Friends,First ... I've been looking ... does anyone know where an Asus P8P67 series or Gigabyte P67-UD5 MOBO's may be secured stateside. Obviously, just about everyone has pulled them. Maybe I am too late and will have to live with my netbook for three months. My desktop MOBO failed and I can hardly justify the effort/cost of rebuilding an E6700 for that duration!!Second, Has anyone on this forum experienced ACTUAL problems of any kind with the SATA 2 ports? My FSX had grown to nearly 150 gigs and [i am NOT a technician] I think the optical drives go through SATA 2, right? Also I am not clear as to whether ALL of the SATA 2 ports are affected or just some of them??? I could use all SATA 3 HDD's, but stil must reply on SATA 2 just to load sim files, if nothing else. That is a lot of data transfer. I would be completely rebuilding FSX on SATA 3 drives.In short does anyone know where I can find a board ... and has anyone had a SATA 2 problem?Feel free to answer PM or [email protected] if you like.Thank you, Steve

So far none. I went back and hooked everything up on my SATA III so I don't have to go back when the SATA II fails. People are recommmending that you put your optical dirve through SATA II IF you have more drives than SATA III ports then put your least important on SATA II (i.e disk drives) If you don't want to worry you could buy a pci-e card for more ports.And I am not sure where you could get any boards now. Newegg pulled it and even their Sandy Bridge processors

Wow! The CPU also, huh? I think I located a couple of third party sellers who would go ahead and sell me the Asus motherboard, but they are on the West Coast and I am very hesitant to have to deal with such a long distance when trying to return my board when the new ones are released. Also, since I only have one desktop, I would be down for way to long. All things considered, I have decided to have a new mother board installed in my present desktop. The builder promised to credit me 75% of the price when I change over to the 2600K system in April or whenever it is possible.I haven't upgraded my E6700 system in 3 1/2 years, I suppose i can wait another 3 to 4 months.

Wow! The CPU also, huh? I think I located a couple of third party sellers who would go ahead and sell me the Asus motherboard, but they are on the West Coast and I am very hesitant to have to deal with such a long distance when trying to return my board when the new ones are released. Also, since I only have one desktop, I would be down for way to long. All things considered, I have decided to have a new mother board installed in my present desktop. The builder promised to credit me 75% of the price when I change over to the 2600K system in April or whenever it is possible.I haven't upgraded my E6700 system in 3 1/2 years, I suppose i can wait another 3 to 4 months.

There is nothing wrong with the CPU. Newegg just took off the cpu so people were not buying products that you couldn't use. I enjoy my 2500K

There is nothing wrong with the CPU. Newegg just took off the cpu so people were not buying products that you couldn't use. I enjoy my 2500K

Thanks FSX flyer ... yeah, I figured that was the deal. They didn't want people having Sandy in their arms with no way to make love. Happy for you guys that got going early ... Wonder from what you upgraded and approximate FPS change you have experienced ... apples to apples (equivalent FSX settings ... unless, of course you traded your vid card memory and the whole shooting match.

Thanks FSX flyer ... yeah, I figured that was the deal. They didn't want people having Sandy in their arms with no way to make love. Happy for you guys that got going early ... Wonder from what you upgraded and approximate FPS change you have experienced ... apples to apples (equivalent FSX settings ... unless, of course you traded your vid card memory and the whole shooting match.

I built a whole new computer. It was my first build. I went from a Dell XPS 420 that had a Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz 3gb ram(not sure of the specs of that) ati 3870 512mb to whats in my sig

Friends,First ... I've been looking ... does anyone know where an Asus P8P67 series or Gigabyte P67-UD5 MOBO's may be secured stateside. Obviously, just about everyone has pulled them. Maybe I am too late and will have to live with my netbook for three months. My desktop MOBO failed and I can hardly justify the effort/cost of rebuilding an E6700 for that duration!!Second, Has anyone on this forum experienced ACTUAL problems of any kind with the SATA 2 ports? My FSX had grown to nearly 150 gigs and [i am NOT a technician] I think the optical drives go through SATA 2, right? Also I am not clear as to whether ALL of the SATA 2 ports are affected or just some of them??? I could use all SATA 3 HDD's, but stil must reply on SATA 2 just to load sim files, if nothing else. That is a lot of data transfer. I would be completely rebuilding FSX on SATA 3 drives.In short does anyone know where I can find a board ... and has anyone had a SATA 2 problem?Feel free to answer PM or [email protected] if you like.Thank you, Steve

FWIW I visited the local Micro Center 2 nights ago (Feb 10th) and bought the 2600K cpu and the salesman asked me if I needed the mb too and I told him I already had it. So they may be selling them if you have one in your area. I just checked their site and they do not have them for sell on the Internet but they probably have them in their store.Best regards,Jim

As of last Wednesday (Feb 9) Central Computers in Santa Clara, Ca. had about a dozen or so Asus P67 deluxe and Pro boards in stock.