should continue to increase with the system fans operating at
their maximum speed, platform management may begin to throttle performance of either the
memory subsystem or the processors or both, in order to keep components from overheating
and keep the system operational. Throttling of these sub-systems will continue until system
thermals are reduced.
Should system thermals increase to a point beyond the maximum thermal limit as pre-
programmed in platform management for this system, the system will shut down, the System
Status LED will change to a solid Amber state, and the event will be logged to the system event
log.
12.3 System Fans
Two cooling solutions are used in the Intel
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Server Chassis P4000M series. The base non-
redundant solution consists of two 120 x 38mm fixed fans to provide sufficient system cooling.
The second redundant solution is designed for maximum up time by providing five 80 x 38 mm
replaceable hot-swap fans. The fans can maintain proper system cooling, even with a single
failed fan. Air ducts are used in both configurations.
12.3.1 Non-Redundant Cooling Solution
Non-Redundant cooling solution is used in the Intel
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Server Chassis P4308XXMXXMHEN.
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