Stephen AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.20 GHz @ TechPowerUp
“The return of Phenom II X4 800 marks AMD’s yet another push to secure its dominance in the budget market, and its first representative, the Phenom II X4 840 has all of the features to continue the legacy of legendary Athlon II X4 620 – the first $100 quad processor. Clocked at high 3.20 GHz, and priced at $102, Phenom II X4 840 is going to compete nicely in this segment.”
AMD Phenom II X4 975 BE 3.60 GHz @ TechPowerUp
“AMD starts the new year with yet another fastest clocked processor introduced to the retail market. Clocked at 3.60 GHz, and with fair pricing, Phenom II X4 975 BE is reinforcing AMD’s line of defense against oncoming Sandy Bridge models and needs to maintain AMD’s strong presence in th emainstream market, at least until the Bulldozer architecture is ready.”
AMD Phenom II x4 975 Black Edition @ Techware Labs
“The Phenom II x4 975 falls into an interesting category. The Black Series is definitely targeted towards enthusiasts and overclockers. The price tag of $195 means it will be competing with the Sandy Bridge chip that Intel is releasing. The performance doesn’t quite look like it will measure up with Sandy Bridge, but it order to play in that ball park you will need to purchase a new motherboard with a whole new type of socket.”
ASRock P55 Extreme4 @ FutureLooks
“Built around the Intel P55 chipset, the ASRock P55 Extreme4 supports ATI CrossfireX and NVidia SLI. Quad configurations are capable as long as dual GPU PCIe graphics cards are used. However, at 8x by 8x PCIe bandwidth, this platform would favor two very capable single GPU cards as apposed to a quad configuration. That should be enough for hardcore graphics fiends.”
ASRock P67 FATAL1TY @ OCWorkBench
“Performance wise, the ASRock P67 FATAL1TY Profess1onal is pretty fast in most of the benchmarks. Most of them are on par with other P67 boards. The other board which performed better suffered from cold boot issue when running at C7-8-7-20-1T but this didn’t happen on the ASRock.”
ASUS P8P67 Pro @ OCWorkBench
“In terms of features, the ASUS P8P67pro comes with Dual intelligent Processors (DIGI + VRM) which helps in the stability of the system. The TPU/EPU also helps it to be energy efficient. In fact, the most important change is the EFI BIOS that brings GUI control to it. ASUS BT!”
ASUS P8P67 Pro @ ProClockers
“The first motherboard we will take a look at is the P8P67 Pro, which will be ASUS’ performance motherboard for users on a budget, or in other words a top-shelf mainstream board. In the lineup it falls just under the Deluxe but above the EVO. The P8P67 Pro holds a few similarities to the P7P55 Deluxe we reviewed here, looks is the only thing they have in common.”
ASUS P8P67 @ Vortez
“The ASUS P8P67 is pitched as ASUS’ mainstream P67 motherboard. So in terms of the P67 lineup this board is coming in at the bottom with regards to feature-set. That isn’t to say it lacks features, because as we will come to learn – even a product placed at the bottom of the range still oozes character and finesse. The P8P67 is a product with an an impressive arrangement of attributes such as – EFI BIOS, DIGI+ VRM, BT GO!, AI Suite II, TPU and EPU and much more!”
ASUS Maximus 4 Extreme @ OC3D
“Certainly all the parts are there. It comes with all the ROG goodness we’d expect to find such as the LN2 and ProbeIt features for those extreme overclockers. We have the Go button and BIOS recovery options that help all of us to reach the potential of our system as quickly as possible without too many headaches.
Any flaws in what we have to play with are more about the P67 chipset than ASUS themselves. We’d prefer to see full USB3.0 usage and SATA 6Gbp/s but those are out of ASUS hands to a large extent.”
ASRock P67 Extreme4 @ Anandtech
“The ASRock P67 Extreme4 shows a lot of potential. With this being our first Sandy Bridge motherboard review, there’s a very fine line of being wowed by Sandy Bridge, and deciding whether this motherboard is something people will want to buy. There will be a lot of choices on offer on release day, and ASRock is obviously competing to be the best board out there.”