I need some quick advice regarding CPU's.

[Troll2k]

All the first run 1155 boards had the Sata issue.The new boards out should have the new chips.Most manufacturers will say B3 on the box or literature.That is the new revision.

As far as I know the only difference between the h67 and the p67 is that the h67 has an integrated video port.No onboard video on the p67.


Note:
If you are looking at an 1155 board I assume you were able to return your other parts.

[sg1221]

I run RoF , CoD black ops , Crysis all maxed settings and have excellent FPS , CoD runs quite well on medium to high settings and I'm sure my video card and the lack of optimisation of the game is the only reason I can't max it too.
I think a whole lot of us have extreme overkill on our processors these days and
CoD has barely used the cores we have.
So you should be fine either way

sg

[danjama]

Originally Posted by sg1221

I think a whole lot of us have extreme overkill on our processors these days and
CoD has barely used the cores we have.
sg

Seems about right, we all want more than we need!

[danjama]

Originally Posted by Troll2k

All the first run 1155 boards had the Sata issue.The new boards out should have the new chips.Most manufacturers will say B3 on the box or literature.That is the new revision.

As far as I know the only difference between the h67 and the p67 is that the h67 has an integrated video port.No onboard video on the p67.


Note:
If you are looking at an 1155 board I assume you were able to return your other parts.

Ok mate thanks for clarification! Yes, items have been returned, they were ok with the box being opened, just waiting for refund of cash. Browsing for parts in the meantime - really would like a 1155 motherboard with 4 memory slots, 2 pcie x16 slots, and vitally a firewire port at the rear IO. Firewire is hard to find these days. Happily, the 2500k is pretty cheap, a real bargain, as is Ram ( Corsair £32 at oc.co.uk right now).