* Support for both 45nm & 65nm Intel® Core™2 Quad processors in an LGA775 socket with a 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
* Support for an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor in an LGA775 socket with a 1333/1066/800 MHz system bus
* Support for an Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system bus
* Support for an Intel® Celeron® 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 MHz, or DDR2 667 MHz DIMMs
* Support for up to 8 GB of system memory
Chipset:
* Intel® P35 Express Chipset
Audio: Intel® High Definition Audio (Intel® HD Audio) subsystem in the following configuration:
* 8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem with 5 analog audio outputs and 1 optical S/PDIF digital audio output using the Sigmatel STAC9271D audio codec
Video: via PCI Express graphics add-in card
I/O Control: Legacy I/O controller for serial port via header
LAN Support: Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Peripheral Interfaces:
* 12 USB 2.0 ports
* 6 Serial ATA 3.0 Gbps ports, including 1 eSATA port with RAID support
* 2 IEEE-1394a interfaces (1 external port, 1 internal header)
* Consumer IR receiver and emitter (via internal headers)
* 1 Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100/133 support (2 devices supported)
* 1 serial port via header
Expansion Capabilities:
* 3 PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors
* 3 PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connector
* 1 PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector
The board works very well so far, I have not experienced any problems with it.
My current setup:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz
RAM: 2 GB DDR2 Corsair 800 MHz CL-5
GPU: GeForce 8800 GTS 512
OS: slamd64 12.1 (64-bit multilib distro)
Kernel: Linux demonslayer 2.6.24.7 #1 SMP Sat Sep 20 18:44:11 EEST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (this is a custom kernel)
Note that you need a more recent kernel or the onboard ethernet won't work. It needs the module called 'e1000e' in order to work. I know that kernel version 2.6.21.5 (slackware 12.0) does NOT have this module available, but version 2.6.24.5 (slackware 12.1) does. Of course, you can probably compile it separately.
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