Intel® Desktop Board D5400XS

The ground-breaking Intel® Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform is the first dual socket desktop board from Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation. With dual CPU capability that provides up to 8 core processing, the Intel® Desktop Board D5400XS delivers unmatched performance for advanced digital media creation and editing.
The platform also delivers heart-pounding performance for multi-core enabled game titles, particularly in a multi-tasking environment where simultaneous applications need maximum processing power.

Features and benefits

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


• Processor
  Support for 45nm Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors in an LGA771 socket with a 1600 MHz system bus
  Support for both 45nm & 65nmIntel® Xeon® processors in an LGA771 socket with a 1600, 1333, or 1066 MHz system bus
  


• Memory
  Four Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM)DDR2 Module sockets
  Support for FBDIMM DDR2 800MHz, 667 MHz, DIMMs
  Support for up to 16 GBΣ 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 (optical and 3-pin internal header)
  


• 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
  


• Microsoft Windows Vista Premium* Ready
  With a PC built with Intel® processors and an Intel® Desktop Board, you can experience a more responsive and manageable environment of Microsoft Windows Vista including a new visual sophistication of the Microsoft Windows Aero* interface.