Details : The Intel® Desktop Board DX58SO is designed to unleash the power of the all new Intel® Core™ i7 processors with support for up to eight threads of raw CPU processing power, triple channel DDR3 memory and full support for ATI CrossfireX* and NVIDIA SLI* technology. Today’s PC games like Far Cry 2* need a computing platform that delivers maximum multi-threaded CPU support andeye-popping graphics support.
Features and benefits Form factor ATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters]) Processor Click View supportedprocessors for the most current list of compatible processors. At product launch, this desktop board supports: Support for a Intel® Core™ i7 processor in an LGA1366 socket
Memory Four 240-pin DDR3 SDRAMDual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets Support for DDR3 1600 MHz?, DDR3 1333 MHz?, DDR3 1066 MHz Support for up to 16 GB? of system memory
Chipset Intel® X58 Express Chipset
Audio Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in the following configuration: 10-channel (7.1) Dolby Home Theater* Audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and two S/PDIF digital audio outputs (coaxial and optical) using the Realtek* ALC889 audio codec
Video Nvidia SLI* and ATI CrossFire* multi-GPU platform support enables two graphics cards to work together for ultimate 3D gaming performanceand visual quality Full support of next-generation ATI CrossFire*and Nvidia SLI*
LAN support Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem Peripheral interfaces Twelve USB 2.0 ports (8 external ports, 2 internal headers) Six Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports,including 2 eSATA port with RAID support supplied by a Marvell* controller Two IEEE-1394a ports (1 external port, 1 internal header) Consumer IR receiver and emitter (via internal headers)
Expansion capabilities One PCIConventional* bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI Conventional bus add-in card connector) One primary PCI Express* 2.0 x16 (electrical x16) bus add-in card connector One secondary PCI Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x16) bus add-in card connector One PCI Express* 1.0a x16 (electrical x4) bus add-in card connector
Related products Processors Intel® Core™ i7 processor Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition
Chipsets Intel® X58 Express Chipset
