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Intels DP67BG comes with a black PCB and blue and black expansion slots as well as aluminium cooling blocks which have been provided with a blue color. On one hand this board generates a harmonic and clean impression on the other it looks kind of empty and featureless. Furthermore Intel equipped this the DP67BG with two PCI Express slots for graphics cards. Between these two slots you'll find one PCI Express x1 slots and a standard PCI slot. In case you're planning to setup a SLI or CrossFire system there is plenty of space between the slots that the ventilation of the two cards will be good.

Intel equipped their DP67BG with a eight phas power design. This is enough to provide a CPU with a very stable current supply and even make overclockings possible. Looking at the capacitors themselves you'll find high quality caps around the CPU socket. The manufacturer therefore promises high stability as well as long term reliability and insensitivity against temperature shocks.

Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the Intel DP67BG. Officially supported are DDR3 - 1600 / 1333 / 1066 with up to 32 GByte capacity. Positioning of the DIMM-slots has been well thought which means they aren't too close to the CPU socket. Therefore there wont be too many incompatibilities between huge CPU coolers and big memory modules.

The current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via passive cooling blocks. The southbridge got a passive cooling block too which can become quite warm. The fact that the cooling blocks around the CPU socket aren't too big makes it comfortable to install a big aircooler. Unfortunately the maufacturing quality could have been better. The fixation of the cooling blocks isn't very good and it takes almost no force at all to move them to either left or right.