Intel Desktop Board D955XBK 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 
Support for an Intel
®
 Pentium
®
 4 processor in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 or 
800 MHz system bus 
Memory  
•  Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets 
•  Support for 667 and 533 MHz DDR2 DIMMs 
•  Support for up to 8 GB of system memory 
•  Support for ECC and non-ECC memory 
Chipset 
Intel
®
 955X Chipset, consisting of: 
• Intel
® 
82955X Memory Controller Hub (MCH) 
• Intel
® 
82801GR I/O Controller Hub (ICH7-R) 
•  Firmware Hub (FWH) or Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash device 
Video 
One PCI Express* x16 connector supporting PCI Express x16 graphics cards  
Audio 
Intel
®
 High Definition Audio subsystem 
I/O Control 
LPC Bus I/O controller 
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 FWH or SPI Flash device) 
•  Support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI), Plug and Play, 
SMBIOS, and Intel
®
 Active Management Technology (AMT) 
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/82573V/82574V Gigabit Ethernet Controller 
Expansion 
Capabilities 
•  Three PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI 
Conventional bus connector 2) 
•  One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector 
•  One Secondary PCI Express x16/x4 bus add-in card connector 
•  One PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connector 
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