a. 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:

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® processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system bus .

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 .

LAN support:

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