Desktop Board DX58SO

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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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:
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




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Processors
Intel® Core™ i7 processor
Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition
Chipsets
Intel® X58 Express Chipset