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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® Core™2 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 Theater* and Microsoft Windows Vista* Premium WHQL certified.

Product information

Features and benefits

Form factorATX (12.00 inches by 9.60 inches [304.80 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])
Processor
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 GBΣ of system memory
  • Support for ECC and non-ECC memory
Chipset
AudioIntel® 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 controlI/O controller for Consumer IR
LAN supportGigabit (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 readyWith 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.


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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.

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