ASUS P8P67 LE P67 Core i7 Crossfire Sandy Bridge 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
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P8P67LE from ASUS. So cameraman has
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already jumped ahead of me and he's looking at all of the different stuff down here. So we have their
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uh this is their turbo whatever it's called turbo processing unit or
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something like that. Anyway, between these two you can either boost up
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performance or you can improve energy efficiency. Let's just say that much.
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Here we have support for SATA 6 Gbit per second. We have USB 3 and Memo K. And I
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actually used the Memo K button on an ASUS motherboard recently for the first
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time. It actually works. I was not able to post because the memory was not 100%
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compatible with the P67 chipset. I used the memo K button. It set it to a
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totally safe setting and I was able to get into the BIOS to adjust all the
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timings manually. Very neat. Uh certificate of assurance, low radiation,
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eco-friendly, and anti- surge. Well, there it is. Okay. It supports the any
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CPU on LGA1 1155. So that is Core i5
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Core i7 CPUs on LG 1155. It is not
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backwards compatible with LG 1156 and you will ruin something if you try and
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do that. All right, we have an EFI BIOS which is a very cool thing as well as AI
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suite which has all kinds of neat functionality like adjusting fan
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profiles, uh that turbo thing, the eco thing, as well as monitoring your
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temperature. So, let's get the board opened
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up. And we have accessories. Whoa, an
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IDE cable. I haven't seen an IDE cable
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in a motherboard box in a little while, actually. So, there's one. Here we have
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two SATA two right angle cables. We have
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one SATA 36 GB per second right angle cable. Please note, there's no physical
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difference between them other than the white color coding, which doesn't
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matter. Here's an IO shield. Here is a users's guide and here is a support DVD
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and powered by ASUS sticker. Download the latest from the ASUS website. Don't
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bother with that CD. This is an LE board, so that is why we are seeing a
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fairly limited uh accessory package on this guy.
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However, uh-oh, that could be bad news. Check this out. I found a jumper. Okay,
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so this jumper was probably somewhere. We are going to go
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on a voyage of discovery and try to
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figure out where this jumper came from. My guess would be the chassis intrusion.
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Oh no. Oh, here we are. Here we are. Clear. This is a clear SIMOS. There is
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no chassis intrusion thing. So 1 to two is normal. Let's assume one to two is
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those two. There we go. So that's where that came from hopefully. And here's the
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board. So, let's start in the middle where we have our LGA1 1155 CPU socket,
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which supports, as I mentioned before, all Core i5 and Core i7 chips on this
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platform. That means because we're using the P67 chipset, you have full support
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for overclocking K series unlocked chips as well as turning up the turbo on turbo
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supporting processors. But because it's P67, it will not support the onboard
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video on any of the Core i second
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generation chips. Here we have a Wave style MOSFET heat sink. It looks like
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this board is using like a 4 + 1 phase power design as far as I can tell.
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Um, yeah, hard to say. That's what it looks like though. So guys, please
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correct me if I'm wrong on that one because it doesn't indicate anything on
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the box itself and that makes life
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difficult for Lionus H. Okay. Well, let's keep on
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moving along then. Here is our 8 pin CPU connector in its ideal location. Here is
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our dual channel DDR3 supporting slots. So up to four slots up to I believe it
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can support up to 32 gigs of memory, although please once again correct me if
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I'm wrong. Here's the memo K button. one IDE port. Check that out. Yo, so if you
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have an IDE drive you want to use, this is the board you want because most P67
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boards do not support IDE drives. Here's our 24 pin power connector in its ideal
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location. Here are a couple of SATA 36 GB
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pers. And wow, here's another one. So that must be off the same controller as
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this IDE uh as this IDE port. Okay, here
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is our chipset cooler. So that's the IO
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controller chip under there that's going to be running also the SATA 6 gigbit per
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second ports as well as the SATA 3 Gbit per second ports. Here we have four
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front USB headers, a FireWire header, we have apparently a clear SMOS jumper as
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well as a COM 1 header. Okay, in terms of
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expansion slots, it's a P67 board, so that means it is Crossfire ready. We do
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have support for uh one 16x card up here
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or dual 8x cards. So that means if you want to run Crossfire, you will have
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enough bandwidth for two cards without any issues. Here we have two PCI slots,
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three PCI slots. This is a relatively low-end board. So that's something that
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I've come to expect because you may want to carry forward your sound card or some
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other PCI device. We've got two PCIe 1X slots. And this is a fairly ideal uh
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layout. Although maybe I'd prefer one more PCIe 1X slot accessible if you are
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running dual dual slot cards because you're going to be left with two PCI and
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one PCIe1X if you're running a Crossfire
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configuration. So let's have a look at the IO shield on the back of the board.
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Here we have dedicated PS2 ports for keyboard and mouse. Two USB 3.0 ports,
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optical audio out, six USB 2.0 ports.
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We've got ESATA, FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet, and 7.1 audio out. So, nothing
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particularly exceptional about the back of the board except Oh, look at this.
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ASUS is using screws, spring-mounted screws for the chipset cooler. So,
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that's uh that's a pretty nice touch. I do like to see screws used for mounting
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coolers versus push pins, but it's not always possible for economic reasons.
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Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS
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