ECS H67H2-M Black Deluxe

ECS H67H2-M Black Deluxe review

The Intel H67 chipset, which supports Sandy Bridge CPUs, has enabled motherboard manufacturers to bring out some impressively featured boards built to the mATX standard. Indeed most boards are nearly as featureladen as their full-sized ATX siblings. The latest addition to this list is the H67H2-M Black Deluxe. ECS's Black Deluxe range represents its performance boards coming with improved cooling, better quality components in the power circuitry and more tinkering options in the BIOS. The H67 chipset allows the integrated graphics of the Sandy Bridge core to come into play, although the only overclocking you can do is to the graphics engine. The version of the H67H2-M ECS supplied for us to review came with a reassuringly large B3 stepping sticker on the box, meaning it was built with the latest version of the chipset. This means it should have done away with the SATA performance degradation problems associated with the original B2 stepping iterations of Intel's first Sandy Bridge boards. Deluxe feel The H67H2-M Black Deluxe certainly looks the part, as is befitting a member of the Black Deluxe family, with a black PCB set off by grey and white onboard ports and slots.