Re: Question on Quickpath

Date	2011-06-21 22:39 -0400
From	Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com>
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Subject	Re: Question on Quickpath
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On 21/06/2011 6:37 PM, W wrote:
> So looking at the Xeon E5690 - for example - this would not be plug
> compatible on motherboards that use the older Xeons that do not use
> Quickpath?
>
> Would anyone happen to know if Dell's Precision Workstations have any model
> that will work with an E5690 that use the X58 chipset?

QuickPath was Intel's answer to AMD's Hypertransport, which was their 
answer to the old front-side bus. Basically the shared bandwidth FSB was 
replaced by a point-to-point transport in both cases. QuickPath is the 
underlying bus that PCI-Express runs on top of in Intel systems, just 
like PCI-Express runs on top of Hypertransport in AMD systems.

If the Xeon chip that you have uses a FSB interface, then it won't work 
with QuickPath.

	Yousuf Khan

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