Processing
- 8-core: Two 2.26GHz, 2.66GHz, or 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors
- Quad-core: One 2.66GHz or 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3500 series processor
- Next-generation Intel microarchitecture
- 8MB of fully shared L3 cache per processor
- Integrated memory controller
- Turbo Boost dynamic performance (up to 3.33GHz on 8-core 2.93GHz system)
- Hyper-Threading technology for up to 16 virtual cores
- 128-bit SSE4 SIMD engine
- 64-bit data paths and registers
- Optimized for energy efficiency
Memory
- 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM
- 8-core: Eight memory slots (four per processor) supporting up to 32GB of main memory using 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB DIMMs
- Quad-core: Four memory slots supporting up to 8GB of main memory using 1GB or 2GB DIMMs
Connections and audio
- Four FireWire 800 ports (two on front panel, two on back panel)
- Five USB 2.0 ports (two on front panel, three on back panel)
- Two USB 2.0 ports on included keyboard
- Front-panel headphone minijack and internal speaker
- Optical digital audio input and output TOSLINK ports
- Analog stereo line-level input and output minijacks
