Product Guide for Intel Desktop Board DX79SI

Intel Desktop Board DX79SI Product Guide

Table 1. Feature Summary (continued)

Peripheral

Interfaces

• Four USB 3.0 ports:

― Two ports routed to the back panel

― Two ports routed to an onboard connector

• Fourteen USB 2.0 ports:

― Six ports routed to the back panel

― Eight ports routed to four onboard USB headers

• Two IEEE 1394a ports:

― One port routed to the back panel

― One port routed to an IEEE 1394a header

• Six Serial ATA (SATA) channels through the Intel X79 PCH:

― Two onboard 6.0 Gb/s SATA channels (blue connectors)

― Four onboard 3.0 Gb/s SATA channels (black connectors)

LAN Support Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mb/s) dual LAN subsystem using Intel

82579L

and Intel

82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controllers

BIOS

• Intel

BIOS resident in an SPI Flash device

• Support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI), Plug

and Play, and SMBIOS

• Fast Boot

• Support for advanced overclocking

Power Management

• Support for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)

specification

• Suspend to RAM (STR)

• Wake on USB, PCI, PCI Express, LAN, CIR, and front panel

• ENERGY STAR* capable

Hardware

Management

• Hardware monitoring and fan control through the Nuvoton I/O

controller

• Voltage sense to detect out of range power supply voltages

• Thermal sense to detect out of range thermal values

• Four fan headers using PWM control

• Four fan sense inputs used to monitor fan activity

• Fan speed control using voltage control (4-pin fan headers for

processor, front, rear, and auxiliary fans) with selectable support in

the BIOS for 3-wire fans

• Support for the Platform Environmental Control Interface (PECI)