1,205 Posts served
4,986 Conversations started
- Atom
- Bit Stories
- Cool Software
- Customer Support
- Events
- Financial Software Industry
- Gaming
- Graphics
- Intel SW Partner Program
- Intel® Software Network 2.0
- Manageability
- Mobility
- Multicore
- Open Source
- Social Media & Virtual Worlds
- Software Engineering
- Threading Building Blocks
- University Curriculum
- Virtualization
- What If Software
- XML Software
Intel® Desktop Board D5400XS @ Amazon.Com
By Doug Holland (Intel) (73 posts) on April 21, 2008 at 10:24 am
In my previous blog post, where I introduced you to the amazing new Intel D5400XS desktop board which features a dual-socket capability allowing you to use two quad core processors within your system, several of you commented about the boards intial availability.
Well I'm happy to now tell you that this morning when looked for the board on Amazon.com, it is reported as being In Stock and available to ship!!!
May the force, powered by eight cores, be with you ...
If, like me, you are a virtualization junkie then I would definately consider this board for your next Workstation. If you are a serious gamer, then it goes without saying ... you want this board!!!
Categories: Gaming, Multicore, Software Engineering, Virtualization
Comments (4) 
By EdwardOCallaghan on April 21st, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Hi,
I am looking into a upgrade and was wondering, hows Solaris (SXCE) support on this ?
Is everything supported ?
Regards,
Edward.
By Doug Holland on April 21st, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I believe Solaris will fully support this board with two quad core processors installed, although you may like to first check with Sun Microsystems. I recently installed the latest May 2008 release of Solaris 10 for x86 / x64 platform and was very impressed with how it performed, no longer do I miss my Sun Ultra 5 Workstation ;)
By Fernando on May 11th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Is it possible to run Windows 2003 with this board?
By Doug Holland on May 11th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Although Windows 2003 is not expressly listed on the downloads site for this board, I would assume that the drivers for either Windows XP or Windows Vista would work. You might wish to call Intel's technical support engineers and ask them directly and maybe I'd suggest asking what the support for Windows Server 2008 would likely be? Windows Server 2008 has been able to use Windows Vista drivers on my systems although they are not based upon this board.