Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 Technical Guidebook
SECTION 5. PROCESSORS
The Intel
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5500 series 2S processor (Nehalem - Ecient Processor (EP)), is the microprocessor
designed specifically for servers and workstation applications. The processor features quad-core
processing to maximize performance and performance/watt for data center infrastructures and highly
dense deployments. The Nehalem-EP 2S processor also features Intel’s Core™ micro-architecture and
Intel 64 architecture for flexibility in 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems.
The 5500 series 2S processor (Nehalem EP) utilizes a 1366-contact Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FC-LGA)
package that plugs into a surface mount socket. PowerEdge M610 provides support for up to two 5500
series 2S processors (Nehalem EP).
NEHALEM-EP 2S PROCESSOR FEATURES
32KB instruction, 32KB data, 4 or 8MB (shared)
1-2 CPUs
LGA1366
Table: Nehalem-EP Features
Figure: PowerEdge M610 Main Components
1. 2 2.5” Hard Drives
Hard drive controller underneath
2. Internal USB
3. Chipset
4. 2 Processor Sockets
5. 12 DDR3 DIMM Slots
6. High-speed Mezz Card Slots
On-board NICs underneath
7. iDRAC6 Enterprise
8. Persistent Storage (underneath iDRAC6)
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6 7 8
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