Motherboards can look alike from afar, but once you begin building a computer system with one you quickly realize where extra time has been spent to make your life easier. A physical power and reset switch are easily accessible, at the back of the system is a physical clear CMOS button.

E-SATA, USB 2.0, USB 3.0 (in blue) and network jacks allow for many peripherals to be connected.

While USB 2.0's 480Mb/s maximum bandwidth was enough for many years, USB 3.0 (above in blue) expands the bandwidth to a whopping 4.8Gb/s (4800Mb/s) which is more appropriate for today's large mass storage devices. Much of this speed improvement is due to USB 3.0 being a bi-directional bus, meaning it can transfer information to a device and to a host computer simultaneously.

Overclocking features are represented in the ECS H67H2-M BIOS as you might expect, but it remains to be seen how well Sandy Bridge processors will handle being pushed past default Turbo Speed clocks. In case something goes awry during overclocking, the onboard Port 80 card will throw up an error code.

Stay tuned for the full review of the H67H2-M motherboard from ECS when the NDA officially drops in early 2011.

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