The P4DCE+ is a large motherboard – make no mistake about that. It’s an Extended ATX board so make sure you have a large enough case to fit this board in. I used the Cooler Master ATC 101 case to house this board. That case provided more than enough room to handle this motherboard and all the peripherals.

Overall, the P4DCE+ is extremely well laid out. All the power connectors are lined up on the top part of the motherboard. You will need the 24 pin, 8 pin and 4 pin power connectors that can be found on an EPS12V PSU. You can get away with putting a 20 pin connector into the 24 pin socket but you still need the 8 pin power connectors.

Power Connectors

The RAMBUS memory slots are located in the middle of the board above the AGP 4X slot with nothing to block the RIMMs.The XEON sockets are nicely spaced out and no capacitors are blocking the heatsink assemblies.

The memory and sockets

The IDE connectors are below the 2nd CPU socket on the right hand side of the board while the floppy connector is on the upper right hand corner.

There are plenty of PCI slots for those who seemingly have a ton of expansion cards.

PCI slots

Remember that this board does come with integrated sound so you won’t exactly need to get add on sound card if sound isn’t a priority to you.Here's a picture of the I/O ports:

Rear I/O Ports

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