The Lack of information on P67 Motherboards?

[Rocketdog2112]

I was looking at a complete in original box with all shipped accessories (including the EVGauge & EVControl Panel) EVGA P67 FTW motherboard. This motherboard uses the Sandy Bridge CPU.

What is up withe lack of information on the board? Was it that terrible? Was it the generation of CPU or both?

Also, i am to understand that because of the chipset, an Ivy is out of the question?

[Middcore]

I'm not sure what you mean by a lack of information. EVGA still appears to have it's product page and support documentation for that board online. There are (dormant, naturally) listing pages for it on retailers like Newegg with customer reviews, and at least one professional review article by Hardware Canucks.

 

It's a 10 year old board. How much info are you expecting to find? EVGA has always been a niche player in motherboards compared to the "big four."

 

The Sandy Bridge generation of CPU's was very highly regarded, as any small amount of research would tell you. Many people used their overclocked Sandy Bridge i5's and i7's up until at least Skylake (~5 years later), as the generations in between offered only very incremental performance increases and AMD's chips were totally uncompetitive in that era.

 

P67 boards should support Ivy Bridge chips with a BIOS update, and there appears to be a BIOS revision from December 2012 for this board that does just that available in EVGA's download center.

[Alex Atkin UK]

27 minutes ago, Middcore said:

P67 boards should support Ivy Bridge chips with a BIOS update, and there appears to be a BIOS revision from December 2012 for this board that does just that available in EVGA's download center.

That was prone to not having dual-channel memory work though, my own board had that issue which sucked as being ITX it meant I could only use one memory slot, it wouldn't POST with RAM in both.