ECS P67H2-A motherboard review

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ECS P67H2-A Sandy bridge motherboard preview

The ATX motherboard power connector is position properly, with above it the DDR3 DIMM slots. The motherboard can take up-to 16 GB of memory clocked at 1333 MHz. BIOS options allow for settings at 1600/1866 and even 2133 MHz as well. We stipulate 16GB here, but the setup actually should support 32GB after a System BIOS update.

ECS P67H2-A Sandy bridge motherboard preview

To the left side we spot some SATA connectors, the P67H2-A motherboard makes use of an extra Marvell 88SE9128 A 6G controller that provides two (grey) SATA 6G ports next to the four (white) SATA 2 ports. Next to the SATA 6G ports, you can spot two micro switches for a power-on and reset. These are not conveniently placed as a lengthy graphics card which may be thicker on the upper side (metal protective plate) could actually be positioned (sitting) right on top of them.

ECS P67H2-A Sandy bridge motherboard preview

To the far left we see a diagnostic POST LED showing function codes of the motherboard, unfortunately ECS (as always) forgot to mention the actual function codes in the manual, leaving us absolutely clueless as to what the codes could mean.

The grey connector there is for the USB 3.0 frontpanel header, that actually is the new standard USB 3.0 header specified as form factor. Sitting next to it is one of the two NEC USB 3.0 controllers.

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