Vig430P Motherboard Manual
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Chipset Overview
Built upon the functionality and the capability of the Intel C602 chipset platform, the Vig430P
Motherboard provides the performance required for dual processor- based CAD workstations or
graphic-intensive systems. With the Intel QuickPath interconnect (QPI) controller built in, the
C602 Series Processor platform offers the next generation point-to-point system interconnect
interface, outperforming the previous generation of QPI and offering enhanced system
performance with increased bandwidth and scalability.
The C602 Chipset connects to each processor through an independent QPI link. Each link
consists of 40 pairs of unidirectional differential lanes for transmission and receiving in addition
to a differential forwarded clock.
The C602 Chipset supports up to 48 PCI Express lanes, peer-to-peer read and writes
transactions. It provides up to six PCI-Express ports, ten SATA ports and fourteen USB
connections.
In addition, the C602 platform also supports a wide range of RAS (Reliability, Availability and
Serviceability) features. These features include memory interface ECC, x4/x8 Single Device
Data Correction (SDDC), Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), parity protection, out-of-band
register access via SMBus, memory mirroring, memory sparing, and Hot-plug support on the
PCI-Express Interface.
Main Features of the E5-2400 Series Processors and C602 Chipset
Up to eight processor cores in each processor with 20MB shared cache among cores
Two full-width Intel QuickPath interconnect links, up to 8GT/s of data transfer rate in each
direction
Virtualization Technology, Integrated Management Engine supported
Point-to-point cache coherent interconnect, Fast/narrow unidirectional links, and Concurrent
bi-directional traffic
Error detection via CRC and Error correction via Link level retry
