Asus p8p67 or gigabyte h67?

dan1903 · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:17

hi guys

looking around the forums there seem to be lots of people having trouble with asus atx p67 boards, and their customer service doesn't seem to be highly rated either. Is the m-atx version plagued by the same problems? I'm thinking I would perhaps be better off buying an m-atx h67 board from gigabyte to tide me over until EVGA release their m-atx p67 boards. Asus currently are the only company selling p67 micro atx boards... I'm upgrading from a centrino laptop, so I don't think I would miss the overclocking to begin with, its going to be a massive jump in performance anyway.

would running an i5 2500k at stock run significantly slower than a medium overclock say 4.2ghz? Would I see much lower frame rates at stock if I paired it with a 560ti?

I know at the end of the day this would see me spending more money, as I'd be buying 2 motherboards, but I've never built a PC before so I really don't want to be buying unreliable parts that will fail and put me in a bad situation with RMA etc.

Am I being crazy?

justintime2001 · 1 Apr 2011 at 03:50

Gigabyte, like you say lots of problems with ASUS at the moment.

hybrid572 · 1 Apr 2011 at 09:12

Definitely get a P67 board, you'd be wasting your money not overclocking that chip. Do you really have to have mATX?

Also, Asus have a new 5-day RMA policy, and bear in mind that there are far more happy customers than unhappy ones- you just only see the unhappy ones complaining. They'd pull their stock if there was a serious failure rate.

Antilo · 1 Apr 2011 at 15:16

On an Asus P8P67 PRO and its great, overclocks well and a good layout

Baldbloke · 1 Apr 2011 at 17:43

hybrid572 said:
Definitely get a P67 board, you'd be wasting your money not overclocking that chip. Do you really have to have mATX?

Also, Asus have a new 5-day RMA policy, and bear in mind that there are far more happy customers than unhappy ones- you just only see the unhappy ones complaining. They'd pull their stock if there was a serious failure rate.

There was a 2 year old thread revived recently on Ocuk about that but it seems Asus never managed to implement this 5 day rma policy in practice. . Or is this a new rma thing for Asus?