Today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the
P8P67LE from ASUS. So cameraman has
already jumped ahead of me and he's looking at all of the different stuff down here. So we have their
uh this is their turbo whatever it's called turbo processing unit or
something like that. Anyway, between these two you can either boost up
performance or you can improve energy efficiency. Let's just say that much.
Here we have support for SATA 6 Gbit per second. We have USB 3 and Memo K. And I
actually used the Memo K button on an ASUS motherboard recently for the first
time. It actually works. I was not able to post because the memory was not 100%
compatible with the P67 chipset. I used the memo K button. It set it to a
totally safe setting and I was able to get into the BIOS to adjust all the
timings manually. Very neat. Uh certificate of assurance, low radiation,
eco-friendly, and anti- surge. Well, there it is. Okay. It supports the any
CPU on LGA1 1155. So that is Core i5
Core i7 CPUs on LG 1155. It is not
backwards compatible with LG 1156 and you will ruin something if you try and
do that. All right, we have an EFI BIOS which is a very cool thing as well as AI
suite which has all kinds of neat functionality like adjusting fan
profiles, uh that turbo thing, the eco thing, as well as monitoring your
temperature. So, let's get the board opened
up. And we have accessories. Whoa, an
IDE cable. I haven't seen an IDE cable
in a motherboard box in a little while, actually. So, there's one. Here we have
two SATA two right angle cables. We have
one SATA 36 GB per second right angle cable. Please note, there's no physical
difference between them other than the white color coding, which doesn't
matter. Here's an IO shield. Here is a users's guide and here is a support DVD
and powered by ASUS sticker. Download the latest from the ASUS website. Don't
bother with that CD. This is an LE board, so that is why we are seeing a
fairly limited uh accessory package on this guy.
However, uh-oh, that could be bad news. Check this out. I found a jumper. Okay,
so this jumper was probably somewhere. We are going to go
on a voyage of discovery and try to
figure out where this jumper came from. My guess would be the chassis intrusion.
Oh no. Oh, here we are. Here we are. Clear. This is a clear SIMOS. There is
no chassis intrusion thing. So 1 to two is normal. Let's assume one to two is
those two. There we go. So that's where that came from hopefully. And here's the
board. So, let's start in the middle where we have our LGA1 1155 CPU socket,
which supports, as I mentioned before, all Core i5 and Core i7 chips on this
platform. That means because we're using the P67 chipset, you have full support
for overclocking K series unlocked chips as well as turning up the turbo on turbo
supporting processors. But because it's P67, it will not support the onboard
video on any of the Core i second
generation chips. Here we have a Wave style MOSFET heat sink. It looks like
this board is using like a 4 + 1 phase power design as far as I can tell.
Um, yeah, hard to say. That's what it looks like though. So guys, please
correct me if I'm wrong on that one because it doesn't indicate anything on
the box itself and that makes life
difficult for Lionus H. Okay. Well, let's keep on
moving along then. Here is our 8 pin CPU connector in its ideal location. Here is
our dual channel DDR3 supporting slots. So up to four slots up to I believe it
can support up to 32 gigs of memory, although please once again correct me if
I'm wrong. Here's the memo K button. one IDE port. Check that out. Yo, so if you
have an IDE drive you want to use, this is the board you want because most P67
boards do not support IDE drives. Here's our 24 pin power connector in its ideal
location. Here are a couple of SATA 36 GB
pers. And wow, here's another one. So that must be off the same controller as
this IDE uh as this IDE port. Okay, here
is our chipset cooler. So that's the IO
controller chip under there that's going to be running also the SATA 6 gigbit per
second ports as well as the SATA 3 Gbit per second ports. Here we have four
front USB headers, a FireWire header, we have apparently a clear SMOS jumper as
well as a COM 1 header. Okay, in terms of
expansion slots, it's a P67 board, so that means it is Crossfire ready. We do
have support for uh one 16x card up here
or dual 8x cards. So that means if you want to run Crossfire, you will have
enough bandwidth for two cards without any issues. Here we have two PCI slots,
three PCI slots. This is a relatively low-end board. So that's something that
I've come to expect because you may want to carry forward your sound card or some
other PCI device. We've got two PCIe 1X slots. And this is a fairly ideal uh
layout. Although maybe I'd prefer one more PCIe 1X slot accessible if you are
running dual dual slot cards because you're going to be left with two PCI and
one PCIe1X if you're running a Crossfire
configuration. So let's have a look at the IO shield on the back of the board.
Here we have dedicated PS2 ports for keyboard and mouse. Two USB 3.0 ports,
optical audio out, six USB 2.0 ports.
We've got ESATA, FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet, and 7.1 audio out. So, nothing
particularly exceptional about the back of the board except Oh, look at this.
ASUS is using screws, spring-mounted screws for the chipset cooler. So,
that's uh that's a pretty nice touch. I do like to see screws used for mounting
coolers versus push pins, but it's not always possible for economic reasons.
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