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Value Server Platform featuring the Intel® 5100 Memory Controller Hub Chipset

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Affordable 2-socket Intel® Xeon® processor based servers featuring the cost-optimized Intel® 5100 Memory Controller Hub Chipset and low cost Intel ICH-9R I/O controller. The platform is further optimized for reduced power consumption using low power native DDR2 memory.

Product information

Description

Server solutions based on Intel® Xeon® processors deliver powerful business capabilities at competitive prices, giving you the flexibility you need to help you to reach new customers, increase your revenue and achieve your business goals. Affordable 2-socket Intel Xeon processor 5400 Series-based servers help deliver new levels of performance for business processes, across a wide range of business workloads, including application servers, e-mail servers, Web servers and more.

Featuring Intel’s second-generation Quad-Core processor, a new cost-optimized Intel® 5100 Memory Controller Hub Chipset, low-cost Intel® ICH-9R I/O controller, and coupled with the energy-efficient design of Intel’s 45nm silicon process helps enable improved IT application performance with excellent power efficiency and value. Supporting either one or two processors, the platform is further optimized for reduced power consumption using low-power native DDR2 memory. The high-performance, low-power, and affordable technology found in these new business servers helps enable you to run more business applications within a smaller IT footprint and gives you revolutionary ways to assist you to achieve more with less.

Features and benefits

Value 2-socket Server Platform featuring the Intel® 5100 MCH Chipset
1333/1066 MHz system bus

Supports the Intel® Core™2 Duo and Intel® Core™2 Quad processors with Intel® Virtualization Technology    (Intel® VT)¹, Dual-Core Intel® Pentium® processor, and Intel® Celeron® processor.

Multicore Processing

Multi-core Intel Xeon processors deliver a quantum leap in processing capacity without a comparable increase in power consumption, so you can enhance your computing solutions efficiency while helping to keep server rooms cooler.

  • 4 cores per processor means more computing power for your business at an extremely affordable price
  • Dual Core processors are also available
Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture
  • Better performance on multiple application types and user environments as well as data-demanding workloads such as application servers, e-mail servers and web servers.
  • 80W and 50W Intel Xeon processors reduce cooling challenges with performance per watt improvements, helping to enable denser server deployments.
Large 12 MB on-die L2 Cache (2 x 6 MB)
  • Large on-die L2 cache stores data and instructions closer to the processor helping to reduce time wasted searching main memory.
  • With up to 50% larger caches, the new 45nm Intel Xeon processors deliver a boost in performance of up to 23%¹ to your everyday business applications, giving you greater productivity and faster time to insight².
Intel Virtualization Technology³ A processor hardware enhancement that helps you to create virtual servers, so you have fewer servers to manage and maintain without sacrificing application performance.
Native DDR2 Registered DIMM technology
  • 6 slots supporting configurable low power DDR2 memory4
  • Fast speed memory operating at 533/667 MHz
  • Registered ECC DIMMs help protect data and improve reliability.
1333 MHz dual independent bus Dedicated high speed bus (one per processor) gives you more data capacity and throughput, moving more data quickly through the system.

Packaging information

Product Package
Intel® 5100 Memory Controller Hub (MCH) chipset 1432 Flip Chip - Ball Grid Array (FC-BGA)
Intel® ICH-9R I/O Controller Hub 676 Flip Chip - Ball Grid Array (FC-BGA)
Intel® chipsets may contain design defects or errors known as errata that may cause the product to deviate from published specifications. Current characterized errata are available on request.
Δ Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See www.intel.com/products/processor_number/eng/ for details.
¹ Intel Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, virtual machine monitor (VMM) and applications enabled for virtualization technology. Functionality, performance or other virtualization technology benefits will vary depending on hardware and software configurations. Virtualization technology-enabled BIOS and VMM applications are currently in development.
² Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel® products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, reference www.intel.com/performance/resources/benchmark_limitations.htm or call (U.S.)1-800-628-8686 or 1-916-356-3104.
³ Compared to Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series. Up to 25% (1.25x) higher Performance X5460 vs X5365 - Published/measured results on SPECjbb2005* - Oct 2, 07.
4 Mainstream support for up to 24 GB DDR2 memory. Maximum capacity of 32 GB configurable at introduction and up to 48 GB in 2008.
For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel® products, visit www.intel.com/performance/resources/benchmark_limitations.htm.