Vig451J Motherboard Manual
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Chipset Overview
Built upon the functionality and the capability of the Intel C612 chipset platform, the
Vig450J Motherboard provides the performance required for high performance CAD
workstations or graphic-intensive systems. The C612 chipset consists of the E5-
16xx/E5-26xx, i7-59xx (LGA 2011) processor. With the Intel QuickPath interconnect
(QPI) controller built in, the E5-26xx Series Processor platform offers the next
generation of point-to-point system interconnect interface, outperforming the previous
generation of QPI and offering enhanced system performance with increased
bandwidth and scalability.
The C612 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 C612 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 E5-16xx/E5-26xx V3 and i7-59xx Series
Processors and C612 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
