c. 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:

Processor:

• Support for 45nm Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors in an LGA771 socket with a 1600 MHz system bus .
• Support for both 45nm & 65nm Intel® 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.

LAN support:

• Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem.