Product Description

The Intel Desktop Board DP35DP Media Series in the ATX form factor delivers improved performance and capabilities for multimedia creation and enjoyment. With support for Intel quad-core processors and Intel Viiv processor technology, this desktop board merges the energy-efficient power of the Intel Core 2 Quad processor with enhanced expandability, and consumer electronics integration.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20249 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Intel
• Model: BOXDP35DPM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, 2.65 pounds
• Memory: 0MB
• Processors: 0

Features

• ATX MBD S775 1333 DDR2 PCIE GETH

Amazon.com Product Description
With the growing popularity of user-generated media, peer-to-peer sharing and the uploading and viewing of streaming video, photos and more, it's no secret that the creation and sharing of digital entertainment is on the rise. From tech-savvy hobbyists to professional designers, today's users need hardware that can run the advanced multimedia tools needed to create and enjoy audio, video and more.

Intel® Media Series Desktop Boards Product Highlight
Incredibly versatile, Intel® Media Series Desktop Boards are designed to support high-bandwidth interfaces and are ideal for running demanding entertainment, education, and gaming applications. Big, unwieldy media files can quickly overcome mainstream desktop PCs. Intel Media Series Desktop Boards allow users to experience HD videos in surround sound, design school projects or presentations, or upload vacation videos right out of the box, and with superior speed and efficiency.

Onboard Audio
Utilizing the Intel® High Definition audio chipset, the Intel® Media series delivers rich, realistic 360° Dolby Home Theater audio up to 8-channel, 7.1 surround sound. Included Dolby Control Center software allows you to tweak and adjust your audio experience to meet your exacting requirements. Immerse yourself in sound as you enjoy the latest film in high definition or simply relax with some favorite tunes. Whatever you do, enjoy every decibel coming at you in all directions.

Quad-Core Compatibility
With support for Intel's latest quad-core processors, Intel® Desktop Media Series Boards deliver highly efficient performance for the most demanding entertainment applications. With multiple computing "brains", new multi-core processing systems can run resource intensive games and multimedia applications with phenomenal ease and superior responsiveness.

Advanced Technical Specifications

• Supported CPU
  • CPU Socket Type: LGA775
  • CPU Type: Intel® Core™2 Quad / Intel® Core™2 Duo / Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core / Intel® Celeron® Dual-Core / Intel® Celeron®
• Chipsets
  • North Bridge: Intel® P35 Express Chipset
• Memory
  • Memory Slots: 4x240-pin
  • Memory Standard: DDR2 667/800 MHz
  • Maximum Supported Memory: 8 GB
• Expansion Slots
  • PCI Express x16 connectors: 1
  • PCI Express x1 connections: 3
  • PCI bus connectors: 3
• Storage Devices
  • PATA: 1
  • SATA 3Gb/s: 6
  • eSATA: 1
• Onboard Audio
  • Audio Chipset: Intel® High Definition Audio
  • Audio Channels: 8-channel (7.1) Dolby Home Theater
  • S/PDIF Out: 2 digital audio outputs
  • Audio Ports: 5 analog audio outputs
• Onboard LAN
  • Max LAN Speed: 10/100/1000 Mbits/sec
• Onboard USB
  • Onboard USB: 12 USB 2.0 ports
• Onboard IEEE 1394
  • Onboard IEEE 1394: 2 IEEE1394a ports (1 back panel connector, 1 header)
• Physical Spec
  • Form Factor: ATX
  • Dimensions: 12 inches x 9.6 inches (304.80 mm x 243.84 mm)

Customer Reviews

Good price motherboard
This motherboard is a great buy for casual users who are not thinking of overclocking or don't mind that only 1.8v memory seems to be the only way to max out your memory, the mother board does work as advertized.

Works great with Core 2 Quad and 4 gig of memory, sound is acceptable.

I found no problem with it, once I upgraded the bios, but I did have some problems with heat and bios malfunctions, once I downloaded and upgraged the bios all the problems where gone.

There is a lot to like about this motherboard, just make sure you use 1.8v memory or you will have plenty of headaches.

Really good MOBO if youre building a media center
Like the title says, its a really good mother board if youre building a media center, i put this one together with a evga geforce 8800 GTS and a core 2 quad, with some hyperx ram... its just beautiful to hear and see!!! the only con i found was support for only 2 ide devices, so it means if you have 2 whatever drives... you have to set up all your hd on sata.

Something you should know before you buy this Mobo...
Before you decide to buy this board and intend to use win XP you should know this:

You will need to install that RAID/SATA driver into the hard disk before you boot to the XP installation, even if you have one hard drive. Otherwise the installation will stop. The problem is that this driver is on the CD that came with the board and on a floppy. You can't use the CD because XP doesn't let you get it from there before installation and you can't use the Floppy because this board doesn't support it. Is so stupid to put the driver on a diskette if the board doesn't even have a floppy connector but you can try a USB floppy to install and use F6 on windows installation to load the drivers. I didn't want to buy a $20 USB floppy just to do that (it is not guaranteed that it will recognize the USB floppy), so I had to create a personalized windows disk by copying my original Windows CD and adding the SATA drivers to it (Slipstream).

If I had known this before I wouldn't bought this board. With other Mobos you don't have to go trough this process.

The reason I'm giving this product 3 stars is that is very stable, it has many features and it's working perfectly after I installed everything. It's not bad if you are setting up a Quad Core or a Core 2 Duo machine and will use Windows Vista.

Note that if you will use Vista you won't have any problems because it will let you load the drivers from the CD during the installation.