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Motherboard Teardown: DFI LanParty DK X48-T2RSB+

Hey there.

This is my motherboard 3 years ago. The motherboard was really great for overclocking, plus the catchy UV-reactive color slots. Until, suddenly the MOSFET burned when I turn on the computer.

Don’t really know why, I assume it might be from ESD, because I don’t use any chassis before. My board are just laying on my desk.

Even the MOSFET already burned, I tried to remove it from the board, and viola! it still works!

The Audio jack housing is broken, intentionally, because I want to see inside the connectors.

Ok, Here we go~

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Overall board looks DFI LanParty DK X48 T2RSB+

 

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Intel 82801IR (ICH9R) Southbridge.

 

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Intel X48 Northbridge

 

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VRM PWM Controller – ISL6336 by Intersil Official Datasheet and Specification : HERE

 

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MOSFET array : CSD16404 and CSD16410 by CiclonSemi (now acquired by Texas Instrument) Official Datasheet and Specification (CSD16404): HERE

 

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MOSFET Driver : ISL6612 by Intersil Official Datasheet and Specification: HERE

 

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ITE 8268R. Anyone know what is this? Please comment below 🙂

 

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VRM for DRAM Modules. Using ISL6520 for MOSFET driver.

 

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Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

 

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ITE 8266R. Anyone know what is this? Please comment below 🙂

 

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Realtek ALC885 High-performance Audio Codec. Decent sound for listening music and gaming

 

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LP DK X48-T2RSB+

 

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ICS 9LPRS918JKLF – FSB Controller/Clockgen(?) I don’t know the exact name for this chips…

 

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VIA VT6307 – Firewire IEEE1394 Controller. Honestly I never used the firewire peripherals… and ITE8718F Low-Pin Count (LPC IO). This chip controls much minor things, like Floppy Disk, Hardware Monitor, Fan Controller, PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse, UART, CIR, Parallel Port, etc…

 

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HCT164M by Texas Instrument : a simple logic circuit. Converts Serial to Parallel. Maybe for the 7-Segment Debug LED?

 

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74LV123D – Another Logic IC from NXP

 

ST Microelectronics – ST75185C COM Port Driver

 

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Old Jellybean Op-Amp! LM358 beneath the PCI-express slot…

 

 

Will post more motherboard later!
Wait for my MSI P67 Motherboard!

 

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Overclocking a Locked Core i5 – 2400 (Sandy Bridge)

This is my current overclock,

Daily OC on 6 July 2014

Daily OC on 6 July 2014

for daily use, rock-stable, no BSOD’s

with extremely low voltage, so heat dissipation is very low.

My pc is almost dead silent; the 7200RPM Seagate Hard drive is the noisiest in the system. There are 4x 120mm fans, running at 650rpm (sometimes 0 RPM if the room temperature below than 23 degree celsius).

 

Ok, This is my first time posting in my own WordPress CMS and this is on my own home server. Wish me luck to continue maintain this server

Thanks for reading!