Hybrid Mainboard from ASRock

[realneil]

ASRock's P67 Transformer has been released.

They've married a Socket 1156 to a board with the new P67 Chipset on it so you can continue to use that i7-750,870, etc. but upgrade to a P67 chipset.

It's reviewed at Tom's hardware.

LINK: ASRock P67 Transformer: P67 Gets LGA 1156 Compatibility

 

[SieB]

Kudos to Asrock but I say new board new processor. With Sandy Bridge out I don't see the point in buying a P67 board and not buying a 2500/2600K to go with it.

 

[TMaksimov]

Kudos to Asrock but I say new board new processor. With Sandy Bridge out I don't see the point in buying a P67 board and not buying a 2500/2600K to go with it.

And I say X58.

 

[Matthias2437]

That is awesome that they did that, but if I were going to get a P67 board I would get a 2500k-2600k. If I wasn't planning on getting one of those then I would skip both and go for the dropped price X58 chips =P.

 

[realneil]

I posted about it because I thought that it was interesting, but the performance that you get with the full blown Sandy Bridge setup is compelling, (the OC speeds and thermal results) and I too would opt for the 2600k CPU.