Sandy Bridge Desktop CPUs and Motherboards [Updated]

It's certainly been a long road for Intel in a short time with the new Sandy Bridge Socket 1155 motherboards. Due to an early mistake in chipset design, every single motherboard produced by the manufacturers was recalled. Luckily over the past month, the manufacturers have released fixed models. Below is a list of all updated Gigabyte (B3) and ASUS (Rev. 3.0) motherboards, and links to our favorite online stores. We've also re-posted our top picks for the 2011 Intel Core-i3/i5/i7 lineup. 

Gigabyte GA-P67A-D3-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3R-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7-B3 Amazon Newegg (Pro Pick)


Gigabyte GA-H67A-UD3H-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-H67A-USB3-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-H67M-D2-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-H67M-UD2H-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-H67MA-D2H-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-H67MA-UD2H-B3 Amazon Newegg (Budget Pick)
Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3-B3 Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3-B3 Amazon Newegg 
(HTPC Pick)
Asus Maximus IV Extreme Amazon Newegg (Pro Pick)
Asus P8P67 Amazon Newegg
Asus P8P67 Deluxe Amazon Newegg
Asus P8P67 EVO Amazon Newegg
Asus P8P67 LE Amazon Newegg 
Asus P8P67 PRO Amazon Newegg
Asus P8P67-M Amazon Newegg
Asus P8P67-M PRO Amazon Newegg
Asus Sabertooth P67 Amazon Newegg

Asus P8H67 Amazon Newegg
Asus P8H67-I Deluxe Amazon Newegg (HTPC Pick)
Asus P8H67-M Amazon Newegg
Asus P8H67-M EVO Amazon Newegg
Asus P8H67-M LE Amazon Newegg
Asus P8H67-M LX Amazon Newegg
Asus P8H67-M PRO Amazon Newegg  (Budget Pick)

All of the new Gigabyte motherboards will be edited, verified and added to the DSDT Database in the weeks to come. In addition, we'll be broadening the DSDT Database beyond our current Gigabyte offerings to include a verified library of pre-edited ASUS DSDTs.


Intel Core i7-2600K Amazon Newegg (Pro Pick)
4 cores/8 threads - 8 MB Cache, 3.4 GHz - Unlocked for Overclocking 

Intel Core i5-2500K Amazon Newegg (Budget Pick)
4 cores/4 threads - 6 MB Cache, 3.3 GHz - Unlocked for Overclocking 

Intel Core i7-2600 Amazon Newegg
4 cores/8 threads - 8 MB Cache, 3.4 GHz

Intel Core i5-2500 Amazon Newegg
4 cores/4 threads - 6 MB Cache, 3.3 GHz

Intel Core i5-2400S Amazon Newegg (HTPC Pick)
4 cores/4 threads - 6MB Cache, 2.5 GHz - 65W Low Power 

Intel Core i5-2400 Amazon Newegg
4 cores/4 threads - 6 MB Cache, 3.1 GHz

Intel Core i5-2300 Amazon Newegg
4 cores/4 threads - 6 MB Cache, 2.8 GHz

Intel Core i3-2120 Amazon Newegg
2 cores/4 threads -  3 MB Cache, 3.3 GHz

Intel Core i3-2100 Amazon Newegg
2 cores/4 threads - 3 MB Cache, 3.1 GHz

Intel Core i3-2100T Amazon Newegg (HTPC Pick)
2 cores/4 threads - 3 MB Cache, 2.5 GHz - 35W Low Power

For those of you buying new systems, we've opened a special section of the forum dedicated to Sandy Bridge.  Good luck!  Let us know how it goes with these new components!

-tonymacx86 & MacMan

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