DFI Lanparty Blood Iron P45-T2RS Elite Motherboard Review

Chipset Features

The P45 chipset by Intel supports a variety of features including 1600 MHz Front Side Bus processors, high speed DDR2 and DDR3, Extreme Memory Profiles (Intel XMP), next-generation dual PCI Express 2.0 lanes, and Intel Extreme Tuning, allowing for maximum platform performance.

The Intel P45 Express Chipset is driving PCIE2.0 to mainstream users, delivering up to 16 GB/s bandwidth, twice the bandwidth of PCI Express 1.0. The Intel P45 Express Chipset supports either a 1 x 16 or 2 x 8 PCI-E 2.0 configuration for expandable discrete graphics capability. PCI-E 2.0 also provides greater flexibility and reliability in design because it is backward compatible with PCI-E 1.0 and can dynamically manage power and performance through software controls. The greatly improved 16 GB/s of graphics bandwidth capability enables much higher levels of performance on graphics-intensive applications such as high-end gaming and video rendering.


DFI Lanparty BI P45-T2RS Elite Features

A few notable features on the DFI Lanparty BI P45-T2RS Elite include 8.1 Channel HD Audio, All Solid Capacitors, a ton of USB 2.0 ports (12), Core 2 Duo, Quad and Extreme support, Genie BIOS, CMOS Reloaded and ABS capabilities. A brief summary of each of these features is as follows: