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Is that you, Tweakboy ?

Just kidding ..

I had the ASUS P8P67 PRO for a while, and it was a great board.
 
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I built a couple of machines that use this board. One curiosity (perhaps of the chipset) is that on Win7, if you have a RAID1 array and the hard disks go to sleep as per the standard Windows power-saving settings, Windows stops responding and doesn't recover.
 
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I am thinking most of them either went to Z68 or are jumping on Z77 right now. I purchased a P8P67 and it was DOA so I sent it back and bought a Biostar. Too many issues with the p8p67 on killing CPUs scared me away.
 
Rvenger said:
I am thinking most of them either went to Z68 or are jumping on Z77 right now. I purchased a P8P67 and it was DOA so I sent it back and bought a Biostar. Too many issues with the p8p67 on killing CPUs scared me away.
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Yes, but I guess there are still alot of people owning P67 mobos. Also, my guess is that alot of people have the Asus P8P67 PRO.
 
The_Golden_Man said:
I've looked a little, and It does not seem to be common with owners clubs in the anandtech forums..
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True, but you never know. At least, Google would have indexed your thread and people would come and join up, eventually. Every big journey starts with a single step :biggrin:
 
Just got my new computer up and running this weekend on an Asus P8P67 Deluxe. My first new motherboard in 5 years. I'm impressed with the BIOS GUI (so much nicer than those old blue screens that BIOS have been since the beginning of time), and it seems like the Asus Tweak UI auto-overclocking feature will actually be useful (since I want to take advantage of the CPU lowering the v-core when not in use without fiddling with a whole bunch of offset settings). The BIOS defaults to AHCI mode for SATA drives, which is great as enthusiasts who buy boards like this are probably also running SSD boot drives. I also like that the CPU is given sufficient space on the board to allow room for enthusiast heatsinks without blocking any DIMM slots (the Zalman 9900 I went with is enormous, but there's still plenty of access for any RAM I would want). And, bonus, the Mobo install CD includes an installation for Google Chrome which I was going to install anyway.

I don't like that the digital post code readout on the motherboard is lit up in red when everything else in my system (including other lights on the motherboard) are blue LEDs; it creates a bizarre contrast, and it seems to reflect off the video card more than the other lights. But the computer is on the floor and I rarely have to stare at the light show, so that's a pretty minor gripe. I'll probably find some other things to complain about as I finish setting everything up and spend some quality time exploring the board's features, but so far I've been very impressed.
 
I own the Deluxe model and LOVE it!!! It even supports 22nm IB CPUS!!!! 🙂

No PCI-e 3.0 but for now not a big deal, unless you are running SLI/XFire or doing series GPGPU work....

Not one issue with it and they are still updating the BIOS for it, not like I needed a update but nice to see support so late in life on the MB.

Would recommend it to anyone!

WISH I HAD 6 Intel SATA3.0 ports!! but who doesn't
 
I hate the Pro, its got the worst BIOs on the planet:
1) If you set it on defaults it'll overclock the CPU to 4.3 Ghz at 1.45V! Who's great idea was that exactly?!
2) When you change the overclock other settings will be changed automatically. The key one seems to be the RAM settings, which it insists on putting on a setting that appears to work, but actually crashes about twice a day. Takes a while before I notice that one.
3) I am still not sure if running my PCI-E in 3.0 mode is crashing it or not due to the above 2 but its a constant worry.
4) It overheated and crashed at stock. I had to watercool the motherboard.

In the last 5 years this has been the most unstable motherboard I have had. Its not that its inheriently a bad board, its just the auto overclocking bios that change settings behind your back means you have to check everything on any change. Its the worst design I have ever seen. Anandtech called them out on it and Asus seem convinced its a good idea. Its not, it's a dreadful idea and its causing me tonnes of grief. I've had this board since the beginning of December and I still haven't gotten it stable, not even at stock!
 
BrightCandle said:
I hate the Pro, its got the worst BIOs on the planet:
1) If you set it on defaults it'll overclock the CPU to 4.3 Ghz at 1.45V! Who's great idea was that exactly?!
2) When you change the overclock other settings will be changed automatically. The key one seems to be the RAM settings, which it insists on putting on a setting that appears to work, but actually crashes about twice a day. Takes a while before I notice that one.
3) I am still not sure if running my PCI-E in 3.0 mode is crashing it or not due to the above 2 but its a constant worry.
4) It overheated and crashed at stock. I had to watercool the motherboard.

In the last 5 years this has been the most unstable motherboard I have had. Its not that its inheriently a bad board, its just the auto overclocking bios that change settings behind your back means you have to check everything on any change. Its the worst design I have ever seen. Anandtech called them out on it and Asus seem convinced its a good idea. Its not, it's a dreadful idea and its causing me tonnes of grief. I've had this board since the beginning of December and I still haven't gotten it stable, not even at stock!
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BrightCandle said:
I hate the Pro, its got the worst BIOs on the planet:
1) If you set it on defaults it'll overclock the CPU to 4.3 Ghz at 1.45V! Who's great idea was that exactly?!
2) When you change the overclock other settings will be changed automatically. The key one seems to be the RAM settings, which it insists on putting on a setting that appears to work, but actually crashes about twice a day. Takes a while before I notice that one.
3) I am still not sure if running my PCI-E in 3.0 mode is crashing it or not due to the above 2 but its a constant worry.
4) It overheated and crashed at stock. I had to watercool the motherboard.

In the last 5 years this has been the most unstable motherboard I have had. Its not that its inheriently a bad board, its just the auto overclocking bios that change settings behind your back means you have to check everything on any change. Its the worst design I have ever seen. Anandtech called them out on it and Asus seem convinced its a good idea. Its not, it's a dreadful idea and its causing me tonnes of grief. I've had this board since the beginning of December and I still haven't gotten it stable, not even at stock!
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Not to mention the CPUs it has killed from LLC putting over 2v to the CPU. I'd have to say though, the P8Z68-V/Gen 3 was a good stable board. They worked the kinks out of it pretty well.
 
The latest bios has reintroduced me to my graphics input lag and stuttering problems within Windows. I am unable to solve it in the same way as before (disabling all power saving). All else seeming to be equal I think its the motherboard causing a problem with the 7970's as the bios version is the only thing I changed.

Asus you suck.
 
BrightCandle said:
The latest bios has reintroduced me to my graphics input lag and stuttering problems within Windows. I am unable to solve it in the same way as before (disabling all power saving). All else seeming to be equal I think its the motherboard causing a problem with the 7970's as the bios version is the only thing I changed.

Asus you suck.
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What mobo? :hmm:
 
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