Dell
PowerEdge T410 Technical Guide 30
8 Chipset
8.1 Overview
Introduction of the new Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor 5600 series includes a stepping revision of the Intel
5520 and 5500 chipset, which is required to enable the full 5600 series feature set. Dell servers
shipped with the new chipset revision have the symbol II in the System Revision Field visible through
Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator (OMSA) and the iDRAC GUI. They are physically marked with
a 12 mm x 6 mm rectangular label containing the symbol II. The memory interface is optimized for
800/1066/1333 MT/s 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:
Intel
®
5500 IOH Chipset (north bridge)
Intel QuickPath interconnect: 2 ports
ESI interface: x4 lanes
Intel Virtualization Technology
24 PCIe Gen2 lanes
Riser card (x16 slot + x8 slot) connecting to IOH PCIe x16 Gen 2 and IOH PCIe x4 Gen 2
Integrated Intel
®
Management Engine
JTAG support
Intel ICH10R Chipset (south bridge)
Integrated USB 2.0 with 12-port capability
o Two back ports from ICH10R
o Two front ports
o Two internal ports from the USB hub (1 port from ICH10R) on the front panel board
Integrated storage controllers
Six SATA channels (through ICH10R)
Maximum of one SATA drive (300MB/s, Gen 2) on each channel
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 PCI Express Interfaces
PCI Express Interfaces include:
• Intel
®
5500 chipset IOH provides multiple PCI Express Gen 2 interfaces
• Point-to-point, serial bi-directional interconnect
• One x4 ESI link to ICH10
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