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Giagbyte E350N-USB3 @ TweakTown

“The GIGABYTE E350N-USB3 is as you might’ve guessed a Fusion board based on the E Series of Fusion APU from AMD. They tell us that this is the “Value & Essential” series. We’re going to get into all of that in just a few moments, though, as we take a look at the motherboard to see what’s on offer. What we’ll first do is check out the package that GIGABYTE has got going on.”

Sapphire PURE Black X58 @ Modders

“This board is quite different than what they have done in the past and on top of that it is an Intel CPU based motherboard. Loaded with lots of extras and features this board could show that Sapphire is ready to challenge other manufactures.”

ASRock P67 Extreme6 @ MadShrimps

“The Extreme6 P67 motherboard from ASRock is one of their high-end products for the Sandy Bridge CPUs and features a 16+2 Power Phase Design, a decent software+hardware bundle along with the NF200 chipset to enable 3-way SLI on this P67 board.”

MSI Big Bang P67 Marshal @ Guru3D

“The board comes with 24-phase DrMOS power design, voltage monitoring points, an external overclock device called the OC dashboard, that all new EFI BIOS, dual-BIOS selectable with a simple button, and OC genie button that allows you to have say a 2500K processor run at 4200 with the flick of a switch. I’m not done though, we spot integrated audio with SoundBlaster X-Fi application (software) layer, ten SATA ports of which four are based on the all new SATA 6G. Thick heatpipe (passive and thus silent) cooling and more and more.”

ASUS P8P67 Pro @ PC Perspective

“This motherboard is the first I’ve tested with the P67 chipset, and I couldn’t have been more pleased with the overall features and overclocking prowess of the P8P67 Pro. ASUS seamlessly integrated their own unique modifications and third-party software with Intel’s Sandy Bridge architecture as well as their P67 chipset.”

ECS H67H2-I @ Hardware Secrets

“The ECS H67H2-I is a very small mini-ITX motherboard for socket 1155 processors, thus being targeted to the new “Sandy Bridge” CPUs. It is based on the Intel H67 chipset and comes with one PCI Express x16 slot, allowing you to build a powerful gaming system using a very small case, and tons of extra features such as Bluetooth connectivity and USB 3.0 ports. Let’s take a look at this new release.”

ASUS E35M1-M Pro @ eTeknix

“The DirectX 11 capable APU gave really strong results throughout out testing phase in terms of synthetic benchmarks and gaming tests. The main use that we can see for a board like this would be for home servers or more commonly expected; HTPC’s giving the user exactly what they need and nothing more. This includes the ability to play HD video at 1080p, play 720p based games and also be used as a video encoding machine.”

ASUS P8P67 Deluxe @ Hexus

“Launched as one of the Taiwanese manufacturer’s nine available P67 models, the P8P67 Deluxe touts high-end features at a sub-£200 price point. Based on Intel’s P67 chipset, the board supports your choice of LGA1155 processors across the Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 product lines and targets users who are planning on employing a third-party graphics solution.”

Sapphire Pure Black X58 @ PureOC

“The Sapphire Pure Black X58 is the company’s first foray into the premium Intel motherboard market, and this board sports gorgeous styling, strong features, and impressive performance. But it’s in for a very tough fight against some established companies and products. Can the Pure Black X58 measure up?”

Gigabyte GA-X58-USB3 @ OC Club

“The X58-USB3 does also support multi-GPU configurations by either ATI or NVIDIA. This provides not only the ability to be more powerful but also gives the diversity of being able to use which ever brand you may prefer or have on hand. When it came down to overclocking, the motherboard didn’t really give me any problems getting up to 3.8GHz with the i7 920; however, that clock speed seems to be the maximum that my chip can reach as it is a C0 stepping.”