Sunday, March 2, 2008

Intel® Desktop Board D5400XS

Intel has released a new desktop board in their desktop extreme series. It can take upto 2 quad core processors and can run both SLI and Crossfire at full speed (all sockets x16) with 4 video cards. Unfortunately it only supports upto DDR2-800 RAM and if you're going to dish out around US$600 for it then it isn't enough. But, overall it looks like a great motherboard.

Below are its specs:

Form Factor

Extended ATX (eATX) (12.00 inches by 13 inches [304.80 millimeters by 330.2 millimeters])

Processor
Memory
  • Four Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) DDR2 Module sockets
  • Support for FBDIMM DDR2 800MHz, 667 MHz, DIMMs
  • Support for up to 8 GB of system memory
  • Support for ECC and non-ECC memory
Chipset Intel® 5400 Express Chipset
Audio

Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in the following configuration:

  • 8-channel (7.1) Dolby Home Theater Audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and two S/PDIF digital audio outputs (coaxial and optical)
Nvidia SLI* and ATI CrossFire* multi-GPU platform support

Nvidia SLI and ATI CrossFire technology enables two graphics cards to work together for ultimate 3D gaming performance and visual quality

I/O control I/O controller for Consumer IR
LAN support

Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem

Peripheral interfaces
  • 10 USB 2.0 ports (6 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)
  • One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support (2 devices supported)
Expansion capabilities
  • Two PCI Conventional* bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to both PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors)
  • Four primary PCI Express* 1.1 x16 (electrical x16) bus add-in card connector


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