Chipset; Poweredge R410 Technical Guide; Overview; Intel 5500 Chipset Features - Dell PowerEdge R410 Technical Manual

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8 Chipset

8.1 Overview

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R410 system board incorporates the Intel
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
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• ESI interface: x4 lanes
Virtualization technology
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• 24 PCIe Gen2 lanes
Integrated Management Engine
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• JTAG support
8.2.1

Intel QuickPath Interconnect

Intel QuickPath Interconnect features include:
• Point-to-point cache-coherent interconnect
Fast/narrow unidirectional links
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• Concurrent bi-directional traffic
Error detection via CRC
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Error correction via Link level retry
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Intel Interconnect BIST (Intel
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Packet-based protocol
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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)
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• Max memory of 192-GB supported
Single-rank, dual-rank, and quad-rank DIMMs supported
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• Support UDIMM and RDIMM
DDR3 speeds of 800/1066/1333 MHz supported
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• 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, and 4 GB densities supported
No memory riser support
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PowerEdge R410 Technical Guide

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