ASUS P8P67 Pro P67 LGA1155 Core i7 SLI Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the ASUS p8p 67 Pro so the
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pro um well for quite a few Generations
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now since kind of the p45 P35 days has
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really represented a fantastic value and
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usually means dual Graphics support so why don't we dig a little bit further
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into this one and find out what it has to offer so first we have the most
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precise Digi plus vrm so that means digital voltage regulation we have
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Bluetooth built in in as well as USB 3.0 built in it has a ufi BIOS which means
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you have full Mouse control over the BIOS versus the older style where you
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use only the keyboard to input we have
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SATA 2 or SATA 2 SATA 3 6 gbit per
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second ports on this particular board over here we find out just what kind of
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a board this is so it features the Intel p67 chipset which means you have full
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support for the Intel Core i5 core I3 and core i7 processors on LGA 1155 p67
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also supports all of the overclocking features of the K series and turbo
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boosted processors unlike h67 which does
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not support them however also unlike h67
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it does not support the Onboard video on
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these processors so let's just see if there's anything else on the back here
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four ports in total for USB 3.0 that's good more about the Bluetooth more about
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uh the ultimate turbo processor Energy Efficiency all around you can pause that
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if you want to read that I suppose and I think that's pretty much it for the
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outside of the box let's have a look at the inside wow the board's right on top
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look at that but I'm not going to let you see it just yet I am going to make
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you guys wait and we're going to look at the accessories first so oo this is nice
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check that out USB 3.0 internal header I
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hate those passrs and then we have four
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additional USB 3.0 ports for the back of the case we have two SATA 2 3 GB per
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second cables and two SATA 3 6 GB per second cables although please note there
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is nothing physically different about those cables other than the color we
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have an IO Shield we have an SLI Bridge
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we have front Q connectors for the front panel case plugs as well as one front
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USB 2.0 we have a user guide for Digi
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plus vrm as well as the Bluetooth and then finally we have a full users guide
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for the motherboard an assus sticker as
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well as a DVD which you should completely ignore throw away and
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download the latest drivers and utilities off of the ASUS
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website here we have an anti-static
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bag which
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contains a motherboard so this looks an awful lot
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like the deluxe version of the board that I've had the pleasure of tinkering
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around with and I'm quite impressed by so why don't we just start in the middle
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of the board where the CPU socket is so this as I mentioned before is is an LGA
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1155 socket please do not try to install your LGA 1156 CPU in there it will
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probably break the mord and the CPU here
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we have cooling for our digital vrm which I'm just going to see if I can
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count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 looks like 10
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plus 2 phase power going to the CPU so that's pretty good for digital and then
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let's see moving up we've got our 8 Pin power connector exactly where it belongs
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in the top leftand corner of the board we have our CPU four pin connector here
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we're using the quick install ASUS style
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DDR3 modules uh module slots so that
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means that this side does not open and close you just open up the one side
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slide in the module to the one side close it and clip it in here's the memo
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K button so the memo K button I actually had to use this for the first time today
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and what you do is with the system off instead of pressing the power switch
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which uh this one unlike the deluxe version I'm tinkering with does not have
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an on board power switch so instead of using the power switch you press the M
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button it boots up the system with a safe setting for the memory so you'll be
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sure to post every time it does work here's our 24 pin power connector and
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it's ideal location along the right hand edge of the board and moving down to the
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storage oh no no not storage yet USB 3.0
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conveniently located in the front of the board well rather the front of your case
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so if you have front panel USB 3.0 this is a great place for that love it here
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is four ports of SATA 3 6 GB pers second
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two of these are running off of the Intel chipset two of them are running off of a thirdparty chipset these four
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are sat to 3 gbit per second and those are also running off the Intel chipset
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moving down we have our front panel so that's your power switch reset switch uh
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Power LED here's three USB 2.0 front
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panel headers so that's a total of up to six ports or six devices here we have
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our front fire wire as well as our front audio out PCI Express slot layout pretty
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happy with this one you can see it has seven total expansion slots which I
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always appreciate because six especially if you're running dual Graphics simply
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isn't enough in some cases you can see right here we have 1 two three PCI e6x
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slots although please note only these two are going to run at anything
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resembling 16x if you're running a single graphics card you want to put it
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here for full 16x operation if you're running two and this is a limitation of
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the p67 chipset unless you're putting on additional chips such as an nf200 these
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are going to run at 8X and 8x if you install a third they will run at 8X 8X
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and 4x and bear in mind this 4X is going to be coming off of not off the uh PCI E
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Lanes on the CPU directly but rather through the South Bridge well it's kind
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of an archaic term now but I'm going to call it a South Bridge because I'm lazy
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and so it's not ideal for graphics card use although it's fine for something
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like a RAID controller or a really high-end network card we also have two
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PCI slots and I pretty much agree with the placement of them because if you
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have two PCI Express graphics cards that are both dual slot remaining you will
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have one PCI e1x slot up here you will
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have one PCI slot and you will have one PCIe Forex slot so that's a pretty good
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mix of expansion options on a more value oriented board nice to have that one
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Legacy PCI slot available to you so we have two dedicated PS2 ports one for
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keyboard one for Mouse we have digital audio out in both flavors Optical as
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well as coaxial we have one two 3 4 5 6
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USB 2.0 ports one eSATA one powered eat
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2 USB 3.0 ports gigabit Ethernet as well
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as 7.1 audio and here's something to note ASUS is actually using the Intel
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gigabit Ethernet that is included on the chipset I believe it does cost them more
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to license it so most motherboard manufacturers put on thirdparty chips
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including Aus on previous generations but now they are using the onboard
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gigabit Ethernet which apparently has great capability
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