The most advanced processor for the h55 chipset. Chip set Intel H55 Express. Intel® Matrix Storage Technology

Date the product was the first introduction.

Lithography

Lithography refers to the semiconductor technology used to manufacture an integrated circuit, and is reported in nanometer (nm), indicative of the size of features built on the semiconductor.

TDP

Thermal Design Power (TDP) is a large amount of power, in watts, the processor dissipates when operating at Base Frequency cores active Intel-defined, high-complexity workload. Refer to Datasheet for thermal solution requirements.

Embedded Options Available

Embedded Options Available indicates products that offer extended purchase availability for intelligent systems and embedded solutions. Product certification and use condition applications can be found in the Production Release Qualification (PRQ) report. See your Intel representative for details.

Integrated Graphics‡

Integrated graphics allow for incredible visual quality, faster graphic performance and flexible display options with need for a separate graphics card.

graphics output

Graphics Output defines the interfaces available to communicate with display devices.

Intel® Clear Video Technology

Intel® Clear Video Technology is another image processing technology inspired by the embedded graphics processor that enables video playback, rendering cleaner, sharper images, more natural, accurate, and vivid colors, and clear and stable video picture.

PCI Support

PCI support indicates the type of support for the Peripheral Component Interconnect standard

PCI Express Revision

PCI Express Revision is the version supported by the processor. Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (or PCIe) is a high-end serial computer bus standard for attaching hardware devices to a computer. The different PCI Express versions support different data rates.

PCI Express Configurations‡

PCI Express (PCIe) Configurations describe the available PCIe lane configurations that can be used to link the PCH PCIe lanes to PCIe devices.

Max # of PCI Express Lanes

A PCI Express (PCIe) is one of two different signaling pairs, one for data collection, one for transmitting data, and a basic unit of PCIe bus. # of PCI Express Lanes is the total number supported by the processor.

USB revision

USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a standard connection technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer.

Total # of SATA Ports

SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a high security standard for connecting attachments such as hard disk drives and optical drives to a motherboard.

Integrated LAN

Integrated LAN indicates that Intel Ethernet MAC installations or LAN installations are damaging the system board.

Integrated IDE

IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is an interface standard for connecting storage devices, and write drive controller integrated into drive, therther than a separate component on the motherboard.

T CASE

The Temperature tab is the maximum temperature that can be stored in the Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS) processor.

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ‡

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) continues from the existing support for IA-32 (VT-x) and Itanium® processor (VT-i) virtualization adding new support for I/O-device virtualization. Intel VT-d can speed up our shortcomings in system security and reliability and bring the best I/O efficiency to virtualized environments.

Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility‡

The Intel vPro® platform is a set of hardware and technologys that win for business configuration, development, indoor security, day-to-day management and platform stability.
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Intel® ME Firmware Version

The Intel® Management Engine Firmware (Intel® ME FW) is vying for platform capabilities and management and technical capabilities for remotely managed networked computing assets out-of-band.

Intel® Remote PC Assist Technology

Intel® Remote PC Assist Technology enable you to request remote technical assistance from service provider if you encounter a problem with your PC, even when the OS, network software, or applications no functioning. This service was discontinued in November 2010.

Intel® Quick Resume Technology

The Intel® Quick Resume Technology Driver (QRTD) enables Intel® Viv™ technology-enabled PCs on the go as a consumer electronic device with instant on/off capability.

Intel® Quiet System Technology

Intel® Quiet System Technology can accommodate changes in system sound and connectivity through a larger swedish controller algoritms.

Intel HD Audio Technology

Intel® High Definition Audio (Intel® HD Audio) - Older playing back more channels at higher quality than previous integrated audio formats. In addition, Intel® HD Audio may need technology to support the rest and great audio together.

Intel® AC97 Technology

Intel® AC97 Technology is an audio codec standard which defines a high-quality audio architecture with surround sound support for the PC. It is the predecessor to Intel® High Definition Audio.

Intel® Matrix Storage Technology

Intel® Matrix Storage Technology delivers security, efficiency, and expandability for PC and mobile platforms. Even if you use one or a few hard drives, hard drives can take into account the importance of friendly efficiency and low energy efficiency. If you win more, the lower one drive the user may provide additional protection against data loss in the event of hard drive failure. Predecessor to Intel® Rapid Storage Technology

Intel® Trusted Execution Technology‡

Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for computer hijacking is a great set of hardware extensions to Intel® processors and chips, which can improve the platform's digital service with superior capability, such as directing and stealing execution. Tse enables environment where applications can run within their own space, protected from all other software on the system.

Anti-Theft Technology

Intel® Anti-Theft Technology (Intel® AT) allows you to protect your computer scum and your scum, but it's still not the same. Intel® AT Via service subscription from an Intel® AT – enabled service provider.

Entry

In my robot, I can see the "integration" of the Intel H55 and H57 chipsets. At the beginning of September 2010, Intel practically completed the glorious era of processors based on the Core microarchitecture. Now, for an ironic share, only ultra-budget models under the Celeron trademark for Socket 775 will be released on Core (for the next hour). However, it is not possible to say that the emergence of new chipsets is mind-boggling, or it allows us to expand the potential of new processors: here the potential is expanded more, and here it is closer. Well, let's get to know the first "integrated" chipsets under Nehalem (more precisely, Clarkdale).

1. History of creation of INTEL company

It all started from the fact that in 1955 the founder of the transistor, William Shockley, founded the Shockley SemiconductorLabs firm in Palo Alto (which, in addition, served as the cob of the creation of Silicon Valley), where he gained a lot of young successors. In 1959, the number of reasons was low for a group of engineers who did not rule the robot "on the uncle" and they wanted to try to implement their own ideas. "Vіsіmka zadnіvіv", like їх їх хохлі, among them boules including Moore z Noyce, fell asleep firm FairchildSemiconductor.

Bob Noyce took over the new company's director's tenure with a lease and a lease. If, in the process of preparing micromodules, the silicon wafers were cut on the same transistors, and then they were again connected one by one at the main circuit. The process is laborious - all the parts were soldered by hand under a microscope! - I expensive. Until that moment, Fairchild's sponsor, also one of the sponsors - Jean Hoerni, had already broken the so-called. planar technology for the production of transistors, all working areas are in the same plane. Noyce zaproponuvati okremi transistors in crystal each other pn junctions and cover the surface with an insulating oxide, and tie the gap for additional sawing of the husband with aluminum. The contact with the okremi elements was created through the veins of the oxide, yakі was etched behind a special template with hydrofluoric acid.

Moreover, like wine z'yasuvav, aluminum vіdmіnіy chіpljavsya like to silicon, so and to iogo oxide (the very problem of adsorption of the material of the conductor to silicon until the last hour did not allow vikoristovuvaty medium replacement of aluminum, unaffected by electricity). Such a planar technology in a modernized way has been preserved to this day. For the testing of the first microcircuits, a single device was used - an oscilloscope.

Tim was talking for an hour about the fact that Noyce had been ahead of the gentry's right to create the first microcircuit. Another 1958 collaborator of Texas Instruments, Jack Kilby, demonstrated the feasibility of preparing all discrete elements, including resistors and winding capacitors, on silicon.

Planar technology in yogo ordering, to that he won the title of mesa-transistor. Torishnogo serpnya vіn grabbing a practical trigger layout, at the okremі vygotovlenі it was hand-wielded elements were thrown with golden darts, and on 12 spring 1958 p. presenting a practical microcircuit - a multivibrator with an operating frequency of 1.3 MHz. In 1960, the achievements were demonstrated to the public - at the exhibition of the American Institute of Radio Engineering. The press even coldly chimed in. Among other negative features of the "integratedcircuit" was called non-repairability. Khoch Kіlby filed a patent application in February 1959, and Fairchild squandered a few in the same year, the rest of the patent was seen earlier - in April 1961, and Kіlby - only in red 1964. Then there was a decimal war about priorities, the result of which, as it seems, was overcome by friendship. Zreshtoy, the Court of Appeal confirmed Noyce's claims to the first in technology, but praised Kilby as the creator of the first practical microcircuit. In 2000, Kilbi won the Nobel Prize for this wine (among the other two laureates was Academician Alfiorov).

Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore went with FairchildSemiconductor and shut down their firm, and EndGrove arrived soon after. The same financier, who earlier helped create Fairchild, having given $ 2.5 million, wanting a business plan on one side, hand-handed the overruling of the machines by Robert Noyce, looking not at all hostile: a bunch of drukarian pardons, plus declare to finish the swearing character.

Choose a name, appearing with a difficult right. Dozens of options were pushed, but the stench came out. Before the speech, you don't seem to call CalComp or CompTek? Aje stinks could not belong to these popular firms, as they wear them at once, but to the largest processor processors - in their time they were thrown out among other options. The result was wrong to name the company Intel, Vіd sіv "іntegrovana elektronіka"" ​​Well, it's true, I happened to buy this name from a group of motels, as I registered it earlier.

Father, 1969 rock Intel started the work with microcircuits of memory and achieved a great success, but obviously not enough for glory. For the first time, the income was reduced by $2672.

Today, Intel is developing chips for market sales, but in the early years of its development, the company often produced microcircuits for design. In April 1969, representatives of the Japanese company Busicom returned to Intel, as they are engaged in the production of calculators. The Japanese sensed that Intel could develop advanced chip manufacturing technology. For the new desktop calculator Busicom wanted to design 12 microcircuits of different designation. The problem, however, was that Intel's resources at that time did not allow Vikonati to do so. The methodology for the development of microcircuits today does not seem to be different in those days, which was like the 60s of the 20th century, but the toolkit is even more noticeable.

For a long time, such laborious operations, like designing and testing, were done manually. The draftsmen made drafts on millimeters, and the armchairs transferred them to special waxed papier (wax). The prototype of the mask was made with a hand-drawn line on the great sheets of lavsan velvet. There were no other computer systems to calculate the scheme and її vuzlіv yet. The re-verification of the correctness was carried out by a path through all the lines with a green or yellow felt-tip pen. The mask itself was made by the way of transferring the armchair from the lavsan plіvka to the so-called rubilіt - the majestic two-ball leaves of the ruby ​​color. The engraving on the ruble was also done by hand. Then, for a few days, I had to check the accuracy of the engraving again. It was necessary to tidy up or add some transistors, it was done again manually, with the help of a scalpel. Less than after the last re-checking, the ruble sheet was handed over to the mask maker. The best pardon at any stage - and everything had to be started on the cob. For example, the first test instance "virobu 3101" is 63-bit.

In a word, 12 new Intel microcircuits physically could not pull. Ale Moore and Noyce were not only miraculous engineers, but also associates, in contact with whom he did not want to spend a big promise. And here one of Intel's spokesmen, Ted Hoff (TedHoff), fell asleep on the thought that the company could not design 12 microcircuits, it would be necessary to build only one universal microcircuit, as in its own way functionality replace them. Otherwise, Ted Hoff formulated the idea of ​​a microprocessor - the first in the world. In the fall of 1969, a group of expansions was created, and it began. In Veresni, the group also came to the same transfer from Fairchild StanMazor (StanMazor). The Japanese Masatoshi Shima was the controller from the deputy to the group of uwishov. In order to improve the safety of the calculator, it was necessary to prepare not one, but several microcircuits. In this order, instead of 12 chips, it is necessary to expand more than chotiri, but one of them is universal. No one was involved in the preparation of microcircuits of such folding before.

What is a chipset (chipset)

Chipset (Chipset) - the basis of the system board - the set of microcircuits for system logic. For the help of the chipset, the interaction of all subsystems of the PC is required. Chipsets may have a high level of integration, and (mostly) two microcircuits (single-chip solutions are more likely to be used), in which controllers are integrated, they ensure the operation and interaction of the main computer subsystems.

Practically in all modern chipsets, a set of system logic is composed of two microcircuits of a piping bridge and a piping bridge. The name of the microcircuits is based on the positions of the PSI bus: pivnichny - higher, pivdenny - lower.

The microcircuit of the pivnіchny bridge ensures the work of the largest swedish subsystems.

Vіn revenge: controller of the system bus, for which it is necessary to interact with the processor; memory controller, which controls the system memory AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) graphic bus controller, which ensures safe interaction with the graphics subsystem ; bus controller linking with a pivdenniy bridge (PCI - tires in a classic way).

The manager of the pivnіchny bridge - with minimal hiccups, organize the service of drinking to the system memory. The purpose of this project is based on the implementation of the memory controller, which allows you to simultaneously process a large amount of data, placing priorities and access to the main memory. For a more efficient storage of the memory bus, buffering of data is used, which ensures that the robot can work with the memory of a few devices at the time of access.

As it was suggested earlier, the classic implementation of two bridge architectures transferring the PCI bus as a link between bridges. A 32-bit PCI bus, which operates at a frequency of 33 MHz, has a peak throughput of 133 Mb / s, which is insufficient for the security of the needs of modern peripheral devices. Therefore, there are more options for linking microcircuits to a chipset and other interfaces, which, in its own right, allowed the PCI-bus controller to be introduced from the venous bridge to the pit. The hub-architecture (Intel 800-series chipsets) became the pioneer of this gallery. The essence of її zvoditsya before the transition to the construction of bridges for the "speck-speck" scheme. At the same time, a special 8-bit bus was introduced, which ensures a large bandwidth of 266MB / s. Bus controller, based on branded technologies, optimizing the work from power supply from peripheral devices to the main memory. Everything needs to be done by the hubs (pivnіchny and pvdennyy bridges) more independent and znіmaє obezhennya, like imposing the PCI-tire as a successful Lanka. Similar technologies are implemented in VIA chipsets (V-Link Hub-architecture) and in dual-processor solutions of SiS (MnTIOL-bus).

Pivdenniy Mist will ensure the work with the most important components of the system and peripherals. For the pivdenny bridge, the presence of advancing controllers and outbuildings has become a standard:

2. USB controller (one and more), which ensures the robot with attachments that are connected to the universal serial bus (USB), USB is responsible for replacing the old serial interfaces, such as the serial RS-232 (COM port) and the parallel IEEE-1284 (LPT port). Not a lot of old solutions: low throughput building, impossibility of hot replacement and connection of many outbuildings to one port, and also a small amount of interface cable.

3. LPC bus controller (Low Pin Count Interface), which came to replace the old ISA. The LPC bus has a 4-bit interface, connected with an I/O chip (Super I / O chip), which supports the work of external ports (last COM and parallel LPT, PS / 2 and infrared), as well as a floppy disk drive controller.

Most of today's chipsets implement AC'97 audio controller (Audio Codec) at their own bridge. The AC'97 specification can be used for processing digital and analog processing, which can be modified by a microchip, with which an interface for both AC-Link interactions is selected. In this way, the sound signal is converted into digital form at the bridge - in other words, a digital part (Digital AC'97 Controller) is implemented in the new bridge. To implement all the possibilities, which rely on the AC'97 specification, an AMP controller is installed in the microcircuit of the integrated bridge. On AMP-cards (Audio/Modem Riser Card) supported by it, analog lances of the AC'97 audio codec and/or the MC'97 modem codec (Modem Codec) are installed. The choice of dual-chip chipsets allows for different combinations of pivnichnyh and pvdennyh bridges, for the mind, stench support the same interface. It gives you the ability to create the most productive systems with the least power and in the shortest hour, while for the implementation of the remaining specifications it is enough to upgrade just one system logic chip, and the chipset as a whole.

Intel H55 and H57 Express

Why the chipsets are called "integrated" is obvious, it's good to see: call it that way to solve the problem of video playback, and now the graphics processor has closed the chipset and moved to the central processor in the same way as the memory controller (at Bloomfield) and the PCI Express controller for charts (at Lynnfield) earlier. Obviously, Intel's product range has changed to a few things: H has come to change the large letter G. However, due to the possibility of new products with a single dos and chipset for the processor socket Socket 1156 - P55, it is clear that it is as similar as possible to the new H57 itself, but it may be less than two-width, and just about the implementation of the video system. H55 g - youngest PCH in the family, with reduced functionality.

H57 chipset specification

The key characteristics of the H57 look like this:

· Up to 8 PCIEx1 ports (PCI-E 2.0, also with PCI-E 1.1 data transfer port);

· Up to 4 PCI slots;

· 6 Serial ATA II ports for 6 SATA300 add-ons (SATA-II, another generation of standard), with AHCI support and NCQ functions, with individual power-on capability, with eSATA support and rozgaluzhuvachіv ports;

· ability to organize a RAID array equal 0, 1, 0+1 (10) and 5 with the Matrix RAID function the array will see its part of the disk);

· fourteen USB attachment 2.0 (on two EHCI host controllers)

P55 The newcomer's visibility was minimal. The architecture was saved (one microcircuit, without a footer on the pivnichny and pvdenny bridge - de facto the same place), all the traditional "peripheral" functionality was lost without change. Перша відмінність полягає в реалізації у H57 спеціалізованого інтерфейсу FDI, за яким процесор пересилає сформовану картинку екрана (будь то десктоп Windows з вікнами додатків, повноекранна демонстрація фільму або 3D-ігри), а завдання чіпсета - попередньо налаштувавши пристрої відображення, забезпечити своєчасний на [потрібний ] screen (Intel HD Graphics supports up to two monitors. At the same time, there is nothing new at the very fact of additional interfaces between a processor and a chipset (earlier - between bridges to a chipset), and if we are talking about the DMI bus as a single input channel, then maybe the main channel for transmitting data to a wide profile, no more, and the deacons of higher education and specialty interfaces were founded forever.

It’s impossible to mention another thing on the block diagram of the chipset - vtim, it’s impossible to remember it in the objective reality, but only in the reality of marketing. Тут Intel застосовує той же підхід, який сегментував чіпсети колишньої архітектури: топовий чіпсет (на сьогодні це X58) реалізує два повношвидкісні інтерфейси для зовнішньої графіки, рішення середнього рівня (P55) - один, але розбивається на два з половинною швидкістю, а молодші та інтегровані product lines - one full-fledged, without the possibility of inserting a couple of video cards. It is quite obvious that the chipset of the current architecture cannot fit into the support, or the presence of the support of two graphical interfaces (thus, P45 and P43 were clearly the same crystal). Just at the start configuration of the system motherboard on H57 or H55 "does not show" options for organizing the betting of PCI Express 2.0 ports for the robot, and the board on P55 in a similar situation does not work. Really well, "zalіzne" pіdґruntya situation simple koristuvachevi all the same. Also, SLI and CrossFire are available on P55 based systems, but not on H55/H57 based systems.

The key characteristics of the H55 look like this:

Support for all processors Socket 1156 (including the Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 and Pentium families), based on the Nehalem microarchitecture, when connected to these processors via the DMI bus (with throughput building~2 GB/s);

· FDI interface for otrimannya to see the image of the screen in the form of the processor and the block for displaying the picture on the screen;

· Up to 6 PCIEx1 ports (PCI-E 2.0, also with PCI-E 1.1 data transfer port);

· Up to 4 PCI slots;

· 6 Serial ATA II ports for 6 SATA300 add-ons (SATA-II, another generation of standard), with AHCI support and NCQ functions, with individual power-on capability, with eSATA support and rozgaluzhuvachіv ports;

· 12 USB 2.0 add-ons (on two EHCI host controllers) with the possibility of individual connection;

Gigabit Ethernet MAC controller and a special interface (LCI / GLCI) for connecting a PHY controller (i82567 for implementing Gigabit Ethernet, i82562 for implementing fast ethernet);

· High Definition Audio (7.1);

· binding for low-width and old periphery, otherwise.

Here already є є є і і ​​in pіdtrіmtsі traditsіynoї peripherії - however, it's not necessary suttєvі (look at the eye, how many USB ports support the chipset, it's practically impossible). Kindly remember that regression to this particular type"observe" the situation at the time of the pіdennyh bridges ICH10/R: H55 concessions to the quietest change, as they allowed us to call for the name ICH11R for P55. H55 - in its purest form ICH10, moreover, without the letter R: the functionality of the RAID controller, the youngest chipset of the Intel 5x line is also not removed. Of course, the FDI interface was added to the list of ICH10 parameters, and it is so self-evident that the SLI/CrossFire subtrim, which is in front of two [normal] graphical interfaces, is not available in the H55. Additional features: budgetary solution in the new line may 12 USB ports instead of 14 for P55/H57, 6 PCI-E ports instead of 8 and no RAID functionality. The "peripheral" PCI Express controller, as before, formally conforms to a different version of the standard, the speed of data transmission over yogo lines is set at the level of PCI-E 1.1 (up to 250 MB / s for a skin-to-skin connection for two direct lines in one hour) - ICH10, unequivocally . How badly do you do well with supportive peripherals in new chipsets? The H57 drop has the same maximum, but not unique on the current dial. In the case of H55, guess what, a lot of people remember the number of RAIDs (but, obviously, not a grandiose reduction in the number of USB ports up to 12 pieces). Well, buyers, it’s possible, and they didn’t remember (few people need more than one hard drive at home), but how to sell motherboards without RAID? Well, these cheap microATX-models, obviously, let's say so - Intel, let's say, such a solution is proposed as a reference for the new platform. Ale, serious products without a sound attribute ... hardly. Later, an additional RAID controller will be soldered, bringing the number of SATA ports up to 8-10. On the other hand, it is possible that the H55 will have its own niche, and it will be possible for buyers (because they don’t know exactly what they want) to purchase models on the H57. The retail price of chipsets ($3) is unlikely to appear on the price of the final product.

Matching table of characteristics of motherboards

ASUS P7H55-M Pro

ASUS has the widest range of motherboards based on the Intel H55 chipset, which includes six models. Among them, the P7H55-M Pro is a product of the middle category without any other unique features. Obviously, the possibility of expansion and functionality to satisfy the needs of more coristuvachiv, like the price, like becoming close to 3600 rubles.

For good reason, the configuration of the ASUS P7H55-M expansion slots is the most optimal, and includes one PEG slot, one PCI Express x1 slot and a pair of PCI slots.

Prior to the configuration of the rear panel, we did not have any complaints, although we did not use the optional DisplayPort video output.

Vikonan's processor life subsystem is behind a 4-phase circuit, and the memory controller's life cycle is converted to a 2-phase one.

Motherboard ASUS P7H55-M Pro supports a large number of proprietary utilities and technologies. They include the Express Gate shell, the function of replacing the MyLogo 2 POST screen, as well as the BIOS firmware update system - CrashFree BIOS 3. It is significant to update the BIOS profiles - OC Profile:

And also a richly functional TurboV EVO utility, which, for overclocking the processor and memory, allows you to overclock and wake up the graphics core:

As for the BIOS, the board can boast even a great set of tweaks operational memory.

System monitoring of vicons on a high level. Zokrema, the board monitors the current values ​​of the temperature of the processor and the system, depending on the voltage, the speed of the wrapping of all fans, as for the additional function of Q-Fan2, they can change the speed of the wrapper depending on the temperature of the processor of the system.

Possibility of dispersing the heart in the "AI Tweaker" distribution and do not miss the short days:

So, on the ASUS P7H55-M Pro board, we have reached a stable robotic system at the Bclk frequency, which is 190 MHz.

It's easy to formulate customizations on the ASUS P7H55-M Pro motherboard, the price of the product is based on the basic capabilities, and as a bonus, it supports the ParallelATA protocol, as well as a lot of ASUS additional technologies.

· High stability and productivity;

6-phase processor circuit;

Support for one P-ATA channel (JMicron JMB368);

· High Definition Audio 7.1 sound and Gigabit Ethernet network controller;

Support for USB 2.0 interface (twelve ports);

· A wide range of ASUS proprietary technologies (PC Probe II, EZ Flash 2, CrashFree BIOS 3, MyLogo 2, Q-Fan etc.);

· Additional set of technologies AI Proactive (AI Overclock, OC Profile (all profiles), AI Net 2, TurboV EVO, EPU etc.).

not revealed.

Pay Features:

· Struggling functions to disperse and achieve high results;

· No support for LPT and FDD interfaces;

· Only one PS/2 port.

Visnovok

For this course project, I'm familiar with the "Integrated" chipsets Intel H55 and H57. Nasampered, it is necessary to understand that the inconsistency between different chipsets and processors of the same socket is not fatal. If any of these processors are used in payments on the skin of these chipsets, food is less in the fact that you do not waste your master of integrated graphics, for which everything is already paid for. Getting started is simple: if you want to work on the Clarkdale graphics, take the H57. If you want to create a normal (not to say - "perfect", 2 to x16) SLI / CrossFire - take P55. You can't do it together. And in the most modern intermediate period, if it is planned to win as one video card as a video card? In this case, P55 and H57 do not have any differences, and the admission price does not play a role here - buy the motherboard in the store, and not the crystal chipset was passed on at the Intel factory.

Product release date.

Lithography

Lithography is indicated on the conductor technology, which is designed for the development of integration of sets in microcircuits and the sound is shown in nanometers (nm), which indicates the size of the functions, in the case of the conductor.

Rosrakhun's tightness

Rozrahunkov thermal pressure (TDP) shows at the average value of productivity in BAT, if the processor pressure rises (when working with the base frequency, if all the cores are loaded) in the minds of the folding heading, designated by Intel. Familiarize yourself with the help of thermoregulation systems, pointing to the technical description.

Available options for systems to consider

Available options for systems to be used, to order products, to ensure the availability of equipment for smart systems and solutions. Product Specifications and Mindfulness Submissions from the Production Release Qualification (PRQ). Return to an Intel representative for detailed information.

Integrated graphics system ‡

An integrated graphics system ensures the low-key brightness and high productivity of graphics, as well as the ability to display without using a video card.

Visualization of the graphic system

The design of the graphic system designates an interface that is available in combination with the display of the extension.

Intel® Clear Video Technology

Intel® Clear Video Technology is a set of technologies for encoding and processing video that is integrated into the integrated graphics system of the processor. Tsі tekhnologii ї robljat vіdvorennya vіdvorennі vіd more stable, and graphics - сіtkіshoy, іskravіshоu і realistіchnіshoyu.

PCI support

PCI support specifies the type of support for the Peripheral Component Interconnect standard

PCI Express Edition

Edition PCI Express - the version that supports the processor. PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is the standard for high-speed serial bus expansion for computers to connect to new hardware devices. Different versions of PCI Express support different data transmission speeds.

PCI Express Configurations‡

PCI Express (PCIe) configurations describe the available PCIe channel configurations that can be selected to bind PCHe channels to PCIe devices.

Max. on PCI Express channels

Smuha PCI Express (PCIe) is made up of two differential signal pairs for data transmission, as well as a basic element of the PCIe bus. Number of smugs PCI Express - the main number of smugs, which is supported by the processor.

USB version

USB (Universal Serial Bus) is the same technology connected to the Galuze standard for connecting peripheral devices to a computer.

Total number of SATA ports

SATA (Last Data Exchange Interface, which is used for connecting storage devices) is the highest standard for connecting storage devices, such as hard drives and optical discs, to the mother's board.

Integration Meringue Adapter

The Merging Integration Adapter communicates the MAC address of the installed Intel Ethernet Attachment to the LAN Port on the system board.

IDE integration adapter

The IDE interface is the standard for an interface for storing storage devices, which indicates those that integrate a disk controller into a disk, and not an iron component on the motherboard.

T CASE

Critical temperature - this is the maximum temperature allowed in the integrated heat sink (IHS) of the processor.

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Direct Input/Output (VT-d) ‡

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H55 and H57 Express are two "integrated" chipsets from Intel.

Integrate sound to name the solution with the video, but now the graphics processor has blocked the chipset and moved to central processor, as a memory controller and a PCI Express controller for graphics, so there is an "integration" chipset in the temples.

H55 and H57 are closer in functionality, while H57 is the older and H55 is the younger ICH PCH in the family, with reduced functionality.

In order to compare the capabilities of both chipsets with the chipset for the processor socket Socket 1156 - P55, then it is argued that it is as similar as possible to the new H57 itself, but there are only two power in the implementation of the video system.

Key features of H57:

. up to 8 PCIEx1 ports (PCI-E 2.0, also with PCI-E 1.1 transfer port);
. up to 4 PCI slots;

. the ability to organize a RAID array equal 0, 1, 0+1 (10) and 5 with the Matrix RAID function you will see your part of the disk);
. 14 USB 2.0 add-ons (on two EHCI host controllers) can be individually connected;

H55 Specifications:

Support for all processors with Socket 1156 socket (including the core i7, Core i5, Core i3 and Pentium families) based on the Nehalem microarchitecture, when connected to these processors via the DMI bus (with a bandwidth of ~2 GB/s);
. FDI interface for displaying an external image on the screen from the processor and a block for displaying the image on the screen;
. up to 6 PCIEx1 ports (PCI-E 2.0, but also PCI-E 1.1 wireless transfer port);
. up to 4 PCI slots;
. 6 Serial ATA II ports for 6 SATA300 add-ons (SATA-II, other generation standard), with AHCI support and NCQ function, with individual power-on capability, with eSATA support and roaming ports;
. 12 USB 2.0 add-ons (on two EHCI host controllers) with individual wiring capability;
. Gigabit Ethernet MAC controller and special interface (LCI/GLCI) for PHY controller connection (i82567 for Gigabit Ethernet implementation, i82562 for Fast Ethernet implementation);
. High Definition Audio (7.1);
. strapping for low-width and old periphery, otherwise.

Architecture - one microcircuit, without a subdivision on the pivnіchny and pvdenny bridges (de facto the pvdennyy mist).

У H57 є спеціалізований інтерфейс FDI, за яким процесор пересилає сформовану картинку екрана (будь то десктоп Windows з вікнами додатків, повноекранна демонстрація фільму або 3D-ігри), а завдання чіпсету - попередньо конфігурувавши пристрої відображення, забезпечити своєчасне виведення цієї картинки на потрібний Intel HD Graphics supports up to two monitors.

The skin from the processors with the Socket 1156 socket is used in the board on the skin from these chipsets, the food is less in the fact that the master of the integrated graphics does not wake up, for the same everything is paid for.
If you're looking forward to the Clarkdale graphics, get the H57.
If you want to create normal (2 x16) SLI/CrossFire - take P55.

If it is planned to win one video card as a video card, between P55 and H57 there will be no difference between them.

Intro.
On the cob of in-line rock I will socket a platform that has taken root among rich coristuvachs LGA 775 it became possible to go back to history. Transferring its products to 32 nanometer process technology, allowing Intel to replace its Core processors with more advanced products. May all processors under the 775th socket be written off from the factory. On this day, the release of only older Celeron models under the old socket 775 is being continued.
The novelties of this day are the processors for the socket LGA1156, which are manufactured in 32 nanometer process technology and are based on the Clarkdale core. Clarkdale processors are ranked in the mid-range price range for direct competition with AMD products. p align="justify"> For robots with these processors, only motherboards based on Intel chipsets can be used. In connection with licensing problems, NVIDIA and VIA did not promote their alternative chipset options. At the same time, all motherboards for the LGA1156 platform are grounded on one of the following chipsets: Intel P55, Intel H55, Intel H57/Q57.
First chipset Intel P55 the most early releases and do not support the robot with processors with an integrated graphics core, but the three remaining chipsets and processors support it. In this respect, let's imagine a motherboard based on the Intel H55 chipset - Gigabyte H55M-USB3.
Viber on dana motherboard having fallen without a hitch. In our opinion, it is an indestructible option for choosing a modern multimedia station for a small room.
Complete set of motherboard Gigabyte H55M-USB3.
Today, Gigabyte introduced to the market seventeen motherboards for the new LGA1156 platform based on the Intel H55 chipset. In our review, we can imagine your familiar Gigabyte H55M-USB3 motherboard, as there may be some unique features, which are not found in other variants of motherboards from the same selection.
The next thing to note is that the motherboard for sale without the "M" prefix is ​​Gigabyte H55-USB3, which is the latest ATX solution. At the same time, the Gigabyte H55M-USB3 motherboard is a mATX option for smaller cases.
The motherboard is shipped in a small box, in a standard Gigabyte design box. It should be noted that practically the entire line of motherboards based on Intel H55 and Intel H57 chipsets is supplied in a box similar to the design.
On the front surface of the box, the key features of the mother board are redone. It is also indicated about the availability of a 3-fold guarantee for the merchants of the USA and Canada. Why is this written written, we don’t know, oskolki from Russia, the products of the same virobnik may be given by all postal workers to give a threefold guarantee.

2. Working memory:
- Support of modules XMP memory(Extreme Memory Profile) DDR3 type, non-ECC memory modules
- Two-channel memory architecture
- 4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMMs
- DDR3 2200+/1800/1600/1333/1066/800MHz
- Maximum volume 16 GB

3. Merezha: 1 x RTL8111D chip (10/100/1000Mbps)

Memory type DDR3 2200 MHz is only available for communication with processors without integrated graphic storage. Intel H55 chipset and LGA1156 platform.
New processors Intel Core i5і Core i3 on the cores of Clarkdale, the call is enough to trample on all the reach of AMD in the processor industry, which, with its Phenom II and Athlon II products, and with its competent pricing policy, began to double customers from Intel. The replacement of processors of the middle price range on the LGA 775 platform with modern processors on the LGA1156 platform easily allowed Intel to turn its part of the market. The transition to a new platform seemed to be the link between the ported pivnіchny bridge of the mother board directly to the processor. This allowed Intel to integrate the memory controller into the processor, the controller of the PCI Express bus, and also to operate under the FSB bus. The new socket viconan does not have a direct connection to the direct bridge, but the processor communicates with it via a blocked DMI bus.

From one side company AMD long ago she transferred the memory controllers from her processor, but Intel went a long way, she transferred the entire brewery to the processor. Insurance, about annual license claims from the side of AMD cannot be moved.

Company Intel As much as possible, I simplified my LGA1156 platform for the redundancy of the new two main nodes: the processor and the air bridge. At that time, the LGA775 platform was known to us for three nodes: a processor, a pivnіchny mіst, and a pivdenny mіst.

processors Clarkdale utrimuyuchi in his pіvnіchny mіst, appeared goiter and urge them to propagate to their supporters the integrated graphic core. As before, the graphics core of Intel integrated with its chipset and called them with the letter "G", for example, Intel G945, Intel G965, Intel G35, Intel G45, then on the current set of system logic for motherboards like Intel for the LGA1156 socket, do not take at its own pivnichny bridge, that graphic core was integrated with the processor.

Integrating graphics core at the processor, the Intel company has gone ahead AMD processors Fusion, as it is also the fault of the mother graphic core in their warehouse, for which ATI was bathing in an important clock for AMD.

Features of the graphics core Clarkdale processors It is practical autonomy, as it manifests itself in the fact that it is possible to win, and it is possible to secure the operation of the graphic subsystem of the system on the basis of an external video card. To exchange data with older video cards, all Clarkdale processors must use the PCI Express bus controller.

Next designate what is between the chipsets Intel P55і Intel H55є y іnshі cardinal vіdmіnnostі, yakі obmezhuyutsya less than іdsutnіstuі FDI interface. The new Intel H55 chipset will mostly improve support for Raid arrays, may change to 12 number of USB ports, as well as improve the ability to switch two video cards over the 8x+8x scheme, which enabled motherboards based on Intel P55. The most advanced functionality for home gaming systems is based on the Intel H57 logic, which supports Raid arrays and allows up to 14 USB ports to protocol 2.0. Unfortunately, the Intel H57 chipset does not allow two video cards to be installed in one system. Tim himself is a coristuvach, owing to the victory over the graphic core of the processor, he allows the possibility of installing another video card into the system.

As a rule, the situation is similar to the fact that the processors on the basis of the chipset Intel H55 unsolder mATX motherboards. Deyaki namagayuchis nadat coristuvachev such promising technologies, such as USB 3.0 and RAID with SATA III ports, solder additional controllers to third-party vendors.

Thermal imaging of new motherboards based on chipsets Intel H55/H57, It will become 5.2 watts, while the Intel P55 chipset is separated by a figure of 4.7 watts. Ale y dan 5.2 Watts are not critical and do not hesitate to install large and expensive cooling systems on their motherboards. An old look at the Gigabyte H55M-USB3 motherboard.

For the life of the processor, there is an 8-pin connector, which supports the modern life support of Intel. The motherboard is easy to start with a 4-pin connector, but it is not recommended to work, shards during acceleration can melt the contacts. If you want to have inadequate security of life through an 8-pin connector, you won’t be told about the garniy rozgin.

The motherboard may have the following expansion slots:
- 1 x PCI Express x16, running in x16 mode
- 1 x PCI Express x16, working in x4 mode
- 2 x PCI
Another ur_zany up to 4x slot to change whether a svidkodіyuchu video card on "invalіda".

That's right, I want to know about the power supply of the cores, so I can move my coolers from the LGA775 socket to this platform. It may be less for two vipadkas:
- a switcher on the motherboard, having transferred two options for opening
- by the method of additional fixing of the cooler

Vrahovyvayuschie the fact that on this motherboard only open for mounting coolers LGA1156, the koristuvach has no more options for retrofitting. I’ll give you a thought for thoughts:
- LGA 775: 72 mm.
- LGA 1156: 75 mm.

On a special note of merit, the motherboard is given for the installation of two chotirippin connectors for the fans of the processor and the case. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that Gigabyte's products include not only PWM fans, but also three outstanding coolers, which a lot of products cannot boast of. Through the EasyTuner software product or the BIOS of the motherboard, you can set temperature thresholds, at which the cooler will spin at the minimum and maximum wrapping frequencies.

Among the pluses of the mother's payment, I want to indicate the abundance of ports for displaying images soldered on the board, - not leather new video card you can boast of such wealth. Stitch a similar set as a whole for a home multimedia station.

Tim is no less, the deputy of one of the most recent video ports, we would like to use another mesh LAN port. Six USB ports to the 2.0 standard, two of them support USB 3.0 - more low enough. On the board itself, there are three more ports for expanding six USB 2.0 ports - for those who are actively playing.

What's up with the chipset Intel H55, then we are guilty of more low-budget solutions, like Gigabyte adding additional controllers to look like a protested product.

For more serious solutions, we would recommend products based on the old Intel P55 ya support SLI/CrossFire on motherboards. Obviously, it’s better to use the built-in graphics of the processor, but it’s not necessary for coristuvachi, as they plan to install two video cards in their system.

The motherboard was protested to be the best option for building office machines and multimedia stations, protecting all current data ports and the availability of all necessary video outputs. With this product, the price is about 150 dollars.
Our portal MegaOglyad gives the product a well-deserved gold medal.