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.
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Features and benefitsForm factor ATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])
Processor Support for both 45nm & 65nm Intel® Core™2 Quad processors in an LGA775 socket with a 1600, 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
Support for both 45nm & 65nm Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors in an LGA775 socket with a 1600, 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
Support for both 45nm & 65nm Intel® Core™2 Duo processors in an LGA775 socket with a 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Pentium® dual-core 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.
Related productsProcessors Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor
Intel® Core™2 Quad processor
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor
Chipsets Intel® X48 Express Chipset
Ideal board for gaming PCs
Experience ultimate gaming with Intel® Desktop Board DX48BT2.
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Σ System resources and hardware (such as PCI and PCI Express*) require physical memory address locations that can reduce available addressable system memory. This could result in a reduction of as much as 1GB or more of physical addressable memory being available to the operating system and applications, depending on the system configuration and operating system.
