Rain Computers

Processor

Quad-Core Processor (standard)

• 3.06GHz Intel "Bloomfield" Xeon
• 8MB L3 Smart Cache
• 3.33GHz Max Turbo Boost Frequency
• 4.8GT/s QPI Speed
• Hyper Threading for up to 8 virtual cores
• 45nm Lithography

6-Core Processor (optional)

• 3.33GHz Intel "Westmere" Xeon
• 12MB L3 Smart Cache
• 3.6GHz Max Turbo Boost Frequency
• 6.4GT/s QPI Speed
• Hyper Threading for up to 12 virtual cores
• 32nm Lithography

Hard Drives¹

Three hard drive bays with two 6Gb/s SATA III and three 3GB/s SATA II independent channels

Each drive is 640GB, 1TB or 2TB SATA III 7200RPM High Performance drives with 64MB Cache; Available 160GB and 240GB Solid State Drives

Total storage capacity: 10 tarabytes; optional RAID 0,1,5 or 10

Optical Drive

StormDrive Dual Layer CD/DVD Writer

2MB Buffer; Buffer Underrun Protection

Max Read: 48x (CD) / 16x (DVD)

Max Write: 48x (CD) / 24x (DVD±R)

Max Rewrite: 32x (CD) / 6x (DVD-RW) / 8x (DVD+RW)

StormDrive CD/DVD/Blu-Ray (optional):

LightScribe disc labeling technology; 2MB Buffer; Buffer Underrun Protection

Max Read: 48x (CD) / 16x (DVD) / 10x (BD)

Max Write: 48x (CD) / 16x (DVD±R) / 8x (DVD±R DL)

Max Rewrite: 24x (CD) / 6x (DVD-RW) / 8x (DVD+RW) / 12x (DVD-RAM)

Video and Graphics

ATI discrete graphics processor or NVIDIA workstation graphics accelerator with support for 2-way/3-way ATI CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI technology

Options:

• ATI Radeon HD 5450 [1GB GDDR2]
  1 x DVI, 1 x HDMI², 1 x VGA
• ATI Radeon HD 5670 [1GB GDDR5]
  1 x DisplayPort, 1 x DVI, 1 x HDMI
• NVIDIA Quadro 600 [1GB GDDR3]
  1 x DisplayPort, 1 x Dual Link DVI
• NVIIDA Quadro 4000 [2GB GDDR5]
  2 x DisplayPort, 1 x Dual Link DVI
• ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity
  [2GB GDDR5]
  6 x Mini DisplayPort

Triple Channel Memory

Six memory slots for 6GB, 12GB or 24GB 1333MHz DDR3 Triple Channel SDRAM

Onboard Audio

• High Definition Audio
• 7.1 Channel
• Support for S/PDIF In/Out

I/O Ports

USB 3.0
Two USB 3.0 ports, streaming up to 4.8Gb/s

USB 2.0
Six USB 2.0 ports, streaming up to 480Mb/s

FireWire
Two FireWire 400 ports on the audio industry-standard TI Chipset

eSATA
Two eSATA/USB Combination ports, streaming up to 3Gb/s

PCI/PCIe Expansion

Six PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots
4 x PCIe [x16], 2 x PCI [x1]

One PCI expansion for legacy cards

Connectivity

LAN
One Gigabit Ethernet port; 10/100/1000 Base T RJ-45 port

WiFi (optional)
Optional PCI Express 2.0 WiFi adapter 150mbps [b/g/n]