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NVIDIA nForce Professional
The Sun Fire X4600 also uses the following NVIDIA nForce Professional chipsets:
• NVIDIA nForce 2200
• NVIDIA nForce 2050
Both the NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 and NVIDIA nForce Professional 2050 MCPs (media and communi-
cations processors) provide I/O connectivity to a CPU via a 1-GHz, 8-GB/sec. HyperTransport connection.
The NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 attaches to the AMD 8132 PCI-X tunnel, while the NVIDIA nForce Pro-
fessional 2050 attaches to CPU H.
The NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 supports the following features:
• Three PCI-E ports (two 8-lane and one 4-lane)
• Independent IDE connection to DVD
• LPC connection to Super I/O
• Six USB 2.0 ports (three for external use and three for ILOM)
• PCI connection to ATI Rage XL
The NVIDIA nForce Professional 2050 supports the following features:
• Three PCI-E ports (two 8-lane and one 4-lane)
LSI SAS1064 SAS Controller
Sun Fire X4600 servers include an integrated LSI SAS1064 4-port 3-GB/sec. SAS HW RAID disk controller.
The LSI SAS1064 is a versatile controller that provides 4 SAS ports capable of 3 GB/sec. data transfers for
each phys, for a total maximum bandwidth of 12 GB/sec.
SAS features of the LSI SAS1064 include:
• Four fully independent phys
• Support for 3 GB/sec. SAS data transfers for each phys
• High-performance, serial, point-to-point, enterprise-level storage interface
• Simplified cabling between devices
• Data transfers using SCSI information units
• 133 MHz 64-bit PCI-X interface (shared bus with PCI-X 100 MHz slots)
• Integrated RAID0 and RAID1 solutions provide Integrated Mirroring technology and Integrated Striping
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