Technical Details
- Intel P67 chipset supporting the 2nd Generation LGA 1155 Intel Core i7/Core i5/Core i3 Processors
- With AMD CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI support
- SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 support
- Dual Gb LAN featuring the latest Intel and Realtek Chipsets
- EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) BIOS
Product Description
ASUS P8P67 LGA 1155 SATA 6Gbps USB 3.0 Supported Intel P67 ATX DDR3 2400 Motherboards P8P67 PRO; REV 3.1
Customer Reviews
By Igor V. Zavoychinskiy
I bought with motherboard to solve one main issue: my two GTX295 were not running at full capabilities on old P5N mobo. After reading of many articles and studying hardware I decided to upgrade to 2nd generation i5. This mobo claims that it's quad SLI compatible (each GTX295 has two GPUs on-board) so, I ordered it. The mobo is very good, manufacturing quality is very high, documentation and wiring are all OK. But the problem is: quad SLI is unstable on it. I can ran any of my video cards in a single mode (actually, double SLI) but when I set both cards video driver just crash on init in any game. I use Corsair Professional 1200W PSU and EVGA video cards so, it's unlikely that hardware is bad. I also tried three versions of NVIDIA drivers including the latest one. Since I was running quad SLI on my old machine with no issues (except under loading of GPUs) I tend to blame the mobo.
Though, PCIe x16 sockets have good layout. Most of the manufacturers place them too close and if you use two modern video cards you get a cooling problem since single card takes two expansion slots. Here x16 connectors has a gap of 2 slots which give you 1 slot of space between the cards.
Other issues:
- Win7 cannot install drivers for most motherboard devices. HDD and video get detected with no problems but network, raid and other staff need supplied CD.
- Even when all drivers have been installed one device still doesn't work: PCI-controller Simple Communications. I have no idea what it is. Windows doesn't have idea too.
- Mobo has built-in Bluetooth. Nice to have but not very useful. I'd prefer WiFi module or extra USB 3.0 port.
Note for those who own 2-cores video cards. In order to make use of both cores you *must* activate SLI in drivers. If you don't do that your video will be running on a single GPU. There are people who use default settings and claim bad performance but it's just a wrong setting.
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