ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Review
Published by Michel90 on 06.01.11Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| At a first glance ASUS leaves a good impression with its P8P67 Deluxe. Unfortunately there still are some things which could have been done in a better way. Most importantly there are the cooling blocks which keep the current supply at adequate temperatures. They're simply too big which has the consequence that several high end aircoolers are not compatible with this board. On the other hand the board looks absolutely marvellous. We very much like the color design and to us it very appealing. | - Design | ||
| Layout | + | - | |
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Generally the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe's Layout is well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power- and reset-buttons. Also the debug display is very useful in case you should have issues with a component in your system or the board itself. Furthermore the placement of the PCI-Express x16 slots is also well thought an therefore nothing needs to be criticized at this point. Unfortunately as we already phrased out in the text above there are some issues if you focus on the CPU socket. The aluminium blocks which keep the current converters cool can cause compatibility problems with high end CPU coolers. Another thing is the DIMM slots. They are also very close to the socket. In this case memory which is equipped with big heatspreaders can also collide with big aircoolers. |
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Angled SATA ports
- Power/Reset-Button - Debug Display |
- Space around CPU socket - DIMM slots close to CPU socket | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| Judging this boards performance is a bit difficult because we only have two boards to compare with eachother. Generally we can say that the performance must be on a good level because the board didn't show any performance glitches. But tests of motherboards will show how good the P8P67 Deluxe really is. | |||
| Overclocking | + | - | |
| The ASUS P8P67 Deluxe is very comfortable regarding Overclocking. If you try to get some more performance via the BIOS this is quite simple. One reason for this is the very nice EFI-BIOS. Another is that the BIOS has also been very well structured and it's also forgiving if you chose settings which do not work. Furthermore ASUS delivers the P8P67 Deluxe with their TurboV software. If you use TurboV it automatically finds the highest stable frequency. The software first switches frequencies by increasing the multiplyer. After the system crashed the same procedure starts with the busclock. After another crash TurboV has determined the highest multiplyer and the highest busclock and of course the highest stable CPU clock. | - TurboV | - Very early BIOS, not perfect by now | |
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| Generally we can recommend the P8P67 Deluxe to any gamer or performance enthusiast out there. The board is absolutely stable and shows consistent performance figures. What's also a convincing factor that's the fact, that the delivery comes with a lot of accessories. | -
Gamer-PC - Overclocker-PC |
- Gamer-PC |
The ASUS P8P67 Deluxe can be bought at Brack to a price of CHF 269.- (est. EUR 192.-).
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Author: m.salathe@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch c.ney@ocaholic.ch
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