Quad-core Intel^®  Xeon^®  5500 series processors with up to 6.4GT/s (Intel QuickPath Interconnect) up to 8MB shared cache and Turbo Boost Mode on select processors.

 

All processors are 64-bit, support Intel DBS (demand based switching) and Intel^®  VT (Intel^®  Virtualisation Technology).

Intel^®  5520 chipset

Up to 72GB with dual processors installed. Three channel memory architecture per processor with 1333 MHz and 1066MHz DDR3 ECC Registered DIMM memory.

Up to 9 DIMM slots; 6 slots (2 per channel) on motherboard and additional 3 slots on optional 2nd processor riser card. The 2nd processor has an integrated memory controller which provides an additional 3 channels of memory bandwidth.

BIOS 8MB flash memory for system BIOS

SMBIOS 2.5 support

Support for 2 PCI Express x16 Gen 2 graphics cards up to 150 watts and with up to 4GB graphics memory including:

ATI FirePro^TM  V8700

ATI FirePro^TM  V5700

ATI FirePro^TM  V3750

ATI FirePro^TM  V3600

NVIDIA Quadro^®  FX 5800

NVIDIA Quadro^®  FX 4800

NVIDIA Quadro^®  FX 3800

NVIDIA Quadro^®  FX 1800

NVIDIA Quadro^®  FX 580

NVIDIA Quadro^®  NVS 295

All graphics cards support dual monitor configurations

NVIDIA Tesla^TM  C1060 GPU card with 240 cores and 4GB of memory

SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM with 16MB DataBurst Cache^TM  up to 1.5TB

SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM with 8MB DataBurst Cache up to 320GB

SATA 3.0Gb/s 10K RPM with 16MB DataBurst Cache up to 300GB

SAS 15K RPM up to 450GB

Dual orientation chassis supports up to two internal drives plus a 3rd drive in flex bay (mini-tower) or optical bay (desktop). (4.5TB maximum storage capacity). Max 2 SAS HDD in desktop chassis. 4 HDD tower configuration for centralised environments is available by special order and can support up to 6.0TB and RAID 10 (with optional PERC 6/I controller) in mini-tower orientation only.

The T5500 uses an integrated SATA 3.0Gb/s host controller (part of the Intel chipset) and the optional PCI-e SAS 6/ir controller supports SAS drives with host based RAID 0 or 1.

The optional PERC 6/i PCI-e SAS/SATA hardware RAID card supports RAID 0, 1, 5 (RAID 5 in mini-tower orientation only). Single RAID 0 GPT DATA volumes greater than 2TB are available as factory installed option with the integrated controller and optional PERC 6/i RAID adapter under Windows XP64, Windows Vista 32Bit/ 64Bit operating systems.

Integrated Broadcom^®  5754 Gigabit Ethernet controller

2nd Gigabit port is available with the optional PCI-e Broadcom Gigabit controller card

Integrated High Definition Audio (Rev 1.0 Specification) implemented with a two-chip audio solution comprised of the ADI 1984a High Definition Audio CODEC and the ICH10's integrated AC97/High Definition digital controller.

Dimensions

Desktop orientation with feet: (WxHxD) 17.64" x 6.73" x 18.54" (44.8cm x 17.1cm x 47.1cm) (maximum including badge)

Mini-tower orientation with feet: (WxHxD) 6.73" x 17.64" x 18.54" (17.1cm x 44.8cm x 47.1cm) (maximum including badge)

Bays

Two internal 3.5" HDD bays

Two external 5.25" optical bays, one of which can accommodate a third HDD in desktop orientation

One external 3.5" flex bay for floppy drive or media card reader or third (SATA) HDD, in mini-tower orientation.

Slots

All full length except as noted.

Two PCI-e x16 slots wired as x8 (half length)

Two PCI-e x16 Gen 2 graphics slots up to 150 watts each

One PCI-X 64bit/100MHz slot with support for 3.3v or universal cards (half length)

One PCI 32bit/33Mhz 5V slot (half length in desktop orientation)

Standard I/O Ports

(11) USB 2.0 (two on front panel, six on back panel, three internal on motherboard)

(1) serial

(1) parallel

(2) PS/2

(1) RJ-45

(1) ESATA port on back panel

Stereo line-in and headphone line-out on back panel

Microphone and headphone connector on front panel

Front and rear IEEE 1394a ports are provided with optional 1394 PCI-e card

Optional Removable Storage

CD-RW/DVD Combo, DVD-ROM, DVD+/-RW, Blu-Ray Disc^TM , USB Floppy Drive, USB media card reader

Optional Modem

Dell 56K v.92 Data/Fax PCI modem

Software

Trusted Platform Module 1.2 (TPM 1.2)

Chassis intrusion switch

Setup/BIOS Password

I/O Interface Security

Hardware

Kensington Lock slot

Padlock ring

Internal front panel chassis lock