Sandy Bridge Motherboards Dissected, Compared

Posted by timothy on Friday January 7, 2011 @01:07PM from the no-blending-though dept.

crookedvulture writes "As we've learned, Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs are pretty impressive. If you're going to build yourself a system with one, you'll need a new motherboard with an 1155-pin socket. The Tech Report has an in-depth look at four such boards based on Intel's P67 Express chipset. Although the boards offer identical application performance, there are notable differences between their power consumption and the speed of onboard peripherals like USB 3.0 and Serial ATA ports. Some implement the new UEFI BIOS framework while others do not, and the quality of those implementations varies quite a bit. Recommended reading for anyone thinking about rolling their own desktop with one of Intel's latest CPUs."

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FrRRiiistt psottt by Noogie+Brown · 2011-01-07 13:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

oh lawdy

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Re:Missing Story Tag : DRM by h4rr4r · 2011-01-07 13:46 · Score: 1, Offtopic

They say it is like the bluray protected path, which is in fact DRM.