Intel Desktop Board DX79SI Pictured

Next to other X79 motherboards on display, Intel has their reference boards ready as well.

Check out the pgoto's pf the Intel Desktop Board Extreme Series DX79SI. A socket LGA2011 mobo that has eight DDR3 DIMM slots (four on either side of the socket, two DIMMs per channel).

LGA2011 supports quad-channel DDR3 memory, yielding 33% bandwidth gain over triple-channel DDR3 and 100% gain over dual-channel DDR3. Despite its large memory area, the DX79SI sticks to standard ATX board dimensions.