With Cougar pulled, what options stand?

[eklass]

I was in the middle of procuring all the items for my Sandy Bridge build when a giant blizzard blew through the Chicago, leaving me unable to pick up my reservation from MicroCenter.

Now, it seems there's not a P67/H67 motherboard to be found, yet I want to continue building. Are those of us which haven't yet purchased a board effectively out of luck until replacements hit the shelves?

 

[Krynj]

They can still be found all over the web.

I ordered a GIGABYTE P67 board from www.beachaudio.com today, and it already shipped.

 

[Lord XenoTeK]

All of my usual spots are completely void of all p67/h67 boards. It looks like eBay is one of the only options.

 

[Diogenes2]

Buy.com is showing stock on UD5 ..

http://www.buy.com/prod/giga-byte-ul...219054545.html

They might have others :

http://www.buy.com/sr/searchresults....=1&qu=lga-1155

 

[JWalker55]

I ordered an Asus P8P67 and an i5-2500k from Buy.com yesterday and both shipped (and promptly disappeared off their site), though they've yet to charge me for the board, which makes me nervous. I've seen a few still on Tigerdirect today also.

 

[Hogan773]

I may be too cautious but I'm not sure I'd get it off Ebay, unless you're willing to forego the mobo swap in a couple months......why not just wait a little longer?

 

[Krynj]

Like I said, www.beachaudio.com is still shipping H/P67 boards. Bought mine today, and it already shipped.

You have to search by model/product numbers, otherwise you'll have a hard time finding what you're looking for.

 

[BoomerD]

Looks like Amazon is still selling them:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=amb_link...Intel+lga+1155

 

[Synomenon]

Beach Audio is a good place. I've ordered parts from them before.

I got my Gigabyte GA-67MA-UD2H from Buy.com:
http://www.buy.com/prod/giga-byte-u...el-chipset-micro-atx/q/loc/101/219054547.html

 

[eklass]

I guess what I'm getting at, is that it's very hit & miss right now and will continue to be so for the coming months. Until Intel refreshes the channel with updated parts, building a system is going to be tough to accomplish.

…that is, unless there's some other northbridge or a manufacturer pushes something out which uses a separate SATA controller.