In this Gigabyte serie motherboard, The Crazy Cool plate no longer comes pre-installed, it’s in a bag and you must install it if you want it. There are no issues getting the pins through the board, they went in very easy. However, the plate isn’t well insulated, so it is shorting against the mobo and causing all sorts of weirdness, so be carrefull. If you want to use a large CPU cooling fan such as Zalman CNPS 9500, it will be so so close to the memory slots. So, make sure to select proper memory sticks that are thin. Beware that Gigabytes Qualified Venders List for memory is flawed. Does not mean that type of memory can be used for OverClocking but just works okay (verified by Gigabyte) with the X48T-DQ6 motherboard. Like the other gigabyte motherboard, Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 have its picky on SATA boot order.
Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 Intel Motherboard Specification
| Processor | : | Socket T (LGA775); Intel Quad-core, Core2 Extreme, Core2 Duo, Pentium processors |
| Chipset | : | Intel X48 + ICH9R Chipset |
| Front Side Bus | : | 1600/1333 MHz |
| Memory | : | Max. 8GB;Dual channel DDR3 1800 x 4 DIMMs |
| Expansion Slots | : | 2*PCIe2.0 x16, 3*PCIe x1, 2*PCI |
| IDE | : | 1*ATA100 |
| Serial ATA(SATA)/RAID | : | 8*SATAII w/ RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 |
| Audio | : | Realtek ALC889A, 8 Channels Audio |
| LAN | : | Dual 10/100/1000Mbps |
| IEEE1394 | : | 2*1394a |
