Technical Product Specification

Intel Desktop Board DX79TO Technical Product Specification

Table 1. Feature Summary (continued)

BIOS

• Intel

BIOS resident in the SPI Flash device

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

Play, and SMBIOS

• Fast Boot

• Support for advanced over clocking

Instantly Available

PC Technology

• Support for PCI* Local Bus Specification Revision 2.2

• Support for PCI Express* Revision 3.0

• Suspend to RAM support

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

LAN Support

Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/s) LAN subsystem using the Intel

82579L Gigabit

Ethernet Controller

Expansion

Capabilities

• Two PCI Express 3.0 x16 connectors

• Three PCI Express 2.0 x1 bus add-in card connectors from the PCH

• One Conventional PCI bus add-in card connector from the PCH

Hardware Monitor

Subsystem

• 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) with selectable support in BIOS for 3 wire fans

• Support for Platform Environmental Control Interface (PECI)