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Today’s PC games and compute intense applications need a computing platform that delivers maximum multi-threaded CPU support and eye-popping graphics support. The Intel® Desktop Board DX58SO is designed to unleash the power of the 32nm Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition with six cores and support for up to twelve threads of raw CPU processing power, triple channel DDR3 memory and full support for ATI CrossfireX* and NVIDIA SLI* technology.
Features and benefits
| Form factor |
ATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters]) |
| Processor |
* Intel® Core™ i7-960 processor series in an LGA1156 socket
* Intel® Core™ i7-950 processor series in an LGA1156 socket |
| Memory |
*  Four 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM Dual 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
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| 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
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| Video |
* Nvidia SLI* and ATI CrossFire* multi-GPU platform support enables two graphics cards to work together for ultimate 3D gaming performance and visual quality
* Full support of next-generation ATI CrossFire* and Nvidia SLI* |
| LAN support |
* Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem
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| 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)
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| Expansion capabilities |
* One PCI Conventional* 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
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Related products
| Processors |
* Intel® Core™ i7 processors
* Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition |
| Chipsets |
* Intel® X58 Express Chipset
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