At the front side

Along with the release of Sandy Bridge processor,motherboard manufacturers introduce their corresponding products.And in the CES 2011,MiTAC also shows off its mobo based on  Sandy Bridge platform,but this motherboard is unique.

According to MiTAC,the mobo is just an engineering sample.From the picture,we can see it adopts Micro ATX design,employs 10 phase power supply and two PCI-E x16 slots,it seems that this is just one adopts Intel P67 chip.

However,when we look at I/O at the rear paenl,surprisingly,we find HDMI port.As we all know,P67 motherboards don’t support display output of Sandy Bridge integrated graphics,and only H67 mobos provide support.While H67 motherboards don’t offer CPU and memory overclocking option.

Do you remember that we once report Intel will introduce Z68 chip for overclocking of Sandy Bridge processors,the specs of Z68 are basically the same with P67,but it supports built-in display core output,and adds some optimization for processor/memory overclocking.

The motherboard adopts 10 phase power supply,which is supposed to be designed for processor overclocking.In addition,the mobo employs HDMI port.All this characteristics make us guess the mobo is most likely to be the first Z68 motherboard in the industry.

Picture courtesy of SemiAccurate