Intel® 5100 Memory Controller Hub Chipset

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.
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 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

1333/1066 MHz system bus
Supports Intel® Xeon® processors.
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 Technology◊
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 memory3
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