Owner's Manual

Hardware Installation - 10 -
1-2 Product Specications
CPU

Support for an Intel
®
Core
™
i7 series processor in the LGA1366 package
(Go to GIGABYTE's website for the latest CPU support list.)

L3 cache varies with CPU
QPI

4.8GT/s, 6.4GT/s
Chipset

 North Bridge: Intel
®
X58 Express Chipset


 South Bridge: Intel
®
ICH10R
Memory

6 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 24 GB of system memory
(Note 1)

Dual/3 channel memory architecture

Support for DDR3 2200/1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules

Support for non-ECC memory modules

 SupportforExtremeMemoryProle(XMP)memorymodules


 (Go to GIGABYTE's website for the latest supported memory speeds and
memory modules.)
Audio
   
Realtek ALC892 codec

HighDenitionAudio

2/4/5.1/7.1-channel

Support for Dolby
®
Home Theater
    
Support for S/PDIF In/Out

Support for CD In
LAN

1 x Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
Expansion Slots

2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1/PCIEX16_2)
(Note 2)
(The PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_2 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4_1)
(Note 3)

3 x PCI Express x1 slots

1 x PCI slot
Multi-Graphics

Support for ATI CrossFireX
™
/NVIDIA SLI technology
Technology (The PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_2 slots only.)
Storage Interface

South Bridge:
- 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices
- Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
USB

South Bridge:
- Up to 12 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (6 on the back panel, 6 via the USB brackets
connected to the internal USB headers)

NEC D720200F1 chip:
- Up to 2 USB 3.0/2.0 ports on the back panel