Intel® Desktop Board DX58SO

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* technology. Today’s PC games like Far Cry 2* and Call of Duty: World at War* need a computing platform that delivers maximum multi-threaded CPU support and eye-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 supported processors 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 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
  Support for DDR3 1600 MHzς, DDR3 1333 MHzς, DDR3 1066 MHz
  Support for up to 16 GBς of system memory
  

• Chipset
  Intel® X58 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) using the Sigmatel* 9274D audio codec
  

• 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
  


• 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 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 connecton