Wednesday, June 2nd 2010
ASUS and MSI Show off LGA-1155 Motherboards based on P67 Chipset
Following Biostar's display of its socket LGA-1155 motherboard, market-heavyweights ASUS and MSI were also seen exhibiting their LGA-1156 motherboards based on the Intel P67 chipset. The ASUS P8P67D EVO uses 12+2 phase CPU VRM, has four DIMM slots for dual-channel DDR3 memory, and expansion slots which include two PCI-Express x16 (electrical x8 when both are populated), two PCI, and three PCI-E x1. MSI's P67A-GD65 uses an 8+1 phase VRM with High-C capacitors. Both models feature SATA 6 Gb/s, USB 3.0, and other features commonly found in today's P55-based motherboards, with the difference of the LGA-1155 socket that will fit next-generation Sandy Bridge processors. LGA-1155 is not compatible with LGA-1156, probably except for the cooler mount hole spacing. LGA-1155 platform will likely be introduced in early 2011, looking at how major motherboard vendors are ready with their products in time for this year's Computex event, which is the large major IT exposium before next year's CES.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
17 Comments on ASUS and MSI Show off LGA-1155 Motherboards based on P67 Chipset
My board has a VIA chipset + NIC, but sound is Realtek...:ohwell:
If you compare to those lower end garbage, of course VIA sounds much better.
The ALC889 on my board sounds nice.
and rubbish drivers, or has the driver issues been fixed?
on topic: I appreciate the fact intel has at least made the HSF mount holes compatible
unlike the current boards with only 2 SATA 3.0 and 2 USB 3.0 ports each
On another note, so Sandy Bridge is getting called Core i7? Nice work differentiating from old models Intel. At least have the courtesy to call it Core i7-2 or Core x7 or something different.
For analog stuff the sound is "hollow" and the volume doesn't get high enough for some headphones.