H61 - a viable option?

I've heard that Ivy Bridge Processors will also be compatible with H61 mobos, considering this, is it worth it to get an H61 for my brother's Intel i3-2100? Specially since H61 are a lot cheaper than P67 and Z68 mobos.. Im on a tight budget

Yep, it looks that way.

Manufacturers confirm


We spoke with a few motherboard manufactures and got word that the test version of Ivy Bridge they have works just fine in a few 60 series motherboards available today.

In order to run Ivy Bridge 22nm CPUs branded Core I 3000 series on Cougar Point chipset, you will need a new bios and drivers to make it happen, as well as M8 firmware. In that case Ivy bridge processors will work in H61, H67, P67 as well as Z68 boards.

Ivy Bridge won’t work in business edition Q65, Q67 and B65 chipsets as Intel hopes that business will buy complete platforms, not just upgrade CPUs.

Still, 70 series chipset codenamed Panther Point will be the first Intel chispet to offer native USB 3.0 support as well as PCI 3 gen for graphics enthusiasts as well as three display support. Our sources are telling us that Ivy Bridge looks fine, and that all should be ready for launch in March or April.

http://www.fudzilla.com/processors [...] ies-boards

I'm not sure, but I think that will only be with a certain processor, if you look at M4 series AMD mobos, they all say AMD series 100 CPUs only support 1066 mhz, but with ASUS design support 1333 mHz. In any case there is little noticable differece between 1333 adn 1600 in most cases

So, it means that my current RAM won't work with my mobo?

hey nikorr, can you list some of the manufactures (out of asus, gigabyte, intel and msi) or board with h61 that will definately support ivy.
Or all current h61 board will have the bios for ivy