If you've got the POWER…the SPEED…the PERFORMANCE on your team, then you've got the WINNING EDGE.
With the Intel® Desktop Board D975XBX2, supporting the Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processor, your desktop PC will become the ultimate weapon. You will scream through the latest games, level after level.
Add the world's best gaming processor and the D975XBX2 to your game strategy - a combination so BAD that it's GOOD.
The Intel® Desktop Board D975XBX2 is Microsoft Windows Vista* Premium Ready. The Intel® 975X Express Chipset fully supports the visually stunning Windows Aero* user interface with amazing transition effects and realistic animations.
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Features and benefitsForm Factor ATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])
Processor Support for Intel® Core™2 Quad processor in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 MHz system bus
Support for Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Pentium® Processor Extreme Edition in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 or 800 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading Technology◊ (in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 MHz system bus)
Support for an Intel® Pentium® D processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel Intel® Pentium® 4 processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology◊ (in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system bus)
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Memory Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
Support for DDR2 800, DDR2 667, or DDR2 533 MHz DIMMs
Support for up to 8 GBΣ of system memory
Support for ECC and non-ECC memory
Chipset Intel® 975X Express Chipset
Audio Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in one of the following configurations:
8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and two S/PDIF digital audio outputs (coaxial and optical) using the Sigmatel* 9274D audio codec
6-channel (5.1) audio subsystem with three analog audio outputs using the Sigmatel 9227 audio codec
ATI CrossFire* Multi-GPU Platform Support ATI CrossFire technology enables two ATI graphics cards to work together for ultimate 3D gaming performance and visual quality
I/O Control Legacy I/O controller for diskette drive, serial, parallel, and PS/2* ports
LAN Support Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82573E/82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Peripheral Interfaces Eight USB 2.0 ports
Four Serial ATA interfaces with RAID support (four additional interfaces available with optional discrete RAID controller)
One parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
One diskette drive interface
One serial port
One parallel port
PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
Expansion Capabilities Two PCI Conventional* bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to both PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors)
One Primary PCI Express* x16 (electrical x16 or x8) bus add-in card connector
One Secondary PCI Express* x16 (electrical x8) bus add-in card connector
One PCI Express* x16 (electrical x4) bus add-in card connector
Microsoft Vista* Premium Ready With a PC built with Intel® Core™2 Duo or Intel® Core™2 Quad processors, and the Intel® Desktop Board, you can experience a more responsive and manageable environment of Microsoft Windows Vista* including a new visual sophistication of the Windows Aero* interface.
Related productsProcessors Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Intel® Pentium® Processor Extreme Edition
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading Technology◊
Intel® Pentium® D processor
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology◊
Chipsets Intel® 975X Express Chipset
◊ Hyper-Threading Technology (HT Technology) requires a computer system with an Intel® Processor supporting HT Technology and an HT Technology enabled chipset, BIOS, and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. See www.intel.com/products/ht/hyperthreading_more.htm for more information including details on which processors support HT Technology.
Σ System resources and hardware (such as PCI and PCI Express*) require physical memory address locations that can reduce available addressable system memory. This could result in a reduction of as much as 1GB or more of physical addressable memory being available to the operating system and applications, depending on the system configuration and operating system.
