Intel Extreme Series DX38BT

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Intel Extreme Series
DX38BT

Intel DX38BT mainboard features all the features necessary for CPU and memory overclocking. We did personally see screenshots proving successful overclocking results. However, this time I failed to even slightly overclock our system and I have no idea what happened to the board that it kept offering to correct the BIOS settings after a few failed attempts to boot with different frequencies. Even if you are lucky enough to get a mainboard sample that will overclock, there is one thing that doesn’t let us recommend this solution fro overclockers. The main problem is that Intel DX38BT mainboard doesn’t seem to be very user friendly.

I first tested Intel DX38BT mainboard last year and it was the first Intel X38 Express based mainboard that I worked with. Since then I have already checked out a few other Intel X38 Express based solutions from other manufacturers, one of them was Asus Maximus Extreme, and the difference between these two products is evident.

For example, it made absolutely no sense to set the memory to work at 1333MHz, not to mention 1600MHz, with a non-overclocked Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 processor. It turned out that the maximum memory frequency for a CPU with 266MHz nominal bus speed is only 1066MHz. Asus Maximus Extreme mainboard has the higher memory dividers removed. If you install a CPU with 333MHz bus (or overclock a CPU with lower nominal bus speed to 333MHz FSB), then you get the option to clock your memory as DDR1333. Intel DX38BT has these dividers from the very beginning, so I spent quite a bit of time trying to find a perfect combination of parameters that simply doesn’t exist at all.

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