The official launch of Intel's next flagship desktop chipset to superseed X38 has been delayed for a while, but we're being promised that X48 will arrive within the next few weeks.

Gearing up early, DFI have just unveiled their latest LANParty Series offering; the LT X48-T3R. This X48 based weapon is typically one very serious motherboard for enthusiasts, sporting features galore and undoubtedly stacks of overclocking headroom in combination with DFI's own Genie BIOS and CMOS Reload.

One of the most interesting aspects of the board is DFI's decision to collaborate with world reknowned cooling specialists ThermalRight for the board's source of cooling; a massive heat pipe cooler implementation DFI refer to as the "heat freezer".

For further information, grab the official PR in PDF format here folks.

Although the Chinese New Year festival was important to DFI's headquarters, the R&D team of DFI hasn't slowed down at all, in order to launch the new product of X48 motherboard well ahead of the preset schedule. DFI's LANParty UT X48-T3R is now just around the corner, ready to greet our enthusiasts throughout the world. This motherboard, based on Intel LGA775 socket CPU, will fully support the latest Intel 45nm process Quad-core CPU. Our LANParty LT(??) X48-T3R features the highest end of Intel X48 + ICH10R chipset.