Comparison Of Current Workstation Chipsets From Intel
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Chipset
I860
I875P
E7205
E7505
MCH
82860
82875P
E7205
E7505
Codename
Colusa
Canterwood
Granite Bay
Placer
Developed for
Xeon DP
Pentium 4
Pentium 4
Xeon DP
Hyper Threading Support
Yes
yes
yes
yes
Number of supported CPUs
1-2
1
1
1-2
FSB
100 MHz
133/200 MHz
100/133 MHz
100/133 MHz
Memory modules
4 RIMMS(8 with MRH-R)
4 DIMMs
4 DIMMs
4 DIMMs
Channels
Single-Channel
Dual-Channel
Dual-Channel
Dual-Channel
Memory type
PD800/600 RDRAM
DDR266/333/400
DDR200/266
DDR266
Max. Memory
4 GB (with 2 Repeaters)
4 GB
4 GB
16 GB
Number of Rows
32
8
4
6
Mbit Support
288/256144/128
128/256/512
128/256/512
128/256/5121024
ECC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Graphic Interface
AGP
2x/4x (1.5)
4x/8x (1.5V)
1x/2x/4x (1.5V)4x/8x (0.8V)
1x/2x/4x (1.5V)4x/8x (0.8V)
I/O HUB
Southbridges
ICH2 (82801BA)
ICH5 (82801EB)ICH5R (82801ER)
ICH4 (82801DB)
ICH4 (82801DB)
PCI-Standard
2.2
2.3
2.2
2.2
PCI Master Slots (max)
6
6
6
6
IDE
ATA 33/66/100
ATA 33/66/100
ATA 33/66/100
ATA 33/66/100
SATA Support
No
2
No
No
USB Ports
4x USB 1.1
8x USB 2.0
6x USB 2.0
6x USB 1.1USB 2.0 (P64H2)
LAN
Yes
CSA 266 MHz
Yes
Integrated10/100 Mbit
AC'97
Audio/Modem
AC'97 2.3
Yes
AC'97 2.3
Manageability
I/O Management
SMBus/GPIO
SMBus 2.0/GPIO
SMBus/GPIO
SMBus 2.0/GPIO
I/O HUB (Expansion)
PCI Controller
P64H
n/a
n/a
P64H2
PCI Support
PCI 64 (2x 66 MHz) or PCI 33 (4x 33 MHz)
n/a
n/a
2x 64Bit PCI/PCI-XPCI max 66 MHzPCI-X max 133 MHz
PCI Master
6
n/a
n/a
3
Chipset Price
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Chipset
Codename
Price per 1000
E7505
Placer
$100
E7501
Plumas 533
$92
E7500
Plumas
$92
E7205
Granite Bay
$57
I875P
Canterwood
$50
I865PE
Springdale
$28
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