Asrock Fatal1ty P67 Professional Series Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,968 words · ~9 min read
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so the fatality motherboard brand has been reawakened this is the p67
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professional motherboard and it features
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a picture of Jonathan Wendell on the front as well as the fatality logo no
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I'm just kidding what it actually well it does have that what it actually
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figures features is Intel's p67 chipset
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it features a digital pwm design a 16
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plus 2phase CPU power delivery mechanism
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it has a fatality Mouse Port what is a fatality Mouse Port let me see so uh
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after plugging the USB mouse into the fatality Mouse port and running fstream
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Gamers can use fatality's personal preferred Mouse pulling rate at 500
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Hertz okay Neato next we have uh support
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for six USB 3.0 ports two front four back and six SATA
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3 we have three PCIe 2.0 slot supporting
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Crossfire X and SLI so that is in
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three-way Crossfire X and and up to NVIDIA quad SLI mind you by quad SLI
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they mean dual dual GPU cards in two slots we have premium gold caps all the
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capacitors on the fatality p67 Professional Series gaming motherboard
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are luxury premium gold caps these 100%
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Japanese made Solid capacitors are Sleek high gloss caps with a Premium Gold
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coating representing long life and stable performance so you can see here
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we have a window into the box where we can see the motherboard itself let's go
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ahead and have a look at the oh cameraman wants to look at the board okay that's okay we're going to open it
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up cameraman okay so we can have a look at the back of the board where they
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actually call out wow they actually do a fairly good job of summarizing the
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features of the board I'm not going to look at it now what I'm actually going
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to do is I'm going to open it up and I will use the box as a reference as I'm
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doing my usual guide of the board so
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first let's have a look at the accessories that we have here uh let's
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just figure out the packaging I've opened a few motherboard
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packages in my day so I think I can probably handle this there we
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are okay accessories here we go so we
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have a fatality setup guide okay we have
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a fat no way okay this is a quick installation guide it's this thick
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that's a finger for perspective so this must have a lot of different languages 1
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 different
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languages so the English section actually only goes to even then wow jeez
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so they're guiding you through I guess a whole lot of different stuffff on this
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particular motherboard we've got a driver oh oh this is nice this is handy
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so they give you all of the pinouts of all of the important connectors on the
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board in a nice little color diagram here and they clearly label them all
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that's a nice touch I actually really appreciate that right inside the front cover because as someone who's installed
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a couple of motherboards in my life that's usually the only thing I'm looking for inside a motherboard manual
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so here's p67 professional so download the latest uh off the fatality website I
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guess I actually don't know you know what guys leave a comment uh leave a comment on
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the video if you know what website to throw away the disc and download the
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latest drivers from please okay here we have a USB 3.0 back plate bracket all
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right we have an IO Shield that is conveniently colorcoded and labels the
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fatality Mouse Port right here okay next
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we have look at this IDE and floppy
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cables it features IDE and floppy go
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figure here all right here we have some SATA 3 6 GB per second cables although I
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can tell you right now there's likely no difference between these and any other
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SATA 2 cables but there you go they're certified just in case you were
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uncertain we have a Molex TOA connector uh power adapter rather we have an SLI
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Bridge yep SLI bridge in there next we
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have front USB 3.0 oh I get how this works so you can
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actually decide whether you want to use the conveniently included 3 and 1/2 in
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bay front USB 3.0 adapter or you can take the bracket in here install it in
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one of these and have two more in the rear that's actually a really clever
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really flexible solution I haven't seen that before all right let's get to the
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board itself hold on I'm going to make some room for a cameraman to uh be able
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to get around here and see it so the profess one on all series board from
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fatality so let's uh take in the overall look of this board you know what they've
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done a f fantastic job with the red and black color scheme black PCB uh you know
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what the gold okay the goldplated caps for all their excessiveness actually
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look really cool as part of the color scheme of this board like come in and
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check check those out that actually that actually looks really neat okay so let's
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do our overall tour of the motherboard
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starting with the CPU socket as I usually do so here's your LGA 1155
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socket so bear in mind this has support for Intel core I3 Cor I 5 and core i7
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processors only on LGA 1155 socket it
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does not support Onboard video because this is a p67 motherboard you'll need an
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h67 motherboard for Onboard video or a
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z68 here is the 16 plus 2 phase power
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design that is around the CPU socket that's going to deliver nice stable
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power you can see here that all of these heat sinks are actually swept back to
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provide a nice clear CPU heat sink mounting area so you should be able to
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mount pretty much anything you want on a board like this up here in the top in
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its ideal location we have our eight pin CPU power connector moving along to the
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right we've got four DDR3 dual Channel slots so these are using easy
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installation uh slots which means you only have to clip in the one side so
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we've seen that on ASUS motherboards as well as MSI motherboards in the past
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here we have a 24 pin power connector in exactly its ideal location and we have
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an IDE connector and if I did have an IDE connector on my board this is
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probably where I would want it because I would probably be using an IDE optical
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drive up near the top of my case this has a lot of theta connectors I'll tell
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you guys that much so here we have our
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SATA 2 so these are the 3 gbit per second connectors and then we have six
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SATA 3 6 gbit per second connectors so
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these guys right here are running off of the Intel
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chipset and these ones are running off a third party chipset you can see here
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there's a little notice for better performance and short boot up time we
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suggest you connect the hard drive that is your boot drive on ports 0 to five as
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your boot device so these guys not these guys you can use these for other
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additional things all right let's keep moving down the board and don't worry
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we're going to get back and have a look at the uh the heat sink cooling Solution
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on this board in a moment so here we have onboard power and reset buttons as
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well as a post readout LED love these
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these are very handy when you're trying to diagnose a dead ramp stick or a dead
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video card or something like that moving down we have our front panel connectors
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we've got a ton of fan headers on this motherboard you can just hook up like a
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whack of fans 1 two 3 four five six six
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fans that I can see and I think that's I think that's all we got but that's
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pretty darn good okay we've got 1 2 3 4 four USB 2.0 front headers One USB 3.0
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front header then we've also got a floppy connector for
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whatever reason we have that I don't actually know in terms of our you never
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know you might need it okay so we've got our PCI Express layout looks pretty good
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so far because this is a high-end board I actually really like this layout so if
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you're using a single graphics card they're assuming you're putting together
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a build that might just still have a legacy PCI card so you're going to go
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ahead and use this guy if you're using dual Graphics in a motherboard like this
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hey odds are pretty good you don't need any PCI so you can go ahead and still
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make use of this PCI e4x slot even
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though it's a physical 6X you can actually see it's only wired up to 4X
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you can make use of this PCI e1x slot and this PCI e1x slot giving you five
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usable PCI Express slots total even if you're using a dual graphics card
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configuration now the cooling on this board is done in a pretty neat way so
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you've actually got very low profile heat sinks on the chipsets and then
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you've got higher profile heat sinks connected via a heat pipe to those that
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are actually going to receive quite a bit of incidental cooling from whatever
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CPU cooling solution you're using so you're able to cool the chipsets and
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keep everything very flat on the board which is convenient for installing
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graphics card so you don't have anything in the way of these clips or anything like that and then you can actually do
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the cooling up here and keep it all centralized in one place so let's go
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ahead and oh I missed the fire wire Port sorry there's a front firewire port as
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well on this guy all right moving along here back panel connector we've got
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dedicated PS2 ports which I actually like I still like the PS2 Port you never
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know when you'll need it we've got a clear seos button Optical as well as
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coaxial digital audio out four USB 3.0
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ports on the back panel four USB 2.0 ports dual gigabit Ethernet we've got
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firewire eat as well as 7.1 audio out
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now I'm actually just going to because they list their
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uh because they list their uh their their features so neatly on the back of
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the motherboard box I'm actually going to go ahead and tell you guys if I
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missed anything so yeah we've got full support for ker unlocked processors
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which I did not mention before and I think that's pretty much it I covered it
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pretty well then good on me oh great yeah supports
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up to DDR3 2133 dual channel on these
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slots so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p67 motherboard from the
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