DFI LT X48 review

Mainboards on Intel X48 Express chipset spread all over the place slowly but surely. Slowly, because the only significant difference between the new chipset and its predecessor is high price, although even Intel X38 Express already cost quite a bit. So, the customers are not really rushing to stores to get their hands on the new mainboards and there is no buying frenzy of any kind. However, the mainboards and the buyers are there alright. The manufacturers, just like fortune tellers, realized a while ago that the magic of numbers has serious effect on people. From the customers’ standpoint, X48 core logic is indisputably better than X38, just because it is a higher number. The graphics card developers have taken advantage of this human perception peculiarity for a while: just change the working frequencies a little bit and give the card a new name and it will immediately become more valuable from the consumer’s prospective. Although you may even leave the frequencies untouched: just change the name and it will do the trick.

If you're into overclocking the DFI LT X48 has probably been pretty high on your want list. Xbit labs have a nice review of it, and like pretty much every X48 board it's not too different from the X38 cousin.


I bought a Asus Maximus Formula (x38) board a while ago and will be flashing it to x48 soon enough.