Intel® 5000X Chipset Overview

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Intel® 5000X Chipset

Intel's new workstation chipset for the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 series enables Intel® dual-processor (DP) balanced platforms that help businesses be more productive and efficient.

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Description

With the Intel® 5000X chipset, Intel® dual-core processor-based workstations incorporate next-generation technologies for enhanced performance and visualization critical to high-end, graphic-intensive DP computing. The Intel 5000X chipset has passed workstation and server validation.

These new dual-core, dual-processor workstations deliver outstanding performance, dependability and value to digital content creation, mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD), electronic design automation, and other graphics workstation applications.

Features and benefits

Intel® 5000X MCH Chipset features
Supports two dual-core Intel® Xeon® processors 5000° series	Optimized performance for the DP Server market segment with a range of price points.
1066 / 1333¹ MHz dual independent buses	Increased bus bandwidth of up to 3X over 800 MHz systems.
FB DIMM 533/667 MHz memory interface	Offers a maximum memory bandwidth up to 17 GB/s for 533 MHz and 21 GB/s for 667 MHz. Increased dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) per system provide enhanced memory scalability for memory-intensive applications.
PCI Express X-16 graphics	PCIe graphics interface, delivers as much as 4.0 GB/s of graphics bandwidth per direction directly into the Intel® 5000X MCH chipset (total bandwidth 8 GB/s). Enhanced visualization with the PCI Express x16 graphics interface, delivering twice the bandwidth of AGP 8X.
PCI Express I/O*²	Serial I/O technology provides a direct connection between the MCH chipset and PCI Express* component/adapters with bandwidth up to 4 GB/s on each PCI Express x8 interface. PCI Express offers higher bandwidth, lower latency and fewer I/O bottlenecks than PCI-X.
Intel® 6700PXH 64-bit PCI Hub	Optional component introduces next-generation PCI/PCI-X performance and significant enhancements to platform flexibility. Supports two independent 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI-X segments and two Hot-Plug controllers (one per segment).
Advanced platform reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)	Features such as memory Error Correction Code (ECC), Intel® x4 Single Device Data Correction (x4 SDDC), DIMM sparing and DIMM scrubbing for improved system reliability. The System Management Bus (SMBus) port hooks into the Intel® 5000V MCH chipset for remote management operation and support for a variety of third-party base management controller (BMC) and BIOS solutions.
Intel® Hub Interface 1.5 connection to the MCH chipset	Point-to-point connection between the MCH chipset and the Intel® 82801ER I/O Controller Hub or Intel® 6300ESB I/O Controller Hub devices provides as much as 266 MB/s of bandwidth.

Packaging information

Product	Package
Intel® 5000X Memory Controller Hub (MCH) chipset	1432 Flip Chip-Ball Grid Array (FC-BGA)
Intel® 6700PXH 64-bit PCI Hub	567 Flip Chip-Ball Grid Array (FC-BGA)
Intel® 6321ESB I/O Controller Hub	1284 Flip Chip - Ball Grid Array (PBGA)

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.

° 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/ for details.

¹ The 1333 MHz system bus feature will be available in the second half of 2006.

² PCI Express* reduced power-state "L0s" is not supported.

For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel® products, visit http://www.intel.com/performance/resources/benchmark_limitations.htm.