now I've looked at a fair number of p67 and h67 sandybridge ready motherboards
over the last little while but I haven't looked at many matx ones so this is a
reasonably high performance looking matx
p67 motherboard supporting all the latest Intel LGA 1155 CPUs that is core
i3s core i5s and core i7s it is a
p67 chipset motherboard which means that it does not support the Onboard video of
these CPUs but it does support their
unlocked performance of the K series processor so you can overclock K series
chips on this board we've got their epu chip which is for energy saving we've
got SATA 3 6 gbit per second we've got USB 3.0 UEFI graphical BIOS and I think
that's pretty much all they've got to say for themselves on the front let's see what ASUS has on the back so their
TPU which is for more performance epu which is for Energy savings okay we've
got some other stuff here what do we
got H SAA 3 protect
3.0 uh which is basically uh lower power
consumption to protect the environment lower electromagnetic emissions to
protect you and yeah hold on I'm thinking cuz I
don't see it in here uh yeah something about um stabilizing power spikes to
protect your motherboard although I don't think that's here but that's what protect the
p with AI Suite 2 which is their software and the EFI BIOS let's have a
look at the board like I said this looks like a pretty high performance board and
comes with what appears to be a pretty high performance package so let's see
we've got our users's guide we've got an ASUS sticker and we've also got an ASUS
software DVD so throw that away download the latest from the ASUS website we've
got two SATA 36 GB per second cables both of them right angle and two SATA
two 3 GB per second cables those are both right angle as well please note
other than the color difference there's no difference between those cables they
are both fine so we've got Q connectors which are an easier way of plugging in
your front panel connectors as well as your front USB and this is what made me
think this is a performance board cuz they got their extra foam padding on the
io Shield you only really see that you
know on higher performance boards from
Aus it's true I tell you all right we
got their environmentally friendly packaging with only paper is good and
we've got a motherboard all right pretty nice
looking board overall actually I can say that with confidence right off the bat
and you know I'm so happy to see more and more of this all the time PCI
Express for one thing and high density
of PCI Express slots on matx board so
this board fully supports SLI and Crossfire X so this one runs it okay you
know what I'll get to that later okay we've got our 1155 socket uh which is
compatible like I said with all the latest processors don't try and put an
1156 chip in there it will not work we've got an 8 Pin power connector we've
got some pretty nice looking wave style mosfet heat sinks around that CPU socket
they're nice and low profile though here you can see that from the side so you
shouldn't have any trouble with any of your Tower heat sinks or whatever kind of heat sink you want to install on here
we've got four sticks of dual Channel
DDR3 memory compatibility capability and
this is the easy install kind so there's no clip here there's only a clip on this
side okay so you just slot the memory in this side open up the clip slot it in
this side clip is shut only one clip
we've got a memo K button which should pretty much ensure that your board will
boot with any memory no problem okay
we've got their TPU switch we've got
what on Earth is this oh trust platform module okay we've got our 24 pin power
connector we've got hm okay I don't
think this is actually an anti-surge SATA 6 gbit per second Port I think this
is just a SATA 3 6 gbit per second port
and they're talking about the anti- surge technology that is part of uh
protect 3.0 okay next we have a BIOS chip then we've got two SATA 3 6 GB per
second ports four SATA 2 3 GB per second ports a chipset cooler and finally we've
got our front panel connectors four USB 2.0 front panel headers we've got a a
fire wire front panel header a is that
really a parallel port
header fascinating okay and then and then we've got aha
okay we're down to the PCI Express slot so I love it they' they killed PCI so
this is a high-end board no PCI done boom we've got a PCIe 16x slot that runs
at full 16x PCIe 1X slot that will be
covered as soon as you put your high performance dual slot graphics card in here we've got a PCIe 8X slot so this
one only runs at 8X if you put something in it and then
this one will run at 8X as well so it's either 16x or it's 8X 8X so full support
for Crossfire and SLI remember PCIe 8X is enough for Crossfire and SLI this guy
right here only runs at PCIe 4X actually hold on let me look at this
yes good okay so this one only runs at PCIe 4X and that one's running off the
South Bridge not off the PCI controller on the CPU so it's lower performance if
you are running Crossfire or SLI use these two slots now what's funny is this
board doesn't include an SLI Bridge so you may have to buy one but they are
available so don't worry too much about it remember Crossfire bridges come with
your video card not with your motherboard we got two PS2 ports one
Mouse One keyboard we've got two USB 3.0 ports optical audio out we've got four
USB 2.0 ports we've got fire wire eat
and gigabit Ethernet with 7.1 audio to
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