Dell PowerEdge R410 - 8 Chipset; Overview; Intel 5500 Chipset Features; Intel Quickpath Interconnect

Dell
PowerEdge R410 Technical Guide 25
8 Chipset
8.1 Overview
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R410 system board incorporates the Intel
®
5500 series of chipsets for I/O and
processor interfacing. These chipsets are designed to support QPI interconnect, DDR3 memory
technology, and PCI Express Generation 2. The memory interface is optimized for 800/1066/
133 MHz DDR3 SDRAM memory with ECC when running with Intel Xeon processor 5600 series.
8.2 Intel 5500 Chipset Features
The following high-level features are supported by the Intel 5500 chipset:
• Package: FCBGA9
• Intel QuickPath interconnect: 2 ports
• ESI interface: x4 lanes
• Virtualization technology
• 24 PCIe Gen2 lanes
• Integrated Management Engine
• JTAG support
8.2.1 Intel QuickPath Interconnect
Intel QuickPath Interconnect features include:
• Point-to-point cache-coherent interconnect
• Fast/narrow unidirectional links
• Concurrent bi-directional traffic
• Error detection via CRC
• Error correction via Link level retry
• Intel
®
Interconnect BIST (Intel
®
IBIST) toolbox built-in
• Packet-based protocol
8.2.2 System Memory Interface
System memory interface features include:
• Memory controller integrated in CPU package
• 3 channels per processor (6 total)
• 3 DIMMs/channel supported (18 total)
• Max memory of 192-GB supported
• Single-rank, dual-rank, and quad-rank DIMMs supported
• Support UDIMM and RDIMM
• DDR3 speeds of 800/1066/1333 MHz supported
• 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, and 4 GB densities supported
• No memory riser support