Asus P8P67 Pro vs GB UD4 vs Asus Sabertooth P67

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Since these are the three I've narrowed my choices down to, does anyone know just which of thse have the best features and offer the best reliability?

The P8P67 Pro is the cheapest and has probably the best level of features. Plus it has a USB 3 extention that'll can be used at the back of the case.

The Gigabyte is a good and reliable brand that has already kept my current desktop running for 6 years.

The Sabertooths looks awesome but costs the most and it more or less has the same features bar a coaxail (what ever that is) but has 2 more USB ports.

Plus, does anyone know that a "TUF Certification card" is?

But to me the P8P67 Pro is the leader atm. Anyone else deciding among the same motherboards?
 
Look at the "what board are you choosing" thread. Last i checked 100 of the 160 people who voted were going for Asus.

I went for the P8P67 Pro as I didn't need what the Deluxe offered. Giga dont have the new bios which just seems backwards.

no one will know about reliability for weeks yet and as for actual performance, they all seem to overclock around the same and perform equally. It's more about the features it seems.
 
Ah, you beat me to it. I was wondering the same about the Asus P67Pro vs Gigabyte P67A-UD4 since they are within the same price range.

I think the ud4 doesnt have the EFI bios (yet) ?
 
No but it should be coming later. If you look at the Asus EFI it doesn't look much cop, boots at same speed as normal BIOS and looks a bit buggy in reviews during boot up. Granted it probably will get better with time. Gigabyte is most likely just holding out for now... The BIOS chips will support EFI size wise.

I'm going to pick up the Gigabyte as I want to support the honest company with decent support, Ultra Durable 3, thick copper PCB traces and the best motherboard components around :).

It might not have built in bluetooth but that's the only downside I see... I guess it doesn't matter anyway, who wants to OC your PC using your phone lol...
 
LaurenceGough said:
No but it should be coming later. If you look at the Asus EFI it doesn't look much cop, boots at same speed as normal BIOS and looks a bit buggy in reviews during boot up. Granted it probably will get better with time. Gigabyte is most likely just holding out for now... The BIOS chips will support EFI size wise.

I'm going to pick up the Gigabyte as I want to support the honest company with decent support, Ultra Durable 3, thick copper PCB traces and the best motherboard components around :).

It might not have built in bluetooth but that's the only downside I see... I guess it doesn't matter anyway, who wants to OC your PC using your phone lol...
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Yeah, I guess Gigabyte could update it to EFI later on. But I presume because motherboards support EFI than means it is also UEFI for fast boot times?

I probably will go gigabyte as I know they are reliable and I really don't want any motherboard problems for the sake of beta testing a new bios.
 
QuackPot said:
Yeah, I guess Gigabyte could update it to EFI later on. But I presume because motherboards support EFI than means it is also UEFI for fast boot times?

I probably will go gigabyte as I know they are reliable and I really don't want any motherboard problems for the sake of beta testing a new bios.
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I don't know but they don't support UEFI currently as you say mate, hence the slow boot times.


Hopefully Gigabyte will launch UEFI and not EFI like Asus's current release :).

Both the GA-P67A-UD3P and UD4 look nice, kinda split between them :(.
 
maximusmi2 said:
The boot time will probably be improved with updates. After all they have only been out a couple of days!
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And I'm sure they have been designing and testing for months, well at least I hope :).


They don't advertise it as being a faster boot either, I guess it's just for people who want to have a mouse in the times which they need to use the BIOS.

To be honest navigating around Windows is faster using the keyboard in most cases anyhow.
 
LaurenceGough said:

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Fair play, i stopped watchnig that after 20 seconds originally because the guys voice and camera position annoyed me lol.

Currently the latest Bios on the P8P67 Pro (my board) is Beta 1053 released on the 5th. There was another one on the 5th and then another on the 29th. At least it looks like they are working on it.
 
nightmare99 said:
If you watch that the guy syays the newer BIOS have a mnuch faster posts time as the BIOS he was using had some bugs where it took ages to post but overclocked better than the newer ones.
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Yeah but who wants one or the other :p I would rather just wait a little bit longer myself but then it's the same speed as a normal BIOS.
 
lol my bios doesn't flash, and the UEFI is really nice even a noob can pick pick a simple 1 click overclock and get 4.5 standard! Works perfectly and is rock solid..I'd recommend the ASUS..and there are plenty of others here with the same board with supreme clock speeds.
 
Well my Gigabyte is really nice, wouldn't trade it for an Asus any day! BIOS just works simple as, and has very handy options such as saving CMOS to BIOS, HDD or USB, dual BIOS and easy flashes from USB/HDD just to name a few of the most handy ones. And with UD3, no contest! :)

I'm currently at 4.5GHz on my 2500k but can run up to 5GHz if I wanted!
 
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