| Product SKUs |
| MBD-X8SAX -O | X8SAX (Standard Retail Pack) |
| Physical Stats |
| Form Factor | ATX |
| Dimensions | 12" x 10" (30.5cm x 25.4cm) |
| Processor/Cache |
| CPU | LGA 1366 Socket Intel® Core™ i7-980X, i7-975 and i7-965 Extreme Edition Intel® Core™ i7 series Intel® Xeon® 5600/5500 series Intel® Xeon® 3600/3500 series |
| System Bus | QPI (up to 6.4 GT/s) |
| System Memory |
| Memory Capacity | Supports up to 24 GB 1333 / 1066 / 800MHz DDR3 ECC / non-ECC Un-Buffered memory Three Channel memory bus 6 DIMM sockets |
| Memory Type | 1333 / 1066 / 800MHz Un- Buffered ECC / non-ECC DDR3 SDRAM 72-bit, 240-pin gold-plated DIMMs |
| DIMM Sizes | 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB |
| Memory Voltage | 1.5 V |
| On-Board Devices |
| Chipset | Intel® X58 Express chipset ICH10R + PXH/V |
| Serial ATA | Intel ICH10R SATA 3.0Gbps Controller RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support (Windows) RAID 0, 1, 10 support (Linux) |
| Network Controllers | Dual Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller Supports 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T, RJ45 output |
| Audio | Realtek ALC883 7.1 HD audio |
| Super I/O | Winbond 83627DHG chip |
| Input / Output |
| SATA | Two Serial ATA ports ( 3Gbps performance) Two SATA hard drives supported |
| IDE | One EIDE channel supports up to two UDMA IDE devices Supports UDMA Mode 5, PIO Mode 4, and ATA/100 |
| Floppy | 1 Floppy controller; 1.44 MB, 2.88 MB, 3-mode support |
| USB | 4x USB 2.0 compliant (2x ports + 1x header) |
| VGA | 1x VGA port |
| Serial Ports | 1x Fast UART 16550 serial port 1x Serial Header |
| PCI-Express | 1x 32-bit 33MHz PCI (5V) slots |
| Management |
| Software | Watch Dog NMI |
| Power Configurations | ACPI/APM Power Management Power-on mode control for AC power recovery |
| System BIOS |
| BIOS Type | 4Mb Flash EEPROM with AMI BIOS® |
| BIOS Features | Plug and Play (PnP) APM 1.2 DMI 2.3 PCI 2.2 ACPI 1.0 / 2.0 USB Keyboard support Hardware BIOS Virus protection SMBIOS 2.3 RTC (Real Time Clock) Wakeup |