Pulse-pounding gaming and high powered multimedia experiences require the ultimate in performance from your processor and motherboard. Intel Desktop Board DX38BT is designed to unleash the power of Intel Core2 Extreme processors. With support for 1333 MHz front side bus, fast DDR3 memory and overclocking, Intel Desktop Board DX38BT delivers the gaming performance you deserve.
Intel Desktop Board DX38BT supports Dolby* Home Theatre and Microsoft Windows Vista* Premium WHQL certified.
Features
Form Factor
ATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])
Processor
Support for both 45nm & 65nm Intel Core2 Quad processors in an LGA775 socket with a 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
Support for both 45nm & 65nm Intel Core2 Extreme processors in an LGA775 socket with a 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
Support for both 45nm & 65nm Intel Core2 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 1333 MHz, DDR3 1066 MHz, or DDR3 800 MHz DIMMs
Support for up to 8 GB of system memory
Support for ECC and non-ECC memory
Chipset
Intel X38 Express Chipset
Audio
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
