ASUS P8P67-M Pro mATX SLI Crossfire Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,163 words · ~5 min read
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now I've looked at a fair number of p67 and h67 sandybridge ready motherboards
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over the last little while but I haven't looked at many matx ones so this is a
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reasonably high performance looking matx
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p67 motherboard supporting all the latest Intel LGA 1155 CPUs that is core
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i3s core i5s and core i7s it is a
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p67 chipset motherboard which means that it does not support the Onboard video of
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these CPUs but it does support their
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unlocked performance of the K series processor so you can overclock K series
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chips on this board we've got their epu chip which is for energy saving we've
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got SATA 3 6 gbit per second we've got USB 3.0 UEFI graphical BIOS and I think
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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
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TPU which is for more performance epu which is for Energy savings okay we've
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got some other stuff here what do we
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got H SAA 3 protect
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3.0 uh which is basically uh lower power
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consumption to protect the environment lower electromagnetic emissions to
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protect you and yeah hold on I'm thinking cuz I
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don't see it in here uh yeah something about um stabilizing power spikes to
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protect your motherboard although I don't think that's here but that's what protect the
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p with AI Suite 2 which is their software and the EFI BIOS let's have a
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look at the board like I said this looks like a pretty high performance board and
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comes with what appears to be a pretty high performance package so let's see
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we've got our users's guide we've got an ASUS sticker and we've also got an ASUS
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software DVD so throw that away download the latest from the ASUS website we've
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got two SATA 36 GB per second cables both of them right angle and two SATA
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two 3 GB per second cables those are both right angle as well please note
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other than the color difference there's no difference between those cables they
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are both fine so we've got Q connectors which are an easier way of plugging in
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your front panel connectors as well as your front USB and this is what made me
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think this is a performance board cuz they got their extra foam padding on the
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io Shield you only really see that you
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know on higher performance boards from
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Aus it's true I tell you all right we
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got their environmentally friendly packaging with only paper is good and
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we've got a motherboard all right pretty nice
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looking board overall actually I can say that with confidence right off the bat
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and you know I'm so happy to see more and more of this all the time PCI
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Express for one thing and high density
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of PCI Express slots on matx board so
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this board fully supports SLI and Crossfire X so this one runs it okay you
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know what I'll get to that later okay we've got our 1155 socket uh which is
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compatible like I said with all the latest processors don't try and put an
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1156 chip in there it will not work we've got an 8 Pin power connector we've
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got some pretty nice looking wave style mosfet heat sinks around that CPU socket
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they're nice and low profile though here you can see that from the side so you
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shouldn't have any trouble with any of your Tower heat sinks or whatever kind of heat sink you want to install on here
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we've got four sticks of dual Channel
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DDR3 memory compatibility capability and
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this is the easy install kind so there's no clip here there's only a clip on this
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side okay so you just slot the memory in this side open up the clip slot it in
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this side clip is shut only one clip
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we've got a memo K button which should pretty much ensure that your board will
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boot with any memory no problem okay
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we've got their TPU switch we've got
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what on Earth is this oh trust platform module okay we've got our 24 pin power
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connector we've got hm okay I don't
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think this is actually an anti-surge SATA 6 gbit per second Port I think this
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is just a SATA 3 6 gbit per second port
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and they're talking about the anti- surge technology that is part of uh
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protect 3.0 okay next we have a BIOS chip then we've got two SATA 3 6 GB per
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second ports four SATA 2 3 GB per second ports a chipset cooler and finally we've
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got our front panel connectors four USB 2.0 front panel headers we've got a a
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fire wire front panel header a is that
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really a parallel port
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header fascinating okay and then and then we've got aha
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okay we're down to the PCI Express slot so I love it they' they killed PCI so
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this is a high-end board no PCI done boom we've got a PCIe 16x slot that runs
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at full 16x PCIe 1X slot that will be
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covered as soon as you put your high performance dual slot graphics card in here we've got a PCIe 8X slot so this
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one only runs at 8X if you put something in it and then
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this one will run at 8X as well so it's either 16x or it's 8X 8X so full support
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for Crossfire and SLI remember PCIe 8X is enough for Crossfire and SLI this guy
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right here only runs at PCIe 4X actually hold on let me look at this
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yes good okay so this one only runs at PCIe 4X and that one's running off the
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South Bridge not off the PCI controller on the CPU so it's lower performance if
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you are running Crossfire or SLI use these two slots now what's funny is this
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board doesn't include an SLI Bridge so you may have to buy one but they are
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available so don't worry too much about it remember Crossfire bridges come with
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your video card not with your motherboard we got two PS2 ports one
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Mouse One keyboard we've got two USB 3.0 ports optical audio out we've got four
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USB 2.0 ports we've got fire wire eat
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and gigabit Ethernet with 7.1 audio to
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round out this board thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS p8p
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