Intel® Desktop Board D5400XS

The ground-breaking Intel® Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform is the first dual socket desktop board from Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation. With dual CPU capability that provides up to 8 core processing, the Intel® Desktop Board D5400XS delivers unmatched performance for advanced digital media creation and editing.

The platform also delivers heart-pounding performance for multi-core enabled game titles, particularly in a multi-tasking environment where simultaneous applications need maximum processing power.

Features and benefits

Form Factor	Extended ATX (eATX) (12.00 inches by 13 inches [304.80 millimeters by 330.2 millimeters])
Processor	Support for 45nm Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors in an LGA771 socket with a 1600 MHz system bus Support for both 45nm & 65nmIntel® Xeon® processors in an LGA771 socket with a 1600, 1333, or 1066 MHz system bus
Memory	Four Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM)DDR2 Module sockets Support for FBDIMM DDR2 800MHz, 667 MHz, DIMMs Support for up to 16 GBΣ of system memory Support for ECC and non-ECC memory
Chipset	Intel® 5400 Express Chipset
Audio	Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in the following configuration: 8-channel (7.1) Dolby Home Theater* audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and two S/PDIF digital audio outputs (optical and 3-pin internal header)
Nvidia SLI* and ATI CrossFire* multi-GPU platform support	Nvidia SLI and ATI CrossFire technology enables two graphics cards to work together for ultimate 3D gaming performance and visual quality
I/O control	I/O controller for Consumer IR
LAN support	Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem
Peripheral interfaces	10 USB 2.0 ports (6 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) One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support (2 devices supported)
Expansion capabilities	Two PCI Conventional* bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to both PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors) Four primary PCI Express* 1.1 x16 (electrical x16) bus add-in card connector
Microsoft Windows Vista Premium* Ready	With a PC built with Intel® processors and an Intel® Desktop Board, you can experience a more responsive and manageable environment of Microsoft Windows Vista including a new visual sophistication of the Microsoft Windows Aero* interface.