Intel Desktop Board D975XBX2 Technical Product Specification 
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1.1  Overview 
1.1.1  Feature Summary 
Table 1 summarizes the major features of the board. 
Table 1.  Feature Summary 
Form Factor 
ATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters]) 
Processor 
•  Intel
®
 Core™2 Extreme Processor in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 MHz 
system bus  
•  Intel
®
 Core™2 Duo Processor in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 MHz system 
bus  
•  Intel
®
 Pentium
®
 Processor Extreme Edition in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 
or 800 MHz system bus  
•  Intel
®
 Pentium
®
 4 Processor Extreme Edition in an LGA775 socket with a 
1066 MHz system bus  
•  Intel
®
 Pentium
®
 D Processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system 
bus  
•  Intel
®
 Pentium
®
 4 Processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system 
bus 
Memory  
•  Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets 
•  Support for DDR2 800, DDR2 667, and DDR2 533 MHz DIMMs 
•  Support for up to 8 GB of system memory 
•  Support for ECC and non-ECC memory 
Chipset 
Intel
®
 975X Chipset, consisting of: 
•  Intel
®
 
82975X Memory Controller Hub (MCH) 
•  Intel
®
 
82801GR I/O Controller Hub (ICH7-R) or  
Intel
®
 
82801GH I/O Controller Hub (ICH7-DH) 
Audio  Intel
®
 High Definition Audio subsystem 
Legacy I/O Control  Legacy I/O controller for diskette drive, serial, parallel, and PS/2 ports 
USB  Support for USB 2.0 devices 
Peripheral 
Interfaces 
•  Eight USB ports  
•  One serial port 
•  One parallel port 
•  Four Serial ATA interfaces with RAID support 
•  One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support 
•  One diskette drive interface 
•  PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports 
BIOS 
•  Intel
®
 BIOS resident in the SPI Flash device 
•  Support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI), Plug and 
Play, and SMBIOS 
•  Watchdog timer providing automatic recovery after two failed power-on 
self-tests (POSTs) 
Instantly Available 
PC Technology 
•  Support for PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.2 
•  Support for PCI Express* Revision 1.0a 
•  Suspend to RAM support 
•  Wake on PCI, RS-232, front panel, PS/2 devices, and USB ports 
LAN Support 
Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the 
Intel
®
 82573E/82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller 
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