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**XDanger** · 02-24-11, 02:11 PM

When you get bored of the board can you just RMA it after a year?

brady · 02-27-11, 07:11 PM

Anyone know of a reputable dealer that's still selling 1155 boards? I don't care about the SATA problem.

03-09-11, 04:17 PM

Anyone know when the Rev 3.0 Boards will go on sale again?

Pennyboy · 03-10-11, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by john19055

I just stay with my i7-920 I have been ruuning it since day one at 4.2gigs at 1.4v ,I just can't see the sandy worth getting if you are running a i7-920 at 4.2gig.The highest I have ever ran mine was 4.5gig but it gets to hot.

I can see anyone with a 1st generation i7 would be kind of disappointed with the Sandy Bridge CPUs, especially because you have to buy a new mobo for little perfomance benefits but for anyone like myself that was running an old Dual Core E8400 socket 775 system Sandy Bridge is unreal!! its kinda like winning the lottery, so much computing power available at a respectable price!

Bigbuck · 03-11-11, 10:39 AM

If anyone else ordered the P67 motherboards from Newegg, I just got an email saying they have a few fixed boards in stock. There's two SATA ports on my board that have never worked so I figured I may as well get the RMA.

Peoples-Agent · 03-11-11, 12:02 PM

I dunno, I think my new 2600K murders the i7 950 I had before. Got to be the overclocking that does it.

Bigbuck · 03-17-11, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigbuck

If anyone else ordered the P67 motherboards from Newegg, I just got an email saying they have a few fixed boards in stock. There's two SATA ports on my board that have never worked so I figured I may as well get the RMA.

Just got my new Rev3 board put in. I was mistaken in my post above, I meant two USB ports didn't work. They work just fine now. Another thing I noticed is my sound card sounds better which leads me to believe there was something else wrong with my old board as well. Maybe the card is getting more power now?

**mailman2** · 03-18-11, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Peoples-Agent

I dunno, I think my new 2600K murders the i7 950 I had before. Got to be the overclocking that does it.

+1, I had a 4Ghz 860 though, but the 2600k murdered that too.

**mailman2** · 03-18-11, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by john19055

I just stay with my i7-920 I have been ruuning it since day one at 4.2gigs at 1.4v ,I just can't see the sandy worth getting if you are running a i7-920 at 4.2gig.The highest I have ever ran mine was 4.5gig but it gets to hot.

You guys can keep telling yourselves this but as someone that came from a 4.0Ghz i7 860 with HT the 2600k just smokes it. And I've got this at 4.8 with little effort.

There is definitely reason to upgrade!!!

**mailman2** · 03-18-11, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by slaWter

That is the best part about Sandy Bridge right now though - two native Intel 6GBit/s SATA ports. Although for multi-GPU systems, SB is not ideal.
CPUs alone, it's not worth switching from a "real" Socket 1366 i7 to a SB i7.

right, thats what z68 is for though.

mcolbourn · 03-18-11, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by mailman2

You guys can keep telling yourselves this but as someone that came from a 4.0Ghz i7 860 with HT the 2600k just smokes it. And I've got this at 4.8 with little effort.

There is definitely reason to upgrade!!!

Depends if you are talking about Gaming performance or Application Performance. I would agree that an overclocked SB will run some Apps faster but gaming depends on so much more than just CPU performance. The main one being the resolution you game at.

newparad1gm · 03-18-11, 09:18 AM

The Z68 still just allows for 2 PCI-e slots at x8. All my games are GPU-limited right now running at 5760x1080 in 3D Vision, and the ones that aren't are running at a very high FPS anyways, and thats with my 965 at just 3.9GHz. I think to truly see benefits from running SB at the resolutions I run at, I'm going to need either a 3rd GTX 580, or wait for the next generation of video cards. None of the current SB mobos can do Tri-SLI, and I would just be better served waiting for Sandy Bridge E for the next generation of video cards anyways.

Perhaps I would be better served upgrading my ATI machine to SB now instead, but Newegg is faking me out with all these SB mobos listed but then clicking on them leads to a SOLD OUT screen.

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newparad1gm Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 691	Re: -= Official Intel P67 / Sandy Bridge / i3 2100 / i5 2500K / i7 2600K Review Threa The Z68 still just allows for 2 PCI-e slots at x8. All my games are GPU-limited right now running at 5760x1080 in 3D Vision, and the ones that aren't are running at a very high FPS anyways, and thats with my 965 at just 3.9GHz. I think to truly see benefits from running SB at the resolutions I run at, I'm going to need either a 3rd GTX 580, or wait for the next generation of video cards. None of the current SB mobos can do Tri-SLI, and I would just be better served waiting for Sandy Bridge E for the next generation of video cards anyways. Perhaps I would be better served upgrading my ATI machine to SB now instead, but Newegg is faking me out with all these SB mobos listed but then clicking on them leads to a SOLD OUT screen. __________________ WAR MACHINE: Intel Core i7 3930K \| Asus X79 Sabertooth \| 4x4 GB G.Skill RipJaw PC3-12800 \| 2x EVGA NVIDIA GTX TITAN Signature 6GB SLI \| OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD \| 2x500 GB Seagate Barracuda RAID 0 \| Seagate FreeAgent 500GB External \| LG BD-ROM \| Cyber Acoustics CA3001WB 2.1 Speakers \| ABS SL 1050W PSU \| 3x Acer GD235HZ 23.6in 120Hz \| Silverstone Fortress FT02 \| Windows 8 Pro x64 \| NVIDIA 3DVision SURROUND CRIMSON DYNAMO: Intel Core i7 2600K \| Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H \| 2x4 GB G.Skill Ripjaw PC3-12800 \| XFX AMD HD7970 3GB \| Intel X-25M G2 160GB SSD \| 2x250GB RAID 0 \| Samsung BD-ROM \| Corsair TX 850W PSU \| Toshiba 42" REGZA 1080p HDTV \| Antec 900 ATX \| Windows 8 Pro x64 Sailor Jupiter (HTPC): Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 \| ZOTAC Geforce 9300 \| 2x2 GB OCZ Fatal1ty PC2-8500 \| WD 1TB \| Hitachi 2TB External \| MediaSonic HFR2-SU3S2 6x3TB Seagate Barracuda RAID 1+0 \| LG Blu-Ray/HD DVD-ROM \| FSP 150W PSU \| Toshiba 42" REGZA 1080p HDTV \| Foxconn RS233 mini-ITX \| Windows 7 Pro x86