February 3, 2012

ASUS P8P67 Pro Intel P67 LGA1155 Motherboard Review

The ASUS P8P67 Pro motherboard is a pretty standard platform with a good feature set, ideal for mainstream overclockers and gamers. Along with the dual PCI Express x16 slots for x8/x8 SLI/Crossfire, ASUS include SATA III, USB 3.0, a powered eSATA port for external storage devices, integrated Bluetooth v2.1 ( particularly unique and handy for smart phone interfacing ), 8-channel audio with DTS Surround and a whack of proprietory ASUS stuff that's guaranteed to glaze your eyes over. The ASUS P8P67 Pro motherboard is equipped with four DDR3 memory slots that accommodate up to 32GB of dual channel DDR3-1066/1333/1600/1866/2133/2200 memory. Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) RAM is supported as you would expect.
The ASUS P8P67 Pro system draws 113W while idle at the desktop. Under 100% CPU load conditions with Prime95, total system power draw jumps to 157W. 3DMark06 pushes power draw to a peak of 272W with a Geforce GTX470 installed. The ASUS P8P67 Pro motherboard is a good platform to build a nice gaming or run-of-the-mill computer system with. Regardless of the new advances in chipsets since the emergence of the Intel P67 chipset, it has to be said that the P67 still offers a lot of value. Considering that value, a board like the P8P67 Pro proves itself to be an economical way of assembling an Intel LGA1155 PC that competes with Intel Z68 platforms in the benchmarks. The reason is simple, both chipsets are essentially the same core logic. Source

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