DellPowerEdge R410 Technical Guide 258 Chipset8.1 OverviewThe Dell™ PowerEdge™ R410 system board incorporates the Intel ® 5500 series of chipsets for I/O andprocessor interfacing. These chipsets are designed to support QPI interconnect, DDR3 memorytechnology, 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 FeaturesThe 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 support8.2.1 Intel QuickPath InterconnectIntel 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 protocol8.2.2 System Memory InterfaceSystem 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