Intel® Desktop Board DX48BT2

Pulse-pounding gaming and high-powered multimedia experiences require the ultimate in performance from your processor and motherboard. Intel® Desktop Board DX48BT2 is designed to unleash the power of Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors. With support for 1600 MHz front side bus, fast DDR3 memory and overclocking, Intel Desktop Board DX48BT2 delivers the gaming performance you deserve.Intel Desktop Board DX48BT2 supports Dolby Home Theater* and Microsoft Windows Vista* Premium WHQL certified.

Features and benefits

• Form factor
  ATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])
  


• Processor
  Support for both 45nm & 65nmIntel® Core™2 Quad processors in an LGA775 socket with a 1600, 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
  Support for both 45nm & 65nmIntel® Core™2 Extreme processors in an LGA775 socket with a 1600, 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
  Support for both 45nm & 65nmIntel® Core™2 Duo processors in an LGA775 socket with a 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
  Support for an Intel® Pentium® processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system bus
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• Memory
  Four 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
  Support for DDR3 1600 MHz, DDR3 1333 MHz, DDR3 1066 MHz, or DDR3 800 MHz DIMMs
  Support for up to 8 GBΣ of system memory
  


• Chipset
  Intel® X48 Express Chipset
  


• Audio
  Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in the following configuration:
  8-channel (7.1) Dolby Home Theater* Audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and two S/PDIF digital audio outputs (coaxial and optical) using the Sigmatel* 9274D audio codec
  


• ATI CrossFire* multi-GPU platform support
  ATI CrossFire technology enables two ATI* graphics cards to work together for ultimate 3D gaming performance and visual quality
  Full support of next-generation ATI CrossFire*
  I/O control
  I/O controller for Consumer IR
  


• LAN support
  Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller
  


• Peripheral interfaces
  Twelve USB 2.0 ports (8 external ports, 2 internal headers)
  Six Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports, including 2 eSATA port with RAID support supplied by a Marvell* controller
  Two IEEE-1394a ports (1 external port, 1 internal header)
  Consumer IR receiver and emitter (via internal headers)
  One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support (2 devices supported)
  


• Expansion capabilities
  Two PCI Conventional* bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to both PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors)
  One primary PCI Express* 2.0 x16 (electrical x16) bus add-in card connector
  One secondary PCI Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x16) bus add-in card connector
  One PCI Express* 1.0a x16 (electrical x4) bus add-in card connector
  


• Microsoft Windows Vista* Premium ready
  With a PC built with Intel® Core™2 Duo or Intel® Core™2 Quad processors, and the Intel® Desktop Board, you can experience a more responsive and manageable environment of Microsoft Windows Vista* including a new visual sophistication of the Microsoft Windows Aero* interface.