To coincide with the establish of the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 ExtremeCPUs, lots producers published novel or modified CPU Boards to defendIntel's cutting down edge Procesor. Over the past elite months, we'veaccepted a appear at a handful of these CPU Boards, admittingproductions based on chipsets from Intel as well as NVIDIA. Today,still, we're becoming to focus on a trio of boards all grounded onIntel's current flagship chipset for the Core 2 and Pentium D, the975X Express.

The 975X Express has been useable for rather approximately time. Infact, it was published in late 2005 only earlier the Presler-basedPentium uttermost version 955, which is an eternity in tech-years.The longevity of the 975X Express is a testament to its functioning,constancy, and characteristic set. To date, NVIDIA is the just othercompany to accept published a chipset for the LGA775 platform that ismore characteristic-rich and as extremely considered as 975X Express.

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As we've so soon remarked, the chipset at the heart of the 3 CPU Boardswe'll be appearing at here is Intel's 975X Express. The 975X Expressis very like to the more previous 955 that it replaced at the top ofIntel's desktop chipset line-up, but the 82975X Northbridge that'scomponent of 975X has a more flexible PCI Express lane form and a fewother enhancements.

The 975X appropriates for x16 / x1 or x8 / x8 electrical associations toits PEG slots for high functioning multi-GPU defend (namelyCrossFire). The 975X Express chipset also defends all Intel LGA755CPUs with 800MHz / 1066MHz bus speeds, and it defends up to eight GBof DDR2 RAM (with or without ECC).