Supermicro X8SAX Motherboard

• Storage:
  
  • Intel ICH10R SATA 3.0Gbps Controller
  • RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support (Windows)
  • RAID 0, 1, 10 support (Linux)

• Rear Panel I/O Ports:
  • Super I/O: Winbond 83627DHG chip
  • Clock Generator: CK505
  • 6 Serial ATA ports
  • 6 SATA hard drives supported
  • 1 Floppy controller; 1.44 MB
  • 2x RJ45 LAN ports
  • 8x USB rear ports
  • 2x USB on-board
  • 1x USB internal header(2 ports)
  • Total 12 USB 2.0 Compliant
  • Realtek ALC883 7.1 HD audio
  • 1x S/PDIF digital output
  • PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports
  • 2 Fast UART 16550 serial header
    

• Hardware Monitoring:
  
  • Monitors for CPU Cores, +1.8V, +3.3V, +5V, ±12V, +3.3V Standby, +5V Standby, VBAT, HT, Memory, Chipset Voltages.
  • 6-Phase-switching voltage regulator with auto-sense from 0.8375V-1.60V
  • FANS: Total of six fan headers supporting up to 6 fans
  • Six 4-pin fan headers
  • 6x fans with tachometer status monitoring
  • Status monitor for speed control
  • Status monitor for on/off control
  • Support 3-pin fans (w/o speed control)
  • Low noise fan speed control
  • Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) fan connectors
  • Temperature: Monitoring for CPU and chassis environment
  • CPU thermal trip support
  • FC temperature sensing logic
  • Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2) support
  • PECI
  • CPU / System Overheat LED
  • Suspend-state indicator LED
  • +5V Standby alert LED
  • Chassis intrusion detection
  • Chassis intrusion header
  • RoHS
  • Operating Temperature: 10 °to 35 °C (50 °to 95 °F)
  • Non-operating Temperature: -40 °to 70 °C (-40 °to 158 °F)
  • Operating Relative Humidity: 8% to 90% (non-condensing)
  • Non-operating Relative Humidity: 5 to 95% (non-condensing)
    

Motherboard Specifications

• Model:
  • Supermicro X8SAX Motherboard
    

• Processor Support:
  • LGA 1366 Socket
  • Intel ® Core i7 990X, i7-980X, i7-975 and i7-965  Extreme Edition
  • Intel ® Core i7  series
  • Intel ® Xeon ® 5600/5500  series
  • Intel ® Xeon ® 3600/3500  series

• Chipset:
  
  • Intel ® X58 Express chipset
  • ICH10R + PXH/V

• FSB:
  • QPI (up to 6.4 GT/s)

• Memory:
  
  • Supports up to 24 GB 1333 / 1066 / 800MHz DDR3 ECC / non-ECC Un-Buffered memory
  • Three Channel memory bus
  • 6 DIMM sockets
  • 1333 / 1066 / 800MHz Un- Buffered ECC / non-ECC DDR3 SDRAM 72-bit, 240-pin gold-plated DIMMs
  • 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB
  • 1.5 V
  • Error Detection: Corrects single-bit errors
  • Detects double-bit errors (using ECC memory)
  • Supports Intel ® x4 and x8 Single Device Data Correction (SDDC)

• Expansion Slots:
  
  • 2 (x16) PCI-e 2.0 slots
  • 1 (x4) PCI-e slot (using x8 slot)
  • 2x 64-bit 133/100MHz PCI-X (3.3V) slots
  • 1x 32-bit PCI slot

• On-Board Audio:
  • Realtek ALC883 7.1 HD audio

• On-Board LAN:
  
  • Dual Intel ® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
  • Supports 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T, RJ45 output

• Form Factor/Dimensions:
  • ATX
  • 12" x 10" (30.5cm x 25.4cm)
• Manageability:
  
• SuperDoctor ® III
• Watch Dog
• NMI
• Power Configurations: ACPI / ACPM Power Management
• Main Switch Override Mechanism
• Keyboard Wakeup from Soft-Off
• Power-on mode for AC power recovery
• Internal/External modem ring-on
• Suspend to RAM (STR)
• Special Features:
  • Important Chassis Notes: To support the new generation Intel ® Xeon ® processor-based motherboards, aRevision K  chassis is recommended for most models. Please talk to your sales representative or follow the link for details.
• BIOS:
• 4Mb SPI Flash EEPROM with AMI BIOS
• Features: DMI 2.3
• PCI 2.2
• ACPI 1.0 / 2.0
• USB Keyboard support
• SMBIOS 2.3