With the DP67BG Intel presents its Sandy Bridge motherboard which has been designed for overclockers and gamers. The board therefore comes with decent overclocking features in the BIOS as well as attractive performance. Regarding features the list isn't very long but never the less there still is the backlit skull which one could also find on the previous board. 
On the following pages we will show you what the Intel DP67BG is capable of.
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Specifications / Delivery
| CPU | Intel Socket 1155 Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 |
| Chipset | Intel P67 |
| Memory | Dual Channel DDR3, 4 x DIMM, Max. 32 GB DDR3, 1600 / 1333 / 1066 Non-ECC, Un-buffered |
| Multi-GPU |
2-way ATI CrossFireX 2-way NVIDIA SLI 2-/3-wayCrossLinX (Lucid Hydralogix) |
| Slots | 2 x PCI-Express x16 (x16 in single
mode x8 in dual mode) 3 x PCI-Express x1 2 x PCI |
| Sound | Intel HD Audio, 7.1-Channel HD |
| Storage | 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (Intel PCH RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD) 1 x eSATA 3 Gb/s |
| I/O internal / Connectors | ATX 24-Pin power connector 8-pin ATX 12V power connector 4 x Fan connector Front panel audio connector Front panel connector 1 x chasis intrusion connector 3 x USB 2.0 connector 1 x IEEE1394 connector 1 x Clear CMOS jumper 1 x Power button 1 x Reset button |
| I/O external | 8 x USB 2.0 ports 2 x USB 3.0 ports 1 x BIOS button 1 x Optical SPDIF port 1 x IEEE1394 port 1 x eSATA ports 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack 1 x 5 in 1 audio jack |
Features
| Intel Extreme Tuning Utility | Using this tool one can comfortably overclock its Sandy Bridge based system. There are lots of settings overclockers can adjust. Therefore it is possible to manipulate voltages, multiplyer, BLCK as well as limitations. |
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Layout
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.
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Connectors and I/O
Totally Intel equipped the DP67BG with six angled SATA ports which should be enough for an office PC or gaming system. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons as well as a debug LED. A debug display is very useful if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system. It is quite common that the last PCI-Express x16 slot is also the expansion slot the closest to the bottom edge of the board. That has the consequence that the connectors at this place aren't accessible anymore. With the DP67BG, Intel took this into account and placed the last PCI-Express x16 slot as the third last expansion slot and therefore there wont be any complications.
Totally you'll find four fan headers on the Intel DP67BG which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or even a high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU and their also spread over the whole board which makes them easily accessible from any position in an enclosure. You'll also find a backlit skull in the bottom right corner of the board which you might know from this boards predecessor. When there is hard drive activity then the eyes will light up red.
Looking at external connectors and buttons directly at the back-panel Intel equipped the DP67BG with two USB 3.0/2.0 ports, one Firewire port, one eSATA port, eight SATA2.0/1.1, one gigabit ethernet ports, an optical audio connector and an analogue audio panel as well as a BIOS button.
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BIOS
Following you find BIOS-screens regarding basic configuration options as well as overclocking. Nearly standard these days is the possibility to save and load BIOS-Profiles.
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Test setup
Hardware |
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| Motherboard |
- Intel DP67BG - MSI P67A-GD65 - MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 - ASUS Sabertooth P67 - Gigabyte P67A-UD4 - ASUS Maximus IV Extreme - ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution - ASUS P8P67 Deluxe - Gigabyte P67A-UD7 |
| Processor | Intel Core i5 2500K |
| Memory | 2 GB Kingston PC3 16'000 9-9-9-27 |
| Graphic card | Asus 5850 |
| Hard disk | Samsung Spinpoint F1 320 GByte |
| Power supply | bequiet! Dark Power Pro 1000Watt |
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Futuremark
3DMark11
3DMark 11 is Futuremarks latest benchmark for the entire graphical subsystem. The benchmark uses DirectX 11 and it supports all recent features which can possibly generate high load on a GPU. Therefore you find tessellation, compute shader calculations, divers lighting effects and different depth of filed animations. Following we publish values regarding the performance preset of 3DMark 11.
Total
| 3DMark 11 Total | Percent | |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 3'714 | 100.87 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 3'709 | 100.73 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 3'709 | 100.73 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 3'709 | 100.73 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 3'707 | 100.68 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 3'705 | 100.62 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 3'688 | 100.16 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 3'682 | 100.00 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 3'620 | 98.32 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 3'632 | 98.64 % |
| more is better | ||
Physic
| 3DMark 11 Physic Score | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 6'461 | 102.65 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 6'300 | 100.10 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 6'294 | 100.00 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 6'274 | 99.68 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 6'271 | 99.73 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 6'269 | 99.60 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 6'268 | 99 59% |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 6'244 | 99.21 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 6'188 | 98.32 % |
| more is better | ||
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is able to squeeze nearly everything out of a recent system. Therefore the feature liste is also pretty long: DirectX10, FP16-HDR, motion blur, parallax occlusion mapping, GPU-physics simulation and different shader effects are being used to even make recent high-end systems struggle.
Total
| 3DMark Vantage Total | Percent | |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 16'153 | 103.90 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 15'924 | 102.43 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 15'835 | 101.86 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 15'776 | 101.48 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 15'760 | 101.38 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 15'757 | 101.36 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 15'749 | 101.31 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 15'605 | 100.38 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 15'546 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 15'157 | 97.50 % |
| more is better | ||
CPU
| 3DMark Vantage CPU | Percent | |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 17'379 | 101.35 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 17'354 | 101.21 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 17'186 | 100.23 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 17'179 | 100.19 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 17'164 | 100.10 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 17'147 | 100.00 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 17'121 | 99.85 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 17'118 | 99.83 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 17'017 | 99.24 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 16'979 | 99.02 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 1
SiSoft Sandra is a theoretical multi purpose benchmark suite which is able to show differences in CPU architectures. We split the tests with SiSoft Sandra into two parts. Therefore on this page you'll find Arithmetic-, Multimedia- and Cryptography-benchmarks.
Arithmetic Benchmark
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Drystone | GIPS | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 67.77 | 100.77 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 67.62 | 100.55 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 67.60 | 100.52 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 67.59 | 100.51 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 67.37 | 100.18 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 67.25 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 67.13 | 99.82 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 67.00 | 99.63 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 67.00 | 99.63 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Whetstone | GFLOPS | Percent |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 48.80 | 100.10 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 48.80 | 100.10 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 48.78 | 100.06 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 48.75 | 100.00 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 48.70 | 99.90 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 48.69 | 99.88 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 47.77 | 97.99 % |
| more is better | ||
Multimedia
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - Integer | MPixels/sec | Percent |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 120.43 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 120.34 | 99.93 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 120.34 | 99.93 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 120.33 | 99.92 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 120.23 | 99.83 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 120.19 | 99.80 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - floating point | MPixels/sec | Percent |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 71.21 | 100.00 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 71.18 | 99.96 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 71.17 | 99.94 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 71.16 | 99.93 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 70.87 | 99.52 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 70.57 | 99.10 % |
| more is better | ||
Crytography
| SiSoft Sandra - Crytography | GB/sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 7.38 | 117.14 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 7.30 | 115.87 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 7.00 | 111.11 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 6.26 | 99.37 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 6.25 | 99.21 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 6.00 | 95.24 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Crytography - SHA 256 | MB/sec | Percent |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 550 | 101.48 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 550 | 101.48 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 550 | 101.48 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 549 | 101.29 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 549 | 101.29 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 549 | 101.29 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 549 | 101.29 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 549 | 101.29 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 542 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 2
At this point we deliver the values regarding Memory Bandwidth, Memory Latency as well as Memory and Cache Access.
Memory bandwidth
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - Integer | GB/sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 22.68 | 117.63 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 22.40 | 116.18 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 21.46 | 111.31 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 19.36 | 100.41 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 19.30 | 100.10 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 19.28 | 100.00 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 19.22 | 99.69 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 19.16 | 99.38 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 18.84 | 97.72 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - floating point | GB/sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 22.69 | 117.81 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 22.40 | 116.30 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 21.47 | 111.47 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 19.36 | 100.52 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 19.35 | 100.47 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 19.26 | 100.00 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 19.22 | 99.79 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 19.20 | 99.69 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 18.83 | 97.77 % |
| more is better | ||
Memory latency
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory latency | ns | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 59.0 | 90.91 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 59.3 | 91.37 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 64.5 | 99.38 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 64.9 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 64.9 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 65.1 | 100.31 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 65.2 | 100.46 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 65.3 | 100.62 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 68.9 | 106.16 % |
| less is better | ||
Memory and cache access
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory and cache access | GB/sec | Percent |
| Intel DP67BG | 102.44 | 107.01 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 102.20 | 106.76 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 101.50 | 106.03 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 96.00 | 100.28 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 96.00 | 100.28 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 95.73 | 100.00 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 95.62 | 99.89 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 95.31 | 99.56 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 93.45 | 97.62% |
| more is better | ||
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Super Pi 1M - 32M / wPrime 32M
Meanwhile Super Pi even in its latest version has become pretty old. Never the less it is able to show scaling to the clock speed nicely.
Super Pi 1M
| Super Pi 1.5 XS - 1M | sec | Percent |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 11.325 | 100.00 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 11.341 | 100.14 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 11.356 | 100.27 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 11.357 | 100.28 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 11.372 | 100.42 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 11.373 | 100.42 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 11.404 | 100.70 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 11.435 | 100.97 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 11.466 | 101.25 % |
| less is better | ||
Super Pi 32M
| Super Pi 1.5 XS - 32M | sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 606.295 | 97.40 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 609.992 | 97.99 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 615.530 | 98.89 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 620.803 | 99.73 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 621.552 | 99.85 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 621.942 | 99.91 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 622.473 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 623.143 | 100.11 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 623.549 | 100.17 % |
| less is better | ||
wPrime 32M
wPrime is based on a multithreaded algorithm to calculate the square root to up to 32 billion digits. Therefore it is possible to put 100 percent load on every core or thread and to see differences between architectures.
| wPrime - 32M | sec | Percent |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 9.263 | 100.00 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 9.264 | 100.01 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 9.268 | 100.05 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 9.280 | 100.18 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 9.298 | 100.38 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 9.298 | 100.38 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 9.314 | 100.55 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 9.469 | 102.22 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 9.657 | 104.25 % |
| less is better | ||
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Games
Crysis 800 x 600, low details
Crysis is still one of the games which has very high system requirements. Therefore developer Crytek implemented Direct3D-10-API, High-Dynamic-Range-Rendering, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Soft Shadows, Motion Blur, Depth of Field as well as Soft Particles. We test Crysis by using DirectX9 to show CPU-sacaling especially which low resolutions. If we look at the high resolutions we are able to spot that the CPUs influence compared to the graphic card becomes much less important.
| Crysis DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 90.16 | 104.04 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 90.16 | 104.04 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 89.80 | 103.62 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 89.75 | 103.57 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 89.05 | 102.76 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 89.01 | 102.71 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 86.66 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 86.61 | 99.94 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 84.64 | 97.67 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 83.27 | 96.09 % |
| more is better | ||
Resident Evil 800 x 600, low details
Resident Evil uses nearly every modern rendering technology: HDR, Hemisphere Lighting, Soft Shadows, Soft Particles, Field- und Motion-Blur oder auch Alpha to Coverage and static Ambient Occlusion. Furthermore Resident Evil 5 has been optimized for multicore architectures and already comes DirectX11 ready. By using the DirectX9 benchmark we can again show CPU-scaling with low resolutions and the compared to the CPU overproportional influence of the graphics card at high resolutions.
| Resident Evil DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 174.5 | 106.86 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 172.6 | 105.70 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 171.6 | 105.08 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 169.5 | 103.80 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 169.4 | 103.74 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 169.3 | 103.67 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 168.5 | 103.18 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 166.5 | 101.96 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 163.3 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
Street Fighter 4 800 x 600, low details
Street Fighter 4 comes with an extra benchmark version which makes testing you system childrens play. At low resolutions the system requirements are pretty low and we can see CPU-scaling in the results. At high resolution the graphic card becomes more important and the CPUs clock speed has less influence on the fps.
| Street Fighter 4 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 573.97 | 100.73 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 569.79 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 569.21 | 99.90 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 568.3 | 99.74 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 568.25 | 99.73 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 568.00 | 99.69 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 567.88 | 99.66 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 563.66 | 98.92 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 538.99 | 94.59 % |
| more is better | ||
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Overclocking
| CPU-z | MHz | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 4'600 | 88.46 % |
| more is better | ||
| Super Pi 1M | sec |
| Intel DP67BG | 7.207 sec |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 7.207 sec |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 7.241 sec |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 7.252 sec |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 7.282 sec |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 7.298 sec |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 7.302 sec |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 8.128 sec |
| less is better |
Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| With the DP67BG Intel has a motherboard in its portfolio which leaves us with mixed feelings. The performance are either very good or very bad depending on the different benchmarks of course. If we look at the deisgn as well as layout we see that this board absolutely isn't something special. The skull in the bottom right corner is a nice idea but generally the boards design lacks attention to detail. | |||
| Layout | + | - | |
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Generally the Intel DP67BGs layout is well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power/reset-buttons and the debug LED. Furthermore the placement of the PCI-Express x16 slots is well thought too and therefore nothing needs to be criticized at this point. In fact we also liked that between the PCI Express x16 slots there are two PCI Express x1 slots which means that if you want to have to GPUs powering your games they'll get plenty of air and stay cool. Unfortunately the cooling blocks, covering current converters as well as southbridge leave quite a cheap impression and it would have been very nice to see cooling elements which are of a higher manufacturing quality. |
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Angled
SATA connectors
- Power/Reset-Button onboard - Connectors at the bottom edge not hidde by GPU |
- Looks cheap | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| If we take the average of all the values we received in out benchmark parcours then this board would rank in the center span of our comparison tables. As soon as we take a closer look at the results, we see that the performance is either top or flop. Furthermore there is also no possibility to say that this board scores well in 2D but not in 3D. Therefore the values are too inconsistens. We recommend a closer look at the results in this case. | - Performance either top or flop | ||
| Overclocking | + | - | |
| For the DP67BG overclocking isn't something unknown. If you've been able to find the suitable settings it reacts frogiving even if you purposely choose settings that will not work. If you consider buying this motherboard for extreme overclocking we have to tell you that there really are better boards out there on the market. A bit annoying was the BIOS. The quite unusual structure takes a bit of time until you get used to. | -
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- confusing BIOS - Takes long to get used to | |
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| If you should be thinking about setting up a very well performing office PC or an entry level gaming rig, than the Intel DP67BG will be a good choice. | -
Gamer-PC - Office-PC |
- Enthusiasts - High-End-Gamer |
The Intel DP67BG can be bought at PCP.ch to a price of CHF 198.- (est. EUR 141.-).
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Author: m.buechel Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch c.ney@ocaholic.ch