Anyone know why this motherboard is no longer offered?

[johnstac]

I am getting ready to build a new rig. I just built one in January but I have been unhappy with it. My current m/b is a Gigabyte P67A seen here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128479

I was just wondering if anyone knew why it was no longer being offered and any suggestions on what to upgrade the motherboard to? Thanks.

 

[rjkucia]

Are you planning on upgrading to a different platform? Or are you keeping your CPU and other components?

 

[ko888]

I think the P67 chipset motherboards are on their way out because of the Z68 chipset motherboards that are priced very closely to their P67 counterparts.

The Z68 chipset is what the P67 chipset should have been.

 

[johnstac]

Well, I actually built two rigs. The first one I upgraded to the Z68 but kept the same i7-2600 processor. The other right still has the P67 board mentioned above. If it is a bad chipset, I would prefer to upgrade it now before I build her's using my old m/b.

 

[draggoth]

There was indeed a problem with some of the early P67/H67 chipsets, but it was fixed a while ago and the motherboard you mention looks like it's the B3 model(with no bugs), maybe they just ran out of stock on this one.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall

The P67/H67 chipsets aren't bad at all, I think they can still be very viable platforms for a while, it's just that the Z68 has the combined features of P67/H67 and also throws in a couple of nice new things, like ssd caching.

Also, I'm not completely sure but some Z68 motherboards are gonna be able to support the new 22nm processors from Intel coming next year with just a bios update, so that might extend the usability of those boards.