14 DAY TRIAL // Intel motherboard news seem to abound lately, leaks uncovering almost everything there is to know about the company's future Sandy Bridge motherboards, a recent report also detailing the company's future LGA 1155 professional board lineup.
The new models are based upon the Q67, B65, and H61 chipsets, cover a wide range of uses and form factors, and are destined to replace aging LGA 775 and LGA 1156 offerings.
Staring with the Q67 based models we find three new motherboards, two of them using the micro-ATX form factor while the third comes as a mini-ITX offering.
Form these three models, the DQ67SW is destined to replace the DQ57TM as the top of the line model in the Executive series, the DQ67OW comes a replacement for the LGA 775 based DQ45CB while the mini-ITX DQ67EP is set to replace the DQ45EK.
Moving on to the Classics series we find the micro-ATX DB65AL motherboard which is based on the B65 chipset, this being designed especially for the SOHO business environment as it lacks some of the fancier features of the Q67 such as the remote management option, RAID support while also dropping one of the two SATA 6Gbps ports that come with the Q67.
The final chipset in Intel's business lineup is the H61 that found its way into three Intel motherboards, the DH61BE and DH61CR micro-ATX models and the mini-ITX DH61DL.
As far as availability is concerned all these will gradually show up, many models from the Classic series based on H55 as well as THE G43 and G41 chipsets still being sold throughout 2011.
As SemiAccurate suggests, this will be the case at least until Q2 2011, so Intel will market no less than four different sockets concurrently, although LGA1155 is bound to make all these obsolete somewhere down the line.