IBM IntelliStation


The IntelliStation is a family of workstations developed by IBM and first released in March 1997 as the follow-on to the PC Series 360 and 365. Certain IntelliStation M Pro Series were near hardware identical to low end IBM Netfinity 1000 Series network servers. In February 2002, POWER processor-based workstations, previously sold directly under the eServer pSeries brand, were also placed under the IntelliStation umbrella.
The last IntelliStation models were discontinued in January 2009, ending the product line.

IntelliStation Pro

Intel or AMD processor based workstations, discontinued in March 2008.

IntelliStation A Pro

Type 6224
Type 6217
  • Dual AMD Opteron Models 250, 252, 254, 256 or dual-core Model 275, 280 or 285
  • Up to 16 GB PC3200 memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI or SATA150 HDD
  • 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * Nvidia Quadro NVS 280
  • * Nvidia Quadro NVS 285
  • * Nvidia Quadro FX 1400
  • * Nvidia Quadro FX 1500
  • * Nvidia Quadro FX 3400
  • * Nvidia Quadro FX 3500
  • * Nvidia Quadro FX 4500
  • * Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 X2
  • * 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 800

IntelliStation E Pro

Type 6893
Type 6893
Type 6867
Type 6836–6846
Type 6204–6214
Type 6216–6226

IntelliStation M Pro

Type 6888
Type 6898
Type 6889
Type 6889
Type 6889
Type 6849
  • Intel Pentium 4 at 1.4, 1.5, 1.7, 1.8, 2.0 or 2.2 GHz
  • Ultra160 SCSI or ATA100 HDD
  • Up to 2 GB RDRAM
  • 10/100 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * Matrox Millennium G450
  • * IBM/Diamond Fire GL2
  • * IBM/Diamond Fire GL4
  • * Nvidia Quadro2 MXR
  • * Nvidia Quadro2 Pro
  • * Nvidia Quadro4 200NVS
  • * ATI FireGL 8800
  • * 3Dlabs Wildcat III 6110
Type 6850
  • Dual Intel Xeon at 1.5, 1.7, 2.0 or 2.8 GHz
  • Ultra160 SCSI or ATA100 HDD
  • Up to 4 GB RDRAM
  • 10/100 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * Matrox Millennium G450
  • * IBM/Diamond Fire GL4
  • * Nvidia Quadro2 Pro
  • * Nvidia Quadro4 200NVS
  • * ATI FireGL 8800
  • * 3DLabs Wildcat III 6110
Type 6231
Type 6233
Type 6229
  • Intel Pentium 4 at 2.4, 2.67 or 2.8 GHz
  • Ultra160 SCSI or ATA100 HDD
  • Up to 2 GB RDRAM
  • 10/100 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * Matrox Millennium G450
  • * Nvidia Quadro4 200NVS
  • * Nvidia Quadro4 900XGL
  • * ATI FireGL 8800
  • * 3DLabs Wildcat III 6110
Type 6219
  • Intel Pentium 4 at 2.4, 2.67, 2.8 or 3.06 GHz
  • Up to 4 GB PC2100 memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI or ATA100 HDD
  • 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * Matrox Millennium G450
  • * Nvidia Quadro4 280NVS
  • * Nvidia Quadro4 580XGL
  • * Nvidia Quadro4 980XGL
  • * 3DLabs Wildcat4 7110
Type 6220–6230
  • Intel Pentium 4 at 2.8, 3.0, 3.06, 3.2 or 3.4 GHz
  • Up to 4 GB PC2700 memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI, ATA100 or SATA150 HDD
  • 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • graphic adapter options:
  • * NVIDIA Quadro4 280NVS
  • * NVIDIA Quadro4 580XGL
  • * NVIDIA Quadro4 980XGL
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 500
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
Type 6225
  • Intel Pentium 4 with Intel 64 at 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 or 3.8 GHz
  • Up to 4 GB PC2-3200 memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI or SATA150 HDD
  • 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • graphic adapter options:
  • * NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400
  • * ATI FireGL V3100
  • * ATI FireGL V7100
  • * 3DLabs Realizm 800
Type 6218
  • Intel Pentium 4 with Intel 64 at 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 and 3.8 GHz or dual-core 3.2 or 3.4 GHz
  • Up to 8 GB PC2-4200 memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI or SATA300 HDD
  • 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • graphic adapter options:
  • * NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280
  • * NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
  • * ATI FireGL V3100
  • * ATI FireGL V7100
  • * 3DLabs Realizm 800
Type 9229
  • Intel Core 2 Duo with E6300, E6400, E6600, E6700 or Q6600 processor
  • Up to 8 GB PC2-5300 memory
  • 3Gbit SAS or SATA300 HDD
  • 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • graphic adapter options:
  • * NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

IntelliStation R Pro

Relabeled IBM eServer xSeries 330 1U rackmount servers.
Type 8654
Type 6851

IntelliStation Z Pro

Type 6899
Type 6865
  • Dual Intel Pentium II Xeon at 400, 450, 500 or 550 MHz
  • Up to 2 GB SDRAM
  • Ultra-2 SCSI HDD
  • 10/100 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * Matrox Millennium G200
  • * Matrox Millennium G400
  • * Intergraph Intense3D Pro3400
  • * Intergraph Intense3D Pro3400/GA
  • * IBM/Diamond Fire GL1
  • * 3DLabs Intense 3D Wildcat 4000
Type 6866
  • Dual Intel Pentium III Xeon at 677, 733, 800, 866, 933 MHz, or 1 GHz
  • Up to 2 GB RDRAM
  • Ultra160 SCSI HDD
  • 10/100 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * Matrox Millennium G400
  • * Matrox Millennium G450
  • * IBM/Diamond Fire GL1
  • * IBM/Diamond Fire GL2
  • * ELSA GLoria II
  • * 3DLabs Intense 3D Wildcat 4110
  • * 3Dlabs Intense 3D Wildcat 4210
  • * NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
Type 6894
The only Itanium-equipped model, with the same platform as an identical Dell, Fujitsu or HP workstations, and based on a SGI reference design; the main difference between vendor variants was only a hardware support, software options and case colors.
Type 6221
  • Dual Intel Xeon at 2.4, 2.67, 2.8 or 3.2 GHz
  • Up to 8 GB PC2100 memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI or ATA100 HDD
  • 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic options :
  • * Matrox Millennium G450
  • * NVIDIA Quadro4 280NVS
  • * NVIDIA Quadro4 980XGL
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
  • * 3DLabs Wildcat4 7110
Type 6223
  • Dual Intel Xeon with Intel 64 at 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 or 3.8 GHz
  • Up to 16 GB PC2-3200 memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI or ATA100 HDD
  • 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic options :
  • * NVIDIA Quadro4 NVS280
  • * NVIDIA Quadro4 NVS285
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
  • * ATI FireGL V7100
  • * 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 800
Type 9228
  • Dual Intel Xeon Model 5130, 5140, 5150 or 5160
  • Up to 32 GB PC2-5300 memory
  • 3Gbit SAS or SATA300 HDD
  • 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • graphic options :
  • * NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
  • * NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

IntelliStation POWER

IBM POWER processor based workstations. The POWER 185 and 285 models were the last Power-based workstations from IBM, having been discontinued on 2 January 2009.

IntelliStation POWER 265

Type 9112-265
  • Dual POWER3-II processors at 450 MHz
  • Up to 8 GB of memory
  • Ultra160 SCSI HDD
  • 10/100 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * GXT135P
  • * GXT4500P
  • * GXT6500P

IntelliStation POWER 275

Type 9114-275
  • Single or Dual Core POWER4+ processors at 1.0 or 1.45 GHz
  • Up to 16 GB of memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI HDD
  • 2 Ethernet ports; one 10/100 Mbit, one 10/100/1000 Mbit
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * GXT135P
  • * GXT4500P
  • * GXT6500P

IntelliStation POWER 285

Type 9111-285
  • Single or Dual Core POWER5+ processor at 1.9 or 2.1 GHz
  • Up to 32 GB of memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI HDD
  • Dual 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • Graphic adapter options:
  • * GXT135P
  • * GXT4500P
  • * GXT6500P

IntelliStation POWER 185

Type 7047-185
  • Single or Dual PowerPC 970 processors at 2.5 GHz
  • Up to 8 GB of memory
  • Ultra320 SCSI HDD
  • Dual 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet
  • Sound Card option with Feature Code 8244
  • graphic adapter options:
  • * GXT135P
  • * GXT4500P
  • * GXT6500P