Kassens indhold
Hele herligheden ankom i en stor brun papkasse direkte fra Intel Demo Build Centre, Michigan USA. Den indeholder et styk bundkort med to QX9775 cpu'er, to stænger ram og to Zalman CNPS9500AT kølere.
Rammene er nok det svageste led i denne sammenhæng. Der er tale om 2x2GB DDR2-800 ECC moduler, og de er helt sikkert specielle, men overclocke det duer de ikke til. Mere om det et par sider længere omme.
Cpu'erne er helt i top. To styks QX9775 Xeon Quadcore Extreme på 3.2GHz med en 400MHz frontsidebus, og bygget på 45nm teknik. Så bliver det ikke vildere. En QX9775 Xeon er indvendigt fuldstændig identisk med en QX9770 som vi tidligere har testet her på hwt. Eneste forskel er at 9775 er til socket 771, og QX9770 er til socket 775.
Kølerne til de to cpu'er er af ganske svær kaliber. Der medfølger to styks Zalman CNPS9500AT, der er en af de fineste og mest effektive kølere på markedet.
Det er seriøst grej, og et meget fint tiltag fra Intels side. Jeg var dælme også blevet skuffet hvis der havde ligget to standard boxkølere i kassen. Resten af udstyret må man så selv bringe til bordet. Vi spæder til med en Enermax 1000W PSU, to Raptor harddiske i RAID 0 og et 8800GTS grafikkort.
Specifikationer
Form Factor
SSI/EATX (330.20 millimeters [13.00 inches] x 304.80 millimeters [12.00 inches])
Processor
Support for up to two identical Intel® processors in the LGA771 package.
Main Memory
• Four 240-pin, DDR2 SDRAM Fully-Buffered Dual Inline Memory
Module (FBDIMM) sockets
• Supports for 800/667 MHz SDRAM
• Support for up to 16 GB of system memory
Chipset
Intel® 5400 Chipset consisting of:
• Intel® 5400 Memory Controller Hub (MCH)
• Intel® 6321ESB I/O Controller Hub
Graphics
• Support for multiple PCI Express* graphics cards
Audio
• Independent multi-streaming 8-channel (7.1) audio and 2-channel audio subsystem, featuring:
? Intel® High Definition Audio interface
? IDT* STAC9274 audio codec
• HD Audio Link header
• HD Audio front panel header
• Onboard 3-pin S/PDIF connector
• ADAT* optical interface support from a back panel S/PDIF optical Port
Expansion Capabilities
• Four PCI Express x16 ports
• Two PCI* bus connectors
Legacy I/O Support
Legacy I/O Controller that provides Consumer Infrared (CIR) support
Peripheral Interfaces
• Up to 10 USB 2.0 ports:
? Six ports routed to the back panel
? Four ports routed to two onboard USB headers
• Up to two IEEE 1394a ports:
? One port routed to a back panel connector
? One port routed to an IEEE 1394a header
• Six Serial ATA (SATA) ports (3.0 Gb/s) via the Intel 6321ESB I/O Controller Hub
• Two external SATA (eSATA) ports via a discrete controller
• One IDE interface with ATA-66/100 support (two devices)
RAID
• Intel® Matrix Storage Technology for Serial ATA for the six onboard SATA ports
• Marvell* Storage Technology for the two eSATA ports
LAN Support
Intel® 82573L Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mb/s) Ethernet LAN controller
including an RJ-45 back panel connector with integrated status LEDs
BIOS
• Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for extensible firmware interface
• 16 Mb Firmware Hub
• Support for SMBIOS
• Intel® Rapid BIOS Boot
• Intel® Express BIOS Update
Power Management
• Support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
• Suspend to RAM (STR)
• Wake on USB, PCI, PCI Express, LAN, CIR, and front panel
• ENERGY STAR* capable
Hardware Management
Hardware monitor with:
• Four fan sensing inputs used to monitor fan activity
• Intel® Precision Cooling Technology fan speed control
• Voltage sensing to detect out of range values
Supported Operating Systems
• Microsoft Windows Vista* Ultimate
• Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise
• Microsoft Windows Vista Business
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic
• Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition
• Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition
• Microsoft Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition
• Microsoft Windows* XP Media Center Edition 2005
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Home