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1 Desktop Board Features
This chapter briefly describes the main features of Intel
®
Desktop Board D955XBK. Table 1
summarizes the major features of the desktop board.
Table 1. Feature Summary
Form Factor
ATX (12.00” x 9.60”)
Processor
Support for an Intel
®
processor in the LGA775 package with 1066/800 MHz
front side bus
Main Memory
Four 240-pin SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
• 667/533 MHz dual channel DDR2 SDRAM interface
• Designed to support up to 8 GB of system memory
Chipset
Intel
®
955X Express Chipset consisting of:
• Intel
®
82955X Memory Controller Hub (MCH) with Direct Media Interface
• Intel
®
82801GR I/O Controller Hub (ICH7R) supporting Intel
®
Matrix Storage
Technology
Audio
• Intel 955X Express Chipset
• Intel
®
High Definition Audio codec
• Up to 8-channel audio with jack sensing
Expansion
Capabilities
• Up to three PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus connector 2)
• One PCI Express x16 connector
• One PCI Express x4 (routed to the physical x16 connector)
• One PCI Express x1 connector
LAN Subsystem
Intel
®
82573V or 82573L Gigabit Ethernet LAN controller with RJ-45 connector
BIOS
• Intel
®
Platform Innovation Framework for Extensible Firmware Interface
• 8 Mbit flash memory
• Support for SMBIOS
• Intel
®
Rapid BIOS Boot
• Intel
®
Express BIOS Update
RAID
• Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology for Serial ATA
• SATALink* for Serial ATA
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