Today we're going to be unboxing a pretty premium product from ASUS. So,
you can tell from the deluxe moniker that this is a high-end board. This is
their P8P67. So, I'm going to go ahead and interpret
that for you. P8 means it is the current generation of Intel CPUs. So, that means
we have full support for Intel's LG 1155
socket processors. P67 is the chipset.
Deluxe is what this board is all about. So, you're going to find pretty much
every feature that you could possibly want. We have dual gigabit LAN. We have
USB 3.0. We have a Bluetooth. Okay,
we'll have to figure out what that is in a minute. Bluetooth enjoyment. All right. We have full digital VRM, which
is the most precise. And this this one's actually the big one for me. EFI BIOS.
So, that means that you have a full mouse interface with your BIOS,
including support for things like a scroll wheel. Like imagine that mouse
with scroll wheel support in the BIOS. Okay, so moving over here to the right
hand side of the front of the box. There
you are. Oh, hold on. I'll turn it off for a sec.
Okay, so full support for the uh Intel
Core series of processors on 1155. You got the P67 chipset and that's pretty
much everything that's there up here. This is interesting. So they have their
digital VRM EPU. So that's their I think
it's efficiency processing unit or it's basically for making things more energy
efficient. And then they also have their TPU.
Okay, those are dedicated processors.
Moving over to this side, we have the world's first. Okay, so the ultimate
turbo processor TPU is a chip for their
auto turning tuning and turbo V functions. So that is their automated
overclocking. We've also got the EFI BIOS, which I talked about already. AI
Suite 2 is their Windows software. So, it consolidates all of their ASUS
features into one software package.
Okay, we've got their EPU, which is, as I said before, is for energy efficiency.
And we have support for Oh, this is interesting. Quad GPU SLI and quad GPU
Crossfire X. Okay. DTS surround. And
let's move along to the back. I like this box. I love it when there's a
window to see the board through. Big fan of that, actually. Okay, so Oh, let's
find out what BT Go is. Okay, Bluetooth model. Oh, it just means it has
Bluetooth. Oh, that's simple then. Okay, digital power design. The new standard.
So, their new generation intelligent processors with Digi Plus VRM control 16
plus2. Wow, that's a lot of phases. So, they have a 16 plus2 phase power design
on this particular board. Basically, that's to deliver cleaner
power to your CPU, which should allow in theory for better overclocking. So,
that's a good thing. Complete USB 3.0 solution, including back panel as well
as front panel USB. And they've called
out the front panel USB again here. Extra SATA 6 Gbit per second support.
So, you actually have four ports on this board. Whereas with all of the previous
generation, well I should say almost all of the previous generation Intel boards
that is on the P-55 chipset, we'd only see two USB 2.0 or 3.0 ports and two
SATA 6 Gbit per second ports. So let's have a look at what we have in terms of
accessory package. We've got an IO shield. We have four SATA 6 Gbit per
second ports and two SATA 3 GB per second ports. Please note these are
identical other than the colors on the cables. There's no reason that you can't
use one for the other and vice versa. We have an SLI bridge.
We have their Q connectors. So that allows you to easily plug in your front
panel connectors and then plug the whole brick into your motherboard. We have a
front panel USB. Oh, this thing's heavy.
Okay, so here it is. So, front panel USB 3.0 box. It's got a nice sort of finish
on the top of it here that is quite quite classy. It plugs into or rather
slots into a 3 and 1/2 in drive bay. And
then this cable is going to run over to your motherboard where they have a USB
3.0 front panel header. Outstanding. Oh
yeah, there's what it looks like from the front as well. Okay, so that's a
great feature especially because most cases these days don't have USB 3.0 know
integrated in a in a with a header on them uh like that in the front. So, Digi
VRM BTC go there's a little user guide and here is your full user guide for
this motherboard including a powered by sticker and a DVD that you don't need
because you can download the latest drivers and utilities off of the ASUS
website.
Now, let's pull this guy out and have a look at what there is to see on the
PAP67 Deluxe. So, first of all, I'll tell you
guys, I really like the aesthetic of this particular board. It's pretty much
in line with what they were doing on their P-55 boards other than the
Republic of Gamers series board. So, we've got kind of a pale and dark blue
and white and black color scheme, which actually goes together a lot better than
it might initially sound like. As you guys can obviously see, I love what ASUS
has been doing lately with their uh PWM heatsink designs. Uh my personal
favorite was their what I call their Fortress of Solitude one where it was
kind of like a spiky thing, but I like this too. This is kind of like uh could
be waves or it could be grass, could be kind of anything actually. Very
abstract. I like it. You can see the 16phase power design under these heat
sinks. Okay. So, there's probably going to Yep. There's a couple more going around the corner over here. And then
they've also got some of their key ASUS branding on the board as well. So
they've got their dual intelligent processors too over here as well as uh
ASUS logos sprinkled liberally uh along
the board. Okay, so let's have a look at the layout then. And I'm just going to
lift this up so we can start in the middle where we have our LG 1155 socket.
So, as I mentioned before, that has full support for Intel's new Core series
processors on the 1155 socket. And here
in the top left corner, we have our eight pin connector exactly where it
belongs in its optimal, ideal, and preferred location. Over on the right
side of the board, we have our four uh
DDR3 slot supporting dual channel operation, as well as our 24 pin
connector in its ideal location. along the right hand edge of the board. We
have our memo K button here as well as
their TPU processor switch. So bear in mind that is there. Okay, let's keep
moving down the board. We're going to find our USB 3.0 header. This might seem
like an odd location for it, but when you look at how short the cable is on
the front panel connector, that is probably the reason for the header to be
located there. So when you plug this in in the front of your case, right, you're
going to only have to run it this far to get to the USB 3 header. So you can
pretty much reach anywhere in front of a typical case without any hassle.
Okay, in terms of storage, we have SATA 6 Gbit per second. So those are
colorcoded dark blue and white. And then we have four SATA 3 GB per second ports,
which are colorcoded pale blue.
Here's our chipset heatsink.
All right, let me take this off. You can see it a little better. Oh, I like that.
Check that out. So, it actually has a bit of texture to the ASUS logo on
there. It looks really, really sharp. Aesthetics matter to me, guys. I I I
actually do care when I'm shopping for a motherboard. I wanted I have a windowed
case and cameraman's looking at my Star Wars t-shirt again. I have a windowed
case and I do like to see a nicel looking board because really that the
largest thing in your case. So, it's going to be kind of overwhelming if it's
ugly. So, here we have a an LED post indicator. So, that'll give you any
error codes if you're having problems getting your system to boot up. And uh
next over here, we have our USB 2.0 front panel headers. We have a reset and
power switch, both built in. There's our EPU switch. So, that's for the other
intelligent processor. And then moving up to our PCI slot layout. So, we have
one two PCIe 1x slots. We have two PCIe
16X slots, but please note the P67 chipset or yeah, P67 chipset, much like
the P-55 chipset, has support for a
single card in 16x mode, two cards in 8X
mode and not two cards in 16x mode.
Okay, it doesn't matter in terms of performance, but it is a distinction
that you should be aware of. If you want dual 16x slots, you're going to have to
move up to X58. So, we've got two PCIe uh two PCI slots
if you have any legacy devices. And then down here, this is a physical PCIe 16X
slot, but this one operates only at 4X. So, you can either put a 1X card down
here or you can put in a 4X card like a RAID controller or something else like
that, really high-end Nick, whatever the case may be.
Moving along to the back of the board, we have all of these options. So, let's
Oh, yeah. There's our Bluetooth. Okay. So, we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight USB 2.0
ports. We have one of those PS2 mouse keyboard combo ports that I'm so fond
of. We have optical audio out as well as coaxial audio out. Two ESATA ports. And
then we've also got, like I said before, our Bluetooth. We have one FireWire
port. We have two gigabit Ethernet ports. And I should mention these are
running off of the Intel built-in LAN
rather than a third-p party controller. And that's one of the things that ASUS
actually calls out right on their board. Intel Ethernet, great capability.
Okay, we have a clear SIMO switch as well as 7.1
analog audio on the back of the
motherboard. That pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the P8
P67 Deluxe. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and don't forget to
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