With the P67 Profess1onal Fatal1ty, ASRock has a high-end Sandy Bridge motherboard in its portfolio which especially targets the gaming market. Next to a very attractive design the board also features three PCI-Express x16 slots and ten SATA-Ports. Furthermore we're also very curious if this motherboard can be overclocked well. 
The P67 Profess1onal Fatal1ty belongs to the high end motherboards regarding ASRocks lineup for the Intels Sandy Bridge CPUs. Therefore we're really curious what they've done from the layout and design perspective.
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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, 2133(OC) / 2000 / 1866 / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 Non-ECC,Un-buffered |
| Multi-GPU |
2-/3-way ATI CrossFireX 2-way NVIDIA SLI |
| Slots | 3 x PCI-Express x16 (single @ x16,
dual @ x8, triple @ x8, x8, x4) 2 x PCI-Express x1 2 x PCI |
| Sound | Realtek ALC892, 7.1-Channel HD Audio Codec, S/PDIF Out |
| Storage | 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) 4 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (Marvell SE9120) 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD) 1 x eSATA 6.0 Gb/s |
| I/O internal / Connectors | 4 x SATA2 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 and Intel® Rapid Storage), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors 1 x ATA133 IDE connector (supports 2 x IDE devices) 1 x Floppy connector 1 x IR header 1 x COM port header 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header 1 x IEEE 1394 header 1 x Power LED header 1 x Power Button 1 x Reset Button 1 x CLR CMOS Button CPU/Chassis/Power FAN connector 24 pin ATX power connector 8 pin 12V power connector CD in header Front panel audio connector 4 x USB 2.0 headers (support 8 USB 2.0 ports) 1 x USB 3.0 header (supports 2 USB 3.0 ports) 1 x Debug with LED |
| I/O external | 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port 1 x Coaxial SPDIF Out Port 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port 3 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports 1 x Fatal1ty Mouse Port (USB 2.0) 1 x eSATA3 Connector 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 3.0 Ports 2 x RJ-45 LAN Ports with LED 1 x IEEE 1394 Port 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED HD Audio Jack: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Center / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone |
| Forfactor | ATX (30.5cm x 24.4cm) |
| BIOS | 32 Mb Flash ROM , EFI AMI BIOS |
- Manual
- Support CD
- 1 x Ultra ATA 66/100/133 IDE cable
- 1 x Floppy cable
- 6 x Serial ATA cable
- 2 x Serial ATA Power cable
- 1 x I/O Shield
- 1 x Front USB 3.0 Bracket
- 1 x Rear USB 3.0 Bracket
- 1 x SLI Bridge
Regarding the delivery you'll find everything you need. Unfortunately you'll only find a SLI Bridge but no CrossFire bridge.
Features
| Fatal1ty Mouse Port | The Fatal1ty Mouse Port allows gamer to set the polling rate directly at the USB port. Therefore it is possible to choose a polling rate which is between 125 to 1'000 Hz. |
| Fatal1ty F-Stream | Using this software one can monitor and overclock its new system. It is possible to check voltages and fan speeds. The fan speeds can also be manipulated as well as the voltages. Also the CPU frequency can be change by adjusting the multiplyer and base clock. |
| Dual LAN Teaming | Using this feature allows you to bundle the two built in LAN interfaces which results in higher network bandwidth. |
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Layout
The P67 Profess1onal Fatal1ty comes with a black and red painting and furthermore the writings which are framed with the aluminium silver are also eye catching. In this case the PCB comes in black as well as the northbridge, southbridge and capacitor coolers cover. Red are the PCI-Express x16 slots, two DIMM slots as well as six SATA ports. It seems like everything that symbolizes speed has been kept in red. Everything together ends up in a very nice and homogenous design. But somehow we get a feeling that ASRock has been inspired by the ASUS ROG boards.
ASRock provided their latest gaming board with a digital power design, whereas the CPU gets 16 phases and the memory gets two phases. Looking at the capacitors themselves you'll find high quality caps around the CPU socket which promise a long life span and rock solid stability.
Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the ASRock P67 Profess1onal Fatal1ty. Officially supported are DDR3-2133(OC) / 2000 / 1866 / 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 incompatibilities between huge CPU coolers and big memory modules.
Northbridge as well as the current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. The southbridge got a passive cooling block which has been integrated into the heatpipe loop of northbridge and VRM. The fact that the cooling blocks around the CPU socket aren't too big makes it comfortable to install a big aircooler. Furthermore there are additional holes around the CPU socket which allow you the installation of socket 775 coolers. We also noticed the very high manufacturing quality of the cooling blocks and their weight which is quite immense.
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Connectors and I/O
Totally ASRock equipped the P67 Profess1onal Fatal1ty with ten angled SATA ports which should be enough for any office PC, gaming system or even home file server. You'll also find practical onboard power-, reset- and CLR-CMOS-buttons. ASRock even thought of a debug display which is very useful if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system. Unfortunately if you install a video card into the last PCI-Express x16 slot it will cover all the connectors at the bottom edge of the board. This will turn most of them useless.
Totally you'll find six fan headers on the ASRock P67 Profess1onal Fatal1ty 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.
Looking at external connectors and buttons directly at the back-panel ASRock equipped the P67 Profess1onal Fatal1ty with a PS2 mouse/keyboard connector, four USB 3.0 and four 2.0 ports, a Firewire port, one eSATA port, two gigabit ethernet ports, a coaxial and optical audio connector, an analogue audio panel as well as a Clr CMOS button and the already mentioned Fatal1ty Mouse Port (USB 2.0).
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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 |
- ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional - ASUS P8H67-M Evo - ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe - Intel DH67BL - 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 P8H67-M Evo | 3'707 | 100.68 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 3'705 | 100.62 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 3'704 | 100.60 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 3'702 | 100.54 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 3'688 | 100.16 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 3'682 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 3'632 | 98.64 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 3'620 | 98.32 % |
| more is better | ||
Physic
| 3DMark 11 Physic Score | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 6'461 | 102.65 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 6'399 | 101.67 % |
| 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 P8H67-M Evo | 6'201 | 98.52 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 6'188 | 98.32 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 6'193 | 98.40 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 6'142 | 97.59 % |
| 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 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 16'107 | 103.61 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 16'069 | 103.36 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 15'924 | 102.43 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 15'835 | 101.86 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 15'776 | 101.48 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 15'710 | 101.05 % |
| 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 P8H67-M Evo | 17'101 | 99.73 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 17'043 | 99.39 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 17'017 | 99.24 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 16'979 | 99.02 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 16'873 | 98.40 % |
| 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 P8H67-I Deluxe | 68.00 | 101.12 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 67.83 | 100.86 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 67.77 | 100.77 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 67.67 | 100.62 % |
| 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 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 67.25 | 100.00 % |
| 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 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 48.81 | 100.12 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 48.80 | 100.10 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 48.80 | 100.10 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 48.78 | 100.06 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 48.75 | 100.00 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 48.71 | 99.92 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 48.70 | 99.90 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 48.69 | 99.88 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 48.43 | 99.34 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 47.77 | 97.99 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 47.52 | 97.48 % |
| more is better | ||
Multimedia
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - Integer | MPixels/sec | Percent |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 120.43 | 100.00 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 120.41 | 99.98 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 120.34 | 99.93 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 120.34 | 99.93 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 120.33 | 99.92 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 120.30 | 99.89 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 120.23 | 99.83 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 120.19 | 99.80 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 120.10 | 99.73 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
| 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 P8H67-M Evo | 71.20 | 99.99 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 71.20 | 99.99 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 71.19 | 99.97 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 71.18 | 99.96 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 71.17 | 99.94 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 71.16 | 99.93 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
| 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 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 6.85 | 108.73 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 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 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 5.78 | 91.75 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 5.74 | 91.11 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 5.70 | 90.48 % |
| 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 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 550 | 101.48 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 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 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 548 | 101.11 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 542 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 510 | 94.10 % |
| 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 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 21.13 | 109.60 % |
| 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 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 18.00 | 93.36 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 17.75 | 92.06 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 17.70 | 91.80 % |
| 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 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 21.14 | 109.76 % |
| 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 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 17.75 | 92.16 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 18.00 | 93.46 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 17.72 | 92.00 % |
| 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 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 63.5 | 97.84 % |
| 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 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 70.8 | 109.09 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 73.0 | 112.48 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 73.3 | 112.94 % |
| 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 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 101.60 | 106.13 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 101.50 | 106.03 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 96.00 | 100.28 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 96.64 | 100.95 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 96.00 | 100.28 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 95.73 | 100.00 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 95.62 | 99.89 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 95.00 | 99.24 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 95.31 | 99.56 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 94.45 | 98.66 % |
| 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 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 11.341 | 100.14 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 11.347 | 100.19 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 11.356 | 100.27 % |
| 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 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 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 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 607.120 | 97.53 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 609.992 | 97.99 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 615.530 | 98.89 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 623.877 | 98.88 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 620.803 | 99.73 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 620.928 | 99.75 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 621.552 | 99.85 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 621.942 | 99.91 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 622.473 | 100.00 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 623.002 | 100.08 % |
| 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 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 9.748 | 105.24 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 9.779 | 105.57 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 9.812 | 105.93 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 9.953 | 107.45 % |
| 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 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 84.64 | 97.67 % |
| Intel DP67BG | 83.27 | 96.09 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 81.77 | 94.36 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 81.22 | 93.72 % |
| 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 |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 174.8 | 107.04 % |
| 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 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 169.4 | 103.74 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 167.3 | 102.45 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 169.4 | 103.74 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 169.3 | 103.67 % |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 168.5 | 103.18 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 166.7 | 102.08 % |
| 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 | 568.30 | 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 % |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 550.85 | 96.68 % |
| ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 543.94 | 95.46 % |
| ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 543.77 | 95.43 % |
| Intel mATX DH67BL | 541.17 | 94.98 % |
| 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 |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 7.207 |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 7.241 |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 7.252 |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 7.282 |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 7.298 |
| MSI P67A-GD65 | 7.302 |
| ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 8.128 |
| less is better |
Conclusion
| In genral | + | - | |
| From a design point of view ASRock did a really convincing job with the P67 Profess1onal Fatal1ty. We definitely liked it and in combination with the ten onboard SATA ports for example it will not only attract gamers we think that also PC enthusiasts will like this motherboard. We also liked that there was plenty of space between the different PCI-Express x16 slots which lets graphics card in a multi GPU setup breathe appropriately. | - Design
- 10 SATA Ports - Price |
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| Layout | + | - | |
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Generally the P67 Profess1onal Fatal1ty's layout is well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power-, reset- and CLR-CMOS buttons. Also the debug display can become 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 well thought too and therefore nothing needs to be criticized at this point. The only thing we didn't like was that the if you install a video card in the last PCI-Express x16 slot, the connectors at the bottom edge of the board will be covered. What was also very practical is that ASRock provided this board with additional holes around the CPU socket that it became compatible with socket 775 coolers. |
- Angled SATA connectors
- Power/Reset/CLR-CMOS-Button onboard - LED Debug display - Holes for socket 775 coolers |
- Connectors at bottom edge of the board can be covered by a video card | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| In general this board performs really well. There is only one glitch in Wprime where it scores second to last. In all the other benchmarks the P67 Fatal1ty Professional was able to convince. You'll find the board in the top fourth of our comparison tables and for the Futuremark benchmarks it turned out to be very efficient. In three out of four Futuremark tests the P67 Fatal1ty scored first. Looking at 2D benchmarks reveals that the board is also competitive at this point. Furthermore there are the gaming benchmarks which leave us with mixed feelings. In Resident Evil 5 the the Fatal1ty score first but in the other two benchmarks the results were in the bottom third. | - Very good performance | - WPrime | |
| Overclocking / BIOS | + | - | |
| Focussing only at the settings overclocking definitely isn't something unknown for the P67 Fatal1ty Professional. Unfortunately it wasn't possible to overclock our CPU to more than 4'600 MHz. Using all the other P67 boards it's been possible to reach 5'200 MHz but with the Fatal1ty is absolutely wasn't possible to squeeze more than 4'600 MHz out of the CPU. Looking at the Fatal1tys EFI BIOS we find it well structured. You'll quickly find all the different settings and it also resets itself if you should set values that do not work. | - Well structured BIOS
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- Bad overclockability | |
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| If you want to build a gaming PC then the ASrock P67 Fatal1ty Professional will be a very good choice. Because of the fact that there are ten SATA ports this board could also be used for a storage server in your home network. The only thing we would recommend other boards concerns overclocking. At this point ASRock should take a closer look at the Fatal1ty because 4'600 MHz was way below what we were able to reach with all the other P67 motherboards. | - Gaming PC | - Office PC - Overclocking |
The ASRock P67 Fatal1ty Professional can be bought at Digitec to a price of CHF 244.- (est. EUR 174.-).
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Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch c.ney@ocaholic.ch