Intel i5-2500K BX80623I52500K User Manual

Product codes
BX80623I52500K
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Datasheet, Volume 1
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Introduction
• Traditional AGP style traffic (asynchronous non-snooped, PCI-X Relaxed ordering)
• Peer segment destination posted write traffic (no peer-to-peer read traffic) in 
Virtual Channel 0
— DMI -> PCI Express* Port 0
• 64-bit downstream address format, but the processor never generates an address 
above 64 GB (Bits 63:36 will always be zeros)
• 64-bit upstream address format, but the processor responds to upstream read 
transactions to addresses above 64 GB (addresses where any of Bits 63:36 are 
nonzero) with an Unsupported Request response. Upstream write transactions to 
addresses above 64 GB will be dropped.
• Re-issues Configuration cycles that have been previously completed with the 
Configuration Retry status
• PCI Express* reference clock is 100-MHz differential clock
• Power Management Event (PME) functions
• Dynamic width capability
• Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI and MSI-X) messages
• Polarity inversion
Note:
The processor does not support PCI Express* Hot-Plug.
1.2.3
Direct Media Interface (DMI)
• DMI 2.0 support
• Four lanes in each direction
• 5 GT/s point-to-point DMI interface to PCH is supported
• Raw bit-rate on the data pins of 5.0 GB/s, resulting in a real bandwidth per pair of 
500 MB/s given the 8b/10b encoding used to transmit data across this interface. 
Does not account for packet overhead and link maintenance.
• Maximum theoretical bandwidth on interface of 2 GB/s in each direction 
simultaneously, for an aggregate of 4 GB/s when DMI x4 
• Shares 100-MHz PCI Express* reference clock
• 64-bit downstream address format, but the processor never generates an address 
above 64 GB (Bits 63:36 will always be zeros)
• 64-bit upstream address format, but the processor responds to upstream read 
transactions to addresses above 64 GB (addresses where any of Bits 63:36 are 
nonzero) with an Unsupported Request response. Upstream write transactions to 
addresses above 64 GB will be dropped. 
• Supports the following traffic types to or from the PCH
— DMI  ->  DRAM
— DMI -> processor core
 
(Virtual Legacy Wires (VLWs), Resetwarn, or MSIs only)
— Processor core -> DMI
• APIC and MSI interrupt messaging support
— Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI and MSI-X) messages
• Downstream SMI, SCI and SERR error indication