ASRock P67 Transformer

This combines the P67 chipset and socket 1156:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ield,2815.html

Whaaa . . . Buuu . . . how?

Ok I need to read that.

This stinks so much....especially in the face of AMD trying hard to grant compatibility across sockets...

Ok now having read it, that's very intresting and not unexpected from ASRock, if there's one thing that ASRock does well it's crossover boards. :)

One thing this has shown us is that while the p67 opens up additional bandwidth it's really not that much of a change or improvement from the p55 chipset and intel could of easily made the new cpu's backward compatible, but didn't.

Also want to draw your attention to those gaming benchmarks, when equally OC'd to 4ghz there's no difference between the i5-750 and i5-2500k on DX11 games and DX10 games at 2560x1600, only on dx10 at 1680x1050 is there any real advantage to the new i5-2500k, except for power consumption (around 30-50w depending on cpu OC voltage variation) and that's more down to die shrink from 45nm to 32nm
Better efficiency, higher speeds & multipliers, it's sounding more and more like intel hasn't actually made that many major changes to the architecture as they'd like us to think and most of the performance gains are down to the die shrink.

Hopefully someone will come up with a way to separate out the base clocks on a p67 board and then we'll see how the new cpu's can really be pushed.