Chipset delays excursus, Sandy Bridge has been one of the about expected and stunning releases we've seen from Intel in Recent epoch years. The first wave of processors have incontestible superior efficiency as they swept aside considerably more than big-ticket processors of previous generations, while consuming even less force. The Burden i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K models have also delivered effortless overclocking potential without going for unrestrained price premiums.

When getting our first penchant of the Light-haired Bridge computer architecture we were also presented the opportunity to check knocked out some rather spectacular looking Gigabyte motherboards in the P67A-UD4 and H67MA-UD2H. For those edifice a new high-end rig from the anchor prepared, the LGA1155 platform looks like the way to get on and at that place are already quite few galvanic new P67 motherboards to choose from.

Thus we decided to put together a roundup featuring many of the very best P67 motherboards available. Back in November 2009 we published a similar article which focused on P55 motherboards ranging in price from $120 to $250. That particular review featured septet boards from the likes of Asrock, Asus, DFI, ECS, EVGA, GB and MSI.

This time around we have five kinda high-end motherboards from Asrock, Asus, ECS, G and MSI. EVGA has just same P67 board on offer and unluckily our contact there didn't seem all that keen to stimulate it compared to the competition. In the meantime DFI seems to have dropped off the map as they possess yet to design an LGA1155 motherboard.

That leaves us with the Asrock P67 Extreme6 ($210), Asus P8P67 Deluxe ($240), ECS P67H2-A2 ($195), Gigabyte P67A-UD7 ($330) and MSI P67A-GD55 ($160). The motherboards will be put through the usual batch of tests, spell we scrutinize its on-board features and compare their overclocking abilities side aside side.

It's a immense article, so please bear with us, or alternatively jump to whichever denounce/model you are most interested roughly for in-depth reporting.