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IBM System x3200 M3 Express™ Model (US)

Ideal applications include: network infrastructure, file and print, distributed branch office applications, and email and collaboration Intel® Xeon® 3400 Series (quad-core) up to 3.06 GHz or Celeron®, Pentium® or Core i3 (dual-core) up to 3.20 GHz 2x2 GB or 2x1 GB DDR-3 ECC memory standard, up to 1333 MHz; 1 GB, 2 GB and 4 GB UDIMMs; 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB RDIMMs 2 x 250 GB 3.5" hot-swap SATA or open bay (model dependent) or up to 8.0 TB SAS or SATA HDDs
IBM System x3250 M3 Express (US)

Ideal Applications Include: File and print, retail, network infrastructure and distributed applications. Intel® Xeon® 3400 Series (quad-core) up to 3.06 GHz or Intel Celeron®, Pentium® or Core i3 (dual-core) up to 3.2 GHz Standard 2x2 GB DDR-3 ECC memory, up to 1333 MHz; 1 GB, 2 GB and 4 GB UDIMMs; 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB RDIMMs (No mix of UDIMM and RDIMM) Up to 4.0 TB SATA or 2.4 TB SAS hard disk drives
IBM System x3400 M3 Express (US)

Ideal applications include network infrastructure, file and print, distributed branch office and e-mail and collaboration. Intel® Xeon® 5600 (four-core) up to two E5640 2.66 GHz and 1066 MHz memory standard or Intel® Xeon® 5600 (six-core) up to two x5670 2.93 GHz and 1333 MHz memory (configure to order only) 16 DIMM slots maximum, up to 192 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz RDIMMs or up to 48 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz UDIMMs Up to 3.0 TB of simple-swap serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives (HDDs); 8.0 TB of hot-swap SATA HDDs; 4.8 TB of hot-swap serial attached SCSI (SAS) HDDs; or 8.0 TB of hot-swap SATA/SAS HDDs (model dependent)
IBM System x3500 M3 Express (US)

Ideal applications include network infrastructure, virtualization, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), file and print, e-mail and collaboration and distributed branch office environments Up to two six-core Intel® Xeon® X5680 3.33 GHz processors or four-core Intel® Xeon® X5677 3.46 GHz with 12 MB of cache per processor socket and up to 6.4 GTps QPI system speed 16 DIMM slots maximum, up to 192 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz RDIMMs or up to 48 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz UDIMMs 8 or 16 TB hot-swap (available via upgrade options) or 8 TB hot-swap or 4 TB simple swap (available via configure to order only)
IBM System x3550 M3 Express (US)

Ideal applications include Web serving, e-business, collaboration, distributed database, ERP deployments and virtualization. Up to two 3.33 GHz six-core (3.46 GHz four-core) Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology, up to 1333 MHz memory access speed, supports select Intel® Xeon® 5500 via configure to order. Up to 192 GB RDIMMs or 48 GB UDIMMs via 12 slots Up to 4.0 TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA HDDs or up to 400 GB solid-state storage
IBM System x3620 M3 (US)

Ideal applications include departmental file server, online gaming, messaging, Web search, file/print server, blog server, video/photo sharing, mail server (IBM Lotus Notes® and Microsoft® Exchange) Up to two 2.93 GHz six-core (2.66 GHz four-core) Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology, up to 1333 MHz memory access speed. Also supports select Intel Xeon 5500 series processors Up to 96 GB in 12 slots, using RDIMMs Up to 16 TB Serial Attached SCSI or Serial ATA
IBM System x3630 M3 Express (US)

Ideal applications include: backup server, Web 2.0, imagery, video/photo sharing, online gaming, communication and collaboration (including blogs and messaging), file and print, mail server, transactional data, and web searching Up to 2.93 GHz 6-core (2.66 GHz 4-core) Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors (up to 12 MB L3 cache) or up to 2.26 GHz 4-core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors (4 MB L3 cache), with up to 1333 MHz memory access speed Up to 96 GB high-performance, new-generation DDR-3 memory with 12 DIMM slots, up to 1333 MHz memory access speed Internal storage flexibility with support for up to 14 3.5“ hot-swap SAS/SATA hard disk drives, or up to 28 2.5” hot-swap SAS/SATA hard disk drives, for up to 28 TB of local storage capacity
IBM System x3650 M3 Express (US)

Ideal applications include Web serving, e-business, collaboration, distributed database, ERP deployments and virtualization. Up to two 3.33 GHz six-core (3.46 GHz four-core) Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology, up to 1333 MHz memory access speed, supports select Intel® Xeon® 5500 via configure to order Up to 192 GB RDIMMs or 48 GB UDIMMs via 12 slots Up to 8.0 TB Serial Attached SCSI or Serial ATA ,or up to 800 GB solid-state drives.
IBM System x3690 X5 Express (US)
Ideal Applications include: Enterprise applications such as ERP or CRM databases and virtualization Eight-core Intel® Xeon® up to 2.27 GHz and 1066 MHz front-side bus, six-core Intel Xeon up to 2.0 GHz and 1066 MHz front-side bus, four-core Intel Xeon up to 1.86 GHz and 1066 MHz memory access 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB/up to 512 GB max PC3-10600 DDR III with Advanced Buffer eXecution; 1.0 TB per chassis with MAX5 800 TB SAS per chassis (supports 73.4 GB, 146.8 GB, 300 GB, 500 GB hard disk drives)
IBM System x3755 M3 Express (US)
Ideal applications include: Java™ workloads, HPC, midtier databases, virtualization, and midsized business applications Up to four 2.3 GHz 12-core (2.4 GHz 8-core) AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series processors Up to 512 GB DDR-3 UDIMM/RDIMM memory via 32 DIMM slots Supports up to 8 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs (up to 16 TB)
IBM System x3850 X5 Express (US)
Ideal Applications Include: Enterprise applications such as ERP or CRM, small to medium databases and virtualization to support server consolidation. Eight-core Intel® Xeon® up to 2.26 GHz and 1066 MHz memory access, six-core Intel® Xeon® up to 2.0 GHz and 1066 MHz memory access, four-core Intel Xeon up to 1.876 GHz and 1066 MHz memory access 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB/1.0 TB max PC3-10600 DDR III 4.0 TB SAS per chassis (supports 8 x 73.4 GB, 146.8 GB, 300 GB, 500 GB hard disk drives or 16 x 50 GB SSDs)