Ivy Bridge-E Processors is expected in the third quarter, will be designed to be installed in the processor socket LGA2011. Thus the motherboard is equipped with socket X79 Dark. The motherboard is based on the chipset Intel X79.
E-ATX motherboard has a 13-phase power system (12 +1) and eight slots for DDR3, which can be set up to 64 GB of memory.
Equipment includes ten ports SATA, six are SATA 6 Gb / s. Expansion options are five slots PCI-Express x16, which can be turned on and off individually. There is also a two-port Gigabit Ethernet, four-port USB 3.0, two ports eSATA, Bluetooth and multi-channel audio codec.