What's the nMP's motherboard Chipest?

[Rockman413]

HI since nMP is using a Xeon LGA 2011 CPU, can I assume the trashcan's motherboard chipset is X79? or something similar to X79?

 

[AidenShaw]

HI since nMP is using a Xeon LGA 2011 CPU, can I assume the trashcan's motherboard chipset is X79? or something similar to X79?

My Dell T3610 hex core (same E5-1650 v2 CPU as the hex MP6,1) uses a C602 chipset.

This is nearly identical to the X79 - in fact Intel combines the C600 series and X79 on the same datasheet.

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/ww.../datasheets/c600-series-chipset-datasheet.pdf
http://ark.intel.com/products/series/98463/Intel-C600-Series-Chipsets

The C602 and X79 have the same major device ID - in fact CPU-z identifies my C602 as an X79.

 

[DeltaMac]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013/8

This wiki lists the chipset Intel C602J

 

[Rockman413]

meaning, performance wise it's quite close to or even better than X79?

My Dell T3610 hex core (same E5-1650 v2 CPU as the hex MP6,1) uses a C602 chipset.

This is nearly identical to the X79 - in fact Intel combines the C600 series and X79 on the same datasheet.

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/ww.../datasheets/c600-series-chipset-datasheet.pdf
http://ark.intel.com/products/series/98463/Intel-C600-Series-Chipsets

The C602 and X79 have the same major device ID - in fact CPU-z identifies my C602 as an X79.

 

[AidenShaw]

meaning, performance wise it's quite close to or even better than X79?

Performance is probably almost identical.

http://ark.intel.com/compare/64015,66243

The C602 supports some things like vPro and RSTE, and different PCIe configs. The guts are probably the same - quite possibly the chip is the same with different feature sets enabled.