Customer Reviews
Intel Desktop M/B D975XBX ATX 
2008-01-31
Good M/B for a few years back. Still one of my favorites even in this day and age. Easy to configure.
best workstation board existing 2007-11-23
this motherboard never failed or showed any glitch in performance, well right now go for the X38 mainboard coming from Intel
Buyers beware, read this first 
2007-06-27
I purchased this board to build my Intel Core 2 Duo based dream machine. The price is right and it has great specs. It came to me as a surprise that this board was not compatible with a Core 2 Duo processor. Although the specifications on the Intel website state that the Core 2 Duo is one of the compatible processors, this board may come in different flavors or "revisions". The one I got did not boot (to my surprise) and I thought that the video card was faulty. It was not after I tried out a second card that I realized something else was wrong. The merchant bluntly told me that the revision I got was listed as incompatible with Core 2 Duo, but this is not evident because of the information on Intel's website.
The next model, D975XBX2 (with a two at the end) is my recommendation, since it has the added benefit of natively supporting not only Core 2 Quad processors, but also PC2 6400 (800MHz) memory. This board only supports PC2 5400 (667 MHz) memory and up to Core 2 Duo (depending on the revision). You can get it here: Intel D975XBX2 Intel Core 2 Duo Ready Socket 775 ATX Motherboard
Surprise, by incorrect information by the seller and Intel. 
2007-05-28
Hello.
When I buy this motherborad just 7 months, I carried a big surprise. When I buy also an Intel Core 2 Duo processor 6400 2.13Mgz up there all very well when it comes to install the processor on the motherboard did not want this boot, which was looking at my surprise that the product specifications this motherboard not match the BIOS to withstand this kind of processor, but when you buy it on any part of this page warned, by contrast motherboard that was compatible with this type of processor. Fortunately the techniques that helped me to assemble the team to consult INTEL and tubes to update the BIOS of the motherboard. I believe that when a product is sold as the motherboard should report on the BIOS versions available to the product and therefore important thing the year in which manufactures the product. I write this with the purpose that if someone happens you know something like that should review carefully before buying and for the team marketing the store that sells the product of all the correct information that is selling the product.
Thank youIntel Desktop Board D975XBX ATX Motherboard with Intel 975X (Socket 775)
Hola.
Cuando compre esta motherborad hace unos 7 meses,me lleve una gran sorpresa. Al comprarla también compre un PROCESADOR INTEL CORE 2 DUO 6400 2.13Mgz, hasta ahí todo muy bien a la hora de instalar el precesador en la tarjeta madre esta no quiso arrancar, cual fue mi sorpresa que buscando en las especificaciones del producto esta motherboard no esataba configurada en su BIOS para soportar este tipo de procesador, pero a la hora de comprarla en ninguna parte de la pagina advertia esto, por el contrario decia que la motherboard era compatible con este tipo de procesador. Por suerte el tecnico que me ayudo a ensamblar el equipo consulto a INTEL y tubimos que actualizar el BIOS de la tarjeta madre. Creo que cuando se vende un producto como las motherboard deberían de informar sobre la VERSIÓN DE BIOS con que cuenta el producto y algo muy impotante el AÑO EN QUE SE FABRICO EL PRODUCTO. Escribo esto con el proposito de que si a alguna persona le sucede algo parecido ya sabe que debe de revisar bien antes de comprar y para que el equipo de mercadeo de la tienda que vende el producto de toda la información correcta del producto que esta vendiendo.
Gracias
Great board... poor documentation 2007-02-08
This is a seemingly great motherboard. Just beware though; IF you have an Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.46Ghz processor, this board WILL NOT WORK! It just took me 2 days to realize that, after digging through support documentation and UPGRADING my 3.46Ghz P4 Extreme Edition processor to a 2.4Ghz processor that I was going to use for another computer. haha (2.4Ghz processor = a Core 2)
So now, I have a 3.46Ghz P4 Extreme Edition processor, that I paid over a grand for in late 2004, that doesn't have a motherboard... All because another earlier Intel motherboard broke down on me... :( (but I still stick with Intel motherboards because I'm either stubborn or just too forgiving...)
It just would have been nice if there's documentation that this board does NOT support a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.46Ghz processor on the product description. (no retailers, that I know of, mentions it.) So just because it says Extreme Editions are supported or whatever else, do NOT assume that! Research through Intel's support site to confirm that. Because with stuff like this, ignorance is NOT bliss when something does not work when you're building a system.
2 thumbs UP for the engineers of this product and 2 thumbs DOWN for the marketing team (or whoever needs to take the blame for providing misleading/insufficient information for this product)... because with this supposedly supporting an Extreme Edition processor is more like an Extreme Headache. NOT ALL Extreme Editions are supported, apparently.
