The primary reason here is that a last generation processor will not work with a series 6 chipset and vice versa. The new SB processors do not share that same socket, Intel placed them onto socket LGA 1155, one pin less. The previous Clarkdale Core series processors were seated onto a LGA 1156 package (socket).
Next to the new chipsets is also a small socket change. Paired with Sandy Bridge based processors come motherboard chipsets, ten in total, of which five are intended for desktop processors, namely the P67, H67, Q65, Q67, B65 and now Z68. The Z68 however does come with full overclocking potential, meaning you could use say a Core i7 2600K processor, use the internal graphics and you can still overclock to over 4 GHz, and in fact we took the processor close to 5 GHz which is the top limit our processor can take really.įeatures wise, it's pretty much all the same though. It works vice versa as well, the H67 chipset was not allowed to be overclocked by Intel.
You can look at the chipset as a combination of H67 and P67, as it carries the H67 support for the internal graphics on the Sandy Bridge processors and the motherboards will have the proper monitor outputs that P67 does not have. So really the Z68 is pretty much merely a small update.
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