Asus P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard (B3) Review (QuadFireX @ 4.8ghz)

April 21, 2011 Announcements, Motherboard

For the mainstream gaming enthusiast audience, today's review production is both feature packed and attractively priced. The Asus P8P67 Palatial is a 16+2 phase DIGI+ VRM design which fully supports Intel's VRD12 specifications. There are three PCI Express x16 slots and a PLX PEX8608 chip to add 8 additional PCI Express lanes so bandwidth isn't impacted when USB 3 and SATA 6 GBps devices are used in Crossfire or SLI configurations.

KitGuru has been using the latest B3 revision now for many weeks within a real world test demote and today nosotros present our analysis.

Asus have a well earned reputation equally creating some of the world's finest motherboards.

For instance, we recently reviewed their Rampage III Black Edition, and it is perchance the finest X58 motherboard available on the market. The P8P67 Deluxe we are looking at today is a much more modestly priced product, but information technology is fully feature packed.

Specifications

CPU	Intel® Socket 1155 for Intel® 2^nd Generation Core™ i7 Processor/Core™ i5 Processor/Core™ i3 Processor/ Support Intel® 32nm CPU Supports Intel® Turbo Boost Engineering science ii.0 * The Intel® Turbo Boost Engineering science two.0 support depends on the CPU types. * Refer to www.asus.com for Intel CPU support list
Chipset	Intel® P67(B3) Limited Chipset
Memory	four x DIMM, Max. 32 GB, DDR3 2200(O.C.)/2133(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 Non-ECC,United nations-buffered Retentiveness Dual Channel memory architecture Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) According to Intel® SPEC, the Max. 32GB retention capacity can be supported with DIMMs of 8GB (or above). ASUS will update QVL once the DIMMs are bachelor on the market. * Hyper DIMM support is subject field to the physical characteristics of individual CPUs. Some hyper DIMMs merely support ane DIMM per aqueduct. Delight refer to Memory QVL for details. * Due to CPU behavior, DDR3 2200/2000/1800 MHz memory module will run at DDR3 2133/1866/1600 MHz frequency as default. * Please refer to www.asus.com or user transmission for Memory QVL.
Expansion Slots	two x PCIe 2.0 x16 (single at x16 or dual at x8/x8 mode) i x PCIe 2.0 x16 [Black] (at x4 fashion, uniform with PCIe x1 and x4 devices) 2 x PCIe ii.0 x1 2 ten PCI
Multi-GPU Back up	Supports NVIDIA® Quad-GPU SLI™ Technology Supports ATI® Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ Technology
Storage	Intel® P67(B3) Express Chipset ii xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (gray) 4 xSATA 3.0 Gb/s ports (blue) Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Support RAID 0,one,5,x Marvell® PCIe 9128 SATA 6Gb/due south controller with HyperDuo role* 2 xSATA half dozen.0 Gb/s ports (navy blueish) JMicron® JMB362 SATA controller* 2 xExternal SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports (ane 10 Power eSATA) * These SATA ports are for data hard drives only. ATAPI devices are not supported.
LAN	Dual Gigabit LAN controllers- 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) apparatus Intel® 82579 Gigabit LAN- Dual interconnect between the Integrated LAN controller and Physical Layer (PHY) Realtek® 8111E Gigabit LAN controller
Bluetooth	Bluetooth v2.one + EDR ASUS BT GO! Utility
Sound	Realtek® ALC889 viii-Aqueduct High Definition Audio CODEC – Absolute Pitch 192khz/24bit True BD Lossless Sound – BD Audio Layer Content Protection – DTS Surround Sensation UltraPC – Supports Jack-Detection, Multi-streaming and Front Panel Jack-Retasking – Coaxial / Optical S/PDIF out ports at back I/O
IEEE 1394	VIA® 6315N controller supports ii x 1394a port(south) (one at mid-lath; one at back panel)
USB	NEC USB iii.0 controllers – 4 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports (2 ports at mid-lath for forepart console back up, 2 ports at back console [blue]) Intel® P67(B3) Express Chipset – 12 x USB ii.0/1.ane ports (4 ports at mid-board, 8 ports at back panel)
ASUS Unique Features	ASUS Dual Intelligent Processors 2 with DIGI+ VRM: ASUS EPU – EPU, EPU switch ASUS TPU – Auto Tuning, TurboV, TPU switch ASUS Digital Ability Blueprint – Industry leading Digital 16+2 Phase Power Blueprint – ASUS DIGI+ VRM Utility ASUS BT Get! (Bluetooth) – Binder Sync, BT Transfer, Shot & Send, BT to Net, Music Histrion, Personal Director, BT Turbo Remote ASUS Exclusive Features – MemOK! – AI Suite 2 – AI Charger – Anti Surge – ASUS EFI BIOS EZ Fashion featuring friendly graphics user interface ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution – ASUS Fanless Design: Rut-pipe solution – ASUS Fan Xpert ASUS EZ DIY – ASUS Q-Shield – ASUS Q-Connector – ASUS O.C. Tuner – ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 – ASUS EZ Flash 2 ASUS Q-Design – ASUS Q-Code – ASUS Q-LED (CPU, DRAM, VGA, Boot Device LED) – ASUS Q-Slot – ASUS Q-DIMM
Overclocking Features	Precision Tweaker two – vCore: Adjustable CPU voltage at 0.005V increase – vCCIO: Adaptable I/O voltage at 0.00625V increment – vCCSA: 144-step system agent voltage control – vDRAM Bus: 160-pace Retention voltage command – vPCH: xc-step Chipset voltage control – vCPU_PLL: 160-step CPU & PCH PLL voltage control SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection) – BCLK/PEG frequency tuning from 80MHz up to 300MHz at 0.1MHz increase Overclocking Protection – ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)
Back Console I/O Ports	one x PS/ii Keyboard/Mouse Combo port 1 ten Bluetooth module ii ten External SATA (1 10 Ability eSATA) 1 10 IEEE 1394a two x LAN(RJ45) port(s) (1 x Intel® LAN) 2 x USB three.0/2.0 (bluish) 8 ten USB 2.0/1.one 2 x S/PDIF Out (one for Coaxial, 1 for Optical) 8 -Channel Audio I/O 1 x Clr CMOS switch
Internal I/O Connectors	1 x USB three.0/ii.0 connector(due south) supports additional ii USB ports (19-pivot) 2 x USB ii.0/1.i connector(s) support additional iv USB ports 1 x MemOK! Push button four 10 SATA 6.0Gb/s connectors (2 x gray; 2 x navy blue) four x SATA 3.0Gb/southward connectors (bluish) 1 x IEEE 1394a connector 1 x CPU Fan connector(s) (4-pin) 2 x Chassis Fan connector(s) (i ten 4-pin; 1 x 3-pin) 2 x Ability Fan connector(southward) (2 x three-pin) 1 x TPU switch ane x EPU switch 1 x Power-on switch one x Reset switch i x Due south/PDIF Out connector 24-pin EATX Power connector viii-pin EATX 12V Ability connector Front panel audio connector System Panel (Q-Connector)
BIOS	32 Mb Wink ROM , EFI AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS two.five, ACPI 2.0a, Multi-language BIOS, ASUS EZ Flash ii, ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
Manageability	WfM 2.0,DMI 2.0,WOL past PME,WOR by PME,PXE
Accessories	User'south manual 2 x SATA 3.0Gb/due south cables 4 x SATA vi.0Gb/southward cables two in 1 Q-connector ASUS Q-Shield 1 10 ASUS Front end Console USB 3.0 Box 1 x ASUS SLI bridge connector
Support Disc	Drivers Anti-virus software (OEM version) ASUS Update ASUS Utilities
Grade Factor	ATX Form Factor 12 inch 10 9.6 inch ( thirty.5 cm 10 24.iv cm )

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