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Intel DX58so Motherboard Review
February 22nd, 2010 | 
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Features and benefits
Form factor
ATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])
Processor
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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 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 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 connector
Related products
Processors
- Intel® Core™ i7 processor
- Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition
Chipsets
- Intel® X58 Express Chipset
WHERE YOU CAN BUY:
AMAZON.COM $219.99: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Extreme-Tri-Channel-CrossFireX-Overclocking/dp/B001ISJONM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1266903306&sr=8-1
TIGERDIRECT.COM $229.99: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4240073&CatId=4070
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