Provantage Sandy Bridge motherboards

[phillyman36]

I found these Sb mobo with prices. Not sure if they have a mark up or if this is going to be the general pricing for all.

UD7 wow

http://www.provantage.com/scripts/se...x=0&Submit.y=0

 

[Rifter]

thats retarded if true, and more reason to go x58/p55 now and wait for 2011.

Edit: i thought SB was for mainstream users? why are they not pricing boards in the $100-130 range?

 

[Edrick]

thats retarded if true, and more reason to go x58/p55 now and wait for 2011.

Edit: i thought SB was for mainstream users? why are they not pricing boards in the $100-130 range?

Those are Gigabytes higher end boards. They will be making lower price ones using the H67 chipset and not the P67. But I do think they are a little higher priced than maybe should be. Hopefully prices drop once they are actually released.

 

[Hogan773]

Those are Gigabytes higher end boards. They will be making lower price ones using the H67 chipset and not the P67. But I do think they are a little higher priced than maybe should be. Hopefully prices drop once they are actually released.

The UD3 and UD3P are in the 130-140 range.....not unreasonable. I haven't done a side-by-side to see what the UD5, UD6 and UD7 offer that makes it worth that kind of money......

 

[hotboyz012345]

Ya i also think so gigabyte motherboard are the best.

 

[smakme7757]

thats retarded if true, and more reason to go x58/p55 now and wait for 2011.

Edit: i thought SB was for mainstream users? why are they not pricing boards in the $100-130 range?

I don't know if i agree with that logic. If the high end 'mainstream' SB motherboards are going to cost $150+ what makes you think they will make 2011 boards cheaper when released? SB is the mainstream part, but they will still sell high end motherboards for it. Just like they sell high end motherboards for 1156. Mainsteam does not mean budget.

 

[BBMW]

I have a feeling the pricing on the P67/H67 boards are going to be right where the pricing of P55/H55 boards are now.

 

[Rifter]

I don't know if i agree with that logic. If the high end 'mainstream' SB motherboards are going to cost $150+ what makes you think they will make 2011 boards cheaper when released? SB is the mainstream part, but they will still sell high end motherboards for it. Just like they sell high end motherboards for 1156. Mainsteam does not mean budget.

I dont think 2011 will be cheaper, but it will be better. And ill bet you will be able to grab a 2011 board for $200-$300 when its releases. Makes more sense to spend $200 on a 2011 board than $200+ on one of these gigabyte 1155 board.

And mainstream doesnt mean budget but intel doesnt go after the budget market(sub $100 CPU's), they leave it to AMD. So as far as intel is concerned 1155 is their budget platform as its what they are offering the $120-140 low end i3 CPU's on. There is nothing enthusiast about SB with on die graphics. Enthusiast users will still have to wait for 2011, and use discreet graphics.

 

[Vette73]

thats retarded if true, and more reason to go x58/p55 now and wait for 2011.

Edit: i thought SB was for mainstream users? why are they not pricing boards in the $100-130 range?

Because they know people will pay much more to be first inline. The 2011 will be even higher when it comes out.

Give it 2-3 months for prices to come down when supply is more stable and the early adopters have their fill.

 

[Hogan773]

I dont think 2011 will be cheaper, but it will be better. And ill bet you will be able to grab a 2011 board for $200-$300 when its releases. Makes more sense to spend $200 on a 2011 board than $200+ on one of these gigabyte 1155 board.

And mainstream doesnt mean budget but intel doesnt go after the budget market(sub $100 CPU's), they leave it to AMD. So as far as intel is concerned 1155 is their budget platform as its what they are offering the $120-140 low end i3 CPU's on. There is nothing enthusiast about SB with on die graphics. Enthusiast users will still have to wait for 2011, and use discreet graphics.

Does "enthusiast" automatically mean "gamer"? Just because SB has on-die graphics as an OPTION (that is, you can always use a GPU as well and disable the on-board graphics) does that make it a chip only for the mainstream masses? By this logic you would still be buying a 1366 chip like the i7 950 even when SB is available because you've decided that it is labeled for the "enthusiasts" of the world.....yet SB might equal or exceed its performance for a similar price.

I guess this is how Intel can charge $1000 for a chip marketed to "enthusiasts" like the 980x even though there is no way that chip delivers 5X the performance of the garden variety "mainstream" (ugggghhh mainstream yuck) chips like an i5 760 or even i7 950 in the $200ish range.

I'm mainstream I guess, and proud of it

 

[Rifter]

Does "enthusiast" automatically mean "gamer"?
I guess this is how Intel can charge $1000 for a chip marketed to "enthusiasts" like the 980x even though there is no way that chip delivers 5X the performance of the garden variety "mainstream" (ugggghhh mainstream yuck) chips like an i5 760 or even i7 950 in the $200ish range.

I'm mainstream I guess, and proud of it

Entusiast means top end doesnt matter either gaming, encoding or whatever but enthusiast is pushing the leading edge of the hardware at the time(i would say right now that would be a 4+Ghz i7 quad or golftown, AMD has nothing in this class thats why golftown is so much money).

Intel can charge $1000 for a 980x because AMD has no competetition. I blame AMD for intel being able to rape us. AMD should be able to come up with sopmething to counter golftown but they cant seem to do it. The best CPU always carries a premiuim just like the high clocked AMD 64 X2 chips did when they were hammering the P4s and were selling for $1000. We need a even balance of performance from AMD and Intel to stabalize pricing. And dont think Intel isnt going to rape people with SB pricing till EDIT bulldozer not bobcat comes out, they will as they will be able to with no competeition.

 

[smangular]

I have a feeling the pricing on the P67/H67 boards are going to be right where the pricing of P55/H55 boards are now.

Agreed the pricing of Sandy Bridge motherboards will be similar to current 1156 solutions. SB is designed to replace the i3 and better from 1156 (at launch).

 

[stahlhart]

There is nothing enthusiast about SB with on die graphics. Enthusiast users will still have to wait for 2011, and use discreet graphics.

But won't P67 boards require discrete graphics, since there's no provision for output from the integrated graphics, as is the case for H67?

As long as I'm here asking -- will the on die graphics for SB have functionality on a P67 board at any point, or are they for all intents and purposes disabled in favor of an external card or cards?

 

[phillyman36]

Provantage has added some MSI boards now


http://www.provantage.com/scripts/se...x=0&Submit.y=0

 

[phillyman36]

And Mwave has some coming soon

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/deepsearc...&SortMethod=11

 

[biostud]

the UD7 also have 4xPCIe x16 slots, so it's a premium board, just like the UD9

 

[bankster55]

The P67 workstation boards do not have on board graphics
As a matter of fact the top ASUS board has triple SLI and dual Xfire
The nda expires Jan 3, and the boards are allowed for sale on Jan 9
I'm buying the ASUS the first day its avail, because while all the P67 boards will be EFI GPT capable, only ASUS is going to offer it ready out of the box. Most bios today are 16MB chips and the min floor for EFI C++ coded bios is 32MB
You can use KB/mouse and take screenshots, save 100's of configs.
With EFI GPT you can have 128 partitions X86 or unlimited in X64, 7 zettabytes Win 7 X64 HDD 256TB partitions. No more MSDOS MBR 512Byte sector bios 30 year old mess.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12519&Itemid=47

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/asus_p67_1155_sandybridge_sneak_peak/4

http://vr-zone.com/articles/first-looks-asus-p8p67-deluxe-intel-p67-express-motherboard/10305-2.html

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...uxe-quick-preview-asus-specific-features.html

http://www.tweak.dk/nyheder2.php?id...Rock_P67_Extreme6_and_H67DE3_for_Sandy_Bridge

http://techgage.com/article/a_look_at_upcoming_asus_h67_p67_motherboards/

http://www.vortez.co.uk/articles_pages/asus_p8p67_motherboard_preview,1.html

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/01/11/msi-click-bios-evaluating-uefi-review/1

http://vr-zone.com/articles/msi-p67--h67-motherboard-line-up-pictured/10274.html

ECS 1156 (NOT 1155)
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/17732/asrock_p67_transformer_motherboard_video_hands_on/index.html

http://vr-zone.com/articles/first-l...me-intel-p67-express-motherboard/10408-4.html

evga
http://www.tcmagazine.com/tcm/news/...d-motherboard-pictured-has-six-pcie-x16-slots

gigabyte
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=263543