Asus P8P67-M-Pro is a micro-QUAD motherboard that uses Intel's new chip and supports P67 i5 and LGA1155 17: second generation processors, Core, codenamed "Sandy Bridge", the new region.
What's new with P67
As expected, most of the features provided by the motherboard chipset, but in this respect, it may be disappointed to find P67 is really very similar to the earlier P55. It is not difficult to trace this previous generation, which supports the LGA1156 Core i5/17 the first wave of processors in the DNA of the motherboard.
Perhaps the most obvious difference is that, although the chipset supports SATA HDD connectors, six-the same number in only four of these new Board has SATA 2.0. The other two to support the faster SATA 3.0 standard. Still, it is a small change.
Graphics support consists of a pair of PCI Express 2.0 slots, either forward to 16 lanes one or eight at the end of each video and buoyed the slots If you are using a CrossFireX. The third long PCI Express slot, it seems that it shall also include, but are not limited to 16 lanes, in reality, it is only delivered to four deliveries. Two images of the slots in between you will find the small PCIe x 1 slot.
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The old out.
ASUS has dispensed with most of the parents, the "old" devices have smaller micro-QUAD board support, so you can wave goodbye to the PCI slots on a regular basis, except if you buy a full-sized P8P67 Pro. Other older items that have been lost are the traditional IDE and floppy connectors and about time too, but Asus has made a curious decision to include COM and LPT titles.
I/O-Panel are two PS/2 connectors, six USB 2.0 ports, a USB 3.0 ports may have two, one, one FireWire, eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet and standard hardware. The add-in controller chip provided with two USB 3.0 ports, such as the Intel chipset does not yet support directly to this new standard.
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ASUS has added two more chips to assist in the performance. EPU motherboard Asus Power chip used in the quantity and the Pro version also has a TPU-Vahvisteinen or the performance of the central processing unit (CPU) to assist with the Ultimate Turbo.
Miniclip is one of the most significant additions, which Asus has done very well in the past, the Government can slip on the mainstream PC users. When you turn on your new computer, you are faced with the usual message "Press DEL to enter the testing regime '; However, this does not move you to the traditional BIOS screen. Instead, it presents the original UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) on the screen. This means that you can move the mouse and the arrow keys on the keyboard-much more convenient than the "old approach" in the Setup program.
Native UEFI also supports hard disks that are larger than 2.2TB capacity, which can seem like a huge amount, but you can buy a 2TB drive just £ 70. 3TB models are already on sale, Hitachi and WD.
If you have a traditional BIOS of your motherboard, you will need a third-party software such as (! internallinkstart = http://event.asus.com/mb/2010/Disk_Unlocker) Asus disk Unlocker (! internallinkend) make full use of the hard disk that is larger than 2.2TB.
Performance specifications
The initial Screen, the default is simple UEFI mode, where you can choose the power saver, Standard and choosing the optimum modes with a single click using the mouse, as well as the startup device. Native UEFI firmware is version 0404, which refers to the fact that Asus went through several versions of P8P67-M-Pro during development. Can we still think that more work is required. Once we have selected the best mode to be our Core i5-2500K was overclocked at 4.0 GHz maximum speed of Turbo, but it was unstable and crashed during the benchmarks.
We took our Cue to try this original UEFI, advanced, and found most of the usual Asus BIOS overclocking capabilities were correct and in any way, but did not have access to the core of the CPU voltage. Overclocking the Sandy Bridge processor is a relatively simple process if you unlock the ' K '-series models, so that you can simply add the Turbo Boost level. Mainstream processors are essentially adjustable, so 100 MHz clock speed, bus can be a base to raise only a small amount that leaves quite a lot of DDR3 memory speed as the only option.
We had the opportunity to raise successfully Turbo Boost-42 x gives the speed of 4.2 GHz, to bring our PC Mark Vantage score from 16,304, 19,168. When we went to bring 4.4 GHz, moreover, the Turbo speed, performance declined slightly 18,958. An ideal world we would have caused the CPU voltage 20V generates the kernel-1.1.25V, but (as mentioned above), this option is not available.
It is still a decent level of performance, if you consider that we have changed the one regulation with a view to increasing the level of the Turbo Boost. We were happy with the list of features and was generally impressed by Asus P8P67-M-Pro.
The most we liked what we saw with the Asus P8P67-M-Pro. Micro-QUAD Sandy Bridge motherboard do no want to quite a lot. However, there is a small fly in ointment and the bigger the potential problem.
The smallest first: we have seen grumble leviämisalueen, two USB ports instead of the old-fashioned PS/2 ports by space. The greater issue is that Intel has reported 6 series of chipsets SATA problem. This affects only the Sandy Bridge SATA 2.0 connectors walks-so if were planning to use only the drivers for SATA 3.0, you should be fine. If not, you will need to be placed in the Sandy Bridge plans on hold for an indefinite period of time.
£ 109.99 inc VAT
