Product Description; Overview; Feature Summary - Intel DX79TO Specification

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Product Description

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Overview

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Feature Summary

Table 2 summarizes the major features of the board.
Table 2. Feature Summary
Form Factor
Processor
Memory
Chipset
Audio
Legacy I/O Control
Peripheral
Interfaces
ATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])
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• Intel Core™ i7 and Intel
― Two PCI Express 3.0 x16 graphics interfaces
― Four DDR3 memory channels (Quad Channel total of 8 DIMMs)
• Eight 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
arranged as four channels
• Support for DDR3 2400 MHz, 2133 MHz, 1866 MHz, 1600 MHz, 1333 MHz,
and 1066 MHz DIMMs
• Support for 1 Gb, 2 Gb, and 4 Gb memory technology
• Support for up to 64 GB of system memory with eight DIMMs using 4 Gb
memory technology
• Support for non-ECC and ECC memory
• Support for 1.35 V low voltage JEDEC memory
• Support for XMP memory
• Support for manual memory over clocking (voltage, clock, ratio)
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Intel X79 Express Chipset consisting of the Intel
Hub (PCH)
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Intel High Definition Audio subsystem using the Realtek* ALC892 audio codec
Nuvoton* legacy I/O controller for Consumer Infrared (CIR)
• Two USB 3.0 ports are implemented with stacked back panel connectors
(blue)
• Fourteen USB 2.0 ports:
― Six ports are implemented with stacked back panel connectors (black)
― Eight front panel ports implemented through four internal headers
• Two Serial ATA (SATA) 6.0 Gb/s interfaces through the Intel X79 Express
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Chipset with Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID support (blue)
• Four internal SATA 3.0 Gb/s interfaces through the Intel X79 Express Chipset
with Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID support (black)
• Two IEEE 1394a ports:
― One port via a back panel connector
― One port via a front-panel header (blue)
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Xeon processors in an LGA2011 socket:
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X79 Platform Controller
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