Intel DX48BT2 Extreme Series X48 Desktop Board, ATX, DDR3 1600, 3xPCIe x16, 1600MHz FSB, LGA775, Retail Motherboard

List Price: $395.00 Discount Price: $249.99

Features:

• ATX Form factor
• Gigabit LAN
• 4 Memory Slots (up to 8GB), DDR3 1600/1333/1066/800
• Intel X48, 1600MHz Bus Speed
• 8 Channel Audio Support

Customer Reviews:

Intel DX48BT2 [Posted on 2008-08-30]
I test the this Motherboard with Intel Q9450 Core2 Quad Proccessor and 4Gb TW3X4G1333C9DHX Corsair DDR3 RAM Memory and this Motherboard works very good. The memory work with a FSB of 1066MHz instead of 1333MHz

Don't use 1600 ram if going 8Gig [Posted on 2008-09-03]
This is a fine MB, the only issue I had is that it doesn't support 8 Gig(4x2G) of 1600 RAM but only 4 Gig(2X2G). Buy the slower 1333 RAM and save some $ and grief. Otherwise this board works great. I would also recommend visiting the Intel site and buying only RAM that is certified.

intel dx48bt2 small problem [Posted on 2008-09-05]
Well I suppose this is a good board and Amazon was very quick in replacing it, but out of the box I was unable to enter bios. I was able to update to the latest version no problem and boot into windows vista fine but when pressing F2 all I would get was a blank black screen and I would have to reset. Strange problem, I know. There is one more problem and it's that my computer restarts at random, All parts are brand new and for my sanity sake I hope that is related to the motherboard as well.
Update: Setting OCZ memory voltage to 1.9 fixed the restarting problem, Thanks. It will be a few months before I get a chance to work on the bios problem. In the mean time if anyone else has same problem and comes up with a fix please write review.

Recommended product [Posted on 2008-09-12]
very good motherboard. i recommend it for the super users. the problem with this motherboard is that with memory modules 1600 greater than 4G, u can't upgrade. max. memory 1600 is 4G

Good Mobo but change RAM voltage [Posted on 2008-09-16]
I had the same problem of intermittent and unexplained restarts. I read somewhere that OCZ recommends a voltage setting of 1.9 volts. This MoBo comes with a default setting of 1.5
Changed it to 1.9 and the problem went away.

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