ECS P67H2-A Sandy bridge motherboard preview - Product gallery

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Right so we have to be a little careful as there's nothing we can say about the actual P67 chipset. What we can say is that ECS did its best to bring you guys a very mature and feature rich motherboard alright.

As you guys know the launch of Intel's Sandy Bridge (mainstream at first) processors is getting closer, and with it unfortunately again comes a new CPU socket (LGA 1155), and thus new motherboard chipsets.

ECS is also working on a few of these motherboards and for the model shown today is making sure that both NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards work combined together. Yep, ECS is adding the unpopular Lucid Hydra (LT24102) IC. Now we are not keen on the extra chip at all, as overall experiences with Hydra are far from impressive and let alone user friendly.

This ATX sized motherboard is to be called the P67H2-A and comes with a 14-phase VRM design. The motherboard comes with three PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (x16, x8, x8 or x16,x16) as well as a pair of PCI Express x1 and two PCI slots.

The motherboard has a lot connectivity on the rear IO panel. Dual Gigabit Ethernet, multiple NEC USB 3.0 connectors that will bring you a total of four USB 3.0 ports, next to the six USB 2.0 ports. Optical TOSLINK S/PDIF audio for eight-channel audio, CMOS clear button, two eSATA connectors yeah that's tucked full alright.