today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the ASUS p8p 67 Pro so the
pro um well for quite a few Generations
now since kind of the p45 P35 days has
really represented a fantastic value and
usually means dual Graphics support so why don't we dig a little bit further
into this one and find out what it has to offer so first we have the most
precise Digi plus vrm so that means digital voltage regulation we have
Bluetooth built in in as well as USB 3.0 built in it has a ufi BIOS which means
you have full Mouse control over the BIOS versus the older style where you
use only the keyboard to input we have
SATA 2 or SATA 2 SATA 3 6 gbit per
second ports on this particular board over here we find out just what kind of
a board this is so it features the Intel p67 chipset which means you have full
support for the Intel Core i5 core I3 and core i7 processors on LGA 1155 p67
also supports all of the overclocking features of the K series and turbo
boosted processors unlike h67 which does
not support them however also unlike h67
it does not support the Onboard video on
these processors so let's just see if there's anything else on the back here
four ports in total for USB 3.0 that's good more about the Bluetooth more about
uh the ultimate turbo processor Energy Efficiency all around you can pause that
if you want to read that I suppose and I think that's pretty much it for the
outside of the box let's have a look at the inside wow the board's right on top
look at that but I'm not going to let you see it just yet I am going to make
you guys wait and we're going to look at the accessories first so oo this is nice
check that out USB 3.0 internal header I
hate those passrs and then we have four
additional USB 3.0 ports for the back of the case we have two SATA 2 3 GB per
second cables and two SATA 3 6 GB per second cables although please note there
is nothing physically different about those cables other than the color we
have an IO Shield we have an SLI Bridge
we have front Q connectors for the front panel case plugs as well as one front
USB 2.0 we have a user guide for Digi
plus vrm as well as the Bluetooth and then finally we have a full users guide
for the motherboard an assus sticker as
well as a DVD which you should completely ignore throw away and
download the latest drivers and utilities off of the ASUS
website here we have an anti-static
bag which
contains a motherboard so this looks an awful lot
like the deluxe version of the board that I've had the pleasure of tinkering
around with and I'm quite impressed by so why don't we just start in the middle
of the board where the CPU socket is so this as I mentioned before is is an LGA
1155 socket please do not try to install your LGA 1156 CPU in there it will
probably break the mord and the CPU here
we have cooling for our digital vrm which I'm just going to see if I can
count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 looks like 10
plus 2 phase power going to the CPU so that's pretty good for digital and then
let's see moving up we've got our 8 Pin power connector exactly where it belongs
in the top leftand corner of the board we have our CPU four pin connector here
we're using the quick install ASUS style
DDR3 modules uh module slots so that
means that this side does not open and close you just open up the one side
slide in the module to the one side close it and clip it in here's the memo
K button so the memo K button I actually had to use this for the first time today
and what you do is with the system off instead of pressing the power switch
which uh this one unlike the deluxe version I'm tinkering with does not have
an on board power switch so instead of using the power switch you press the M
button it boots up the system with a safe setting for the memory so you'll be
sure to post every time it does work here's our 24 pin power connector and
it's ideal location along the right hand edge of the board and moving down to the
storage oh no no not storage yet USB 3.0
conveniently located in the front of the board well rather the front of your case
so if you have front panel USB 3.0 this is a great place for that love it here
is four ports of SATA 3 6 GB pers second
two of these are running off of the Intel chipset two of them are running off of a thirdparty chipset these four
are sat to 3 gbit per second and those are also running off the Intel chipset
moving down we have our front panel so that's your power switch reset switch uh
Power LED here's three USB 2.0 front
panel headers so that's a total of up to six ports or six devices here we have
our front fire wire as well as our front audio out PCI Express slot layout pretty
happy with this one you can see it has seven total expansion slots which I
always appreciate because six especially if you're running dual Graphics simply
isn't enough in some cases you can see right here we have 1 two three PCI e6x
slots although please note only these two are going to run at anything
resembling 16x if you're running a single graphics card you want to put it
here for full 16x operation if you're running two and this is a limitation of
the p67 chipset unless you're putting on additional chips such as an nf200 these
are going to run at 8X and 8x if you install a third they will run at 8X 8X
and 4x and bear in mind this 4X is going to be coming off of not off the uh PCI E
Lanes on the CPU directly but rather through the South Bridge well it's kind
of an archaic term now but I'm going to call it a South Bridge because I'm lazy
and so it's not ideal for graphics card use although it's fine for something
like a RAID controller or a really high-end network card we also have two
PCI slots and I pretty much agree with the placement of them because if you
have two PCI Express graphics cards that are both dual slot remaining you will
have one PCI e1x slot up here you will
have one PCI slot and you will have one PCIe Forex slot so that's a pretty good
mix of expansion options on a more value oriented board nice to have that one
Legacy PCI slot available to you so we have two dedicated PS2 ports one for
keyboard one for Mouse we have digital audio out in both flavors Optical as
well as coaxial we have one two 3 4 5 6
USB 2.0 ports one eSATA one powered eat
2 USB 3.0 ports gigabit Ethernet as well
as 7.1 audio and here's something to note ASUS is actually using the Intel
gigabit Ethernet that is included on the chipset I believe it does cost them more
to license it so most motherboard manufacturers put on thirdparty chips
including Aus on previous generations but now they are using the onboard
gigabit Ethernet which apparently has great capability
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