Z68 motherboard questions

chippy08

chippy08

chippy08

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Hi guys thinking of getting one of these when they arrive so just a few questions

Firstly any idea when they will be available for sale ?

secondly i hear it will only have the 2 6gb sata connections ?

thirdly with it using on the cpu gpu i take it its going to give out more heat so a good cooler will be needed ?

Fouthly i heard it will be better at overclocking than the p67 boards ?

Thanks
 
1/ No idea, haven't been checking myself.

2/ Almost certainly not. The default Intel array for the x67/68 chipset is 2x Sata3_6gb, 4x Sata2_3gb but most manufacturers and boards have an additional 2x Sata3_6gb provided by a third party (albeit without intel RAID capabilities and somewhat slower speeds, but still better than Sata2). With the recent discovery of flaws in the cougar point silicon I would not put it past manufacturers to increase the number of third party ports or demand more sata3_6gb connectors from intel, though the second might have to wait until a second revision of the boards.

3/ Probably, but the heat output of the sandy bridge chipsets is not massively huge as is.

4/ I can only imagine this by virtue of having more sensible bios/uefi settings (e.g. the initial batch of asus p8p67s used a bclk of 103 instead of 100 which intel strongly recommend against). Given 3/ and that you're likely to be overclocking the graphics indirectly when overclocking the CPU, I would imagine the answer is more likely to be "no".
 
As you can see, most of what's presented on the slide are exactly the same features that you get from the P67 chipset, with a couple of minor exceptions. For starters, the Z68 chipset lists performance overclocking as one of its features, for the processor, memory and integrated graphics. As the Z68 chipset supports integrated graphics, it's actually some kind of franken-hybrid between the H67 and P67 chipsets. We're not sure how many high-end users would even care about this feature, although we can't but wonder why embedded DisplayPort support is listed under the supported display interfaces. We're not sure what "Built-in Visuals Support" stands for, but it might just be related to Intel's Clear Video technology.
 
I'm more interested in the Hybrid SSD stuff myself, and whether it'll be added to the H67 and P67 boards through an Intel RST update.
 
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