ASUS P8P67

mastering3d · 1 Jul 2011 at 17:25

Hi all hope your all well ..

Ok down to the dirt

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Got this board along with i5 2500k .
All installed just fine and worked right away apart from bios not letting me use mouse but thats another story ..

I never knew this board was x8 x4 PCIe in CF mode the info is miss leading ,I think what i done wrong was read info on the pro not the stand one ,

But now i have run into a wall .

i have crossfire setup x2 HD5870 when i set in bios PCIeX16_2 slot at x4 on black Pci-e my sound card stops working which is Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium ,but if i go back to bios and turn off the PCIeX16_2 slot at x4 on black Pci-e the sound card then works again .. the sound card works on PCIe 2.0 x1_1 slot ,

So what i have here is i ever can have x2 HD5870 cards working and no sound card or one HD5870 and sound , Nice one asus and i all ways use them i think this is the last asus mobo ill be buying .

Help me please any one got any idea

Thanks ..

mastering3d · 1 Jul 2011 at 18:20

BUMP please help if you know a fix

MeatLoaf · 1 Jul 2011 at 19:50

Theres no fix, its not an asus problem its the same with all P67 boards as far as i know

mastering3d · 1 Jul 2011 at 20:21

Yes its getting RMA back its know good to me if i cant used 2x cards with my £160 pound sound card .

And there are no reviews that i can find that states when enabling x4 it will disable the PCIex1_1 and PCIex1_2 which is what my sound card works on . ie This card http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-060-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=.

Surveyor · 1 Jul 2011 at 20:47

It does state this on the Asus website.

*1: The PCIEX16_2 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX1_1 slot, PCIEX1_2 slot and USB3_34 connector. The PCIEX16_2 runs at x1 mode by default for system resource optimization.

You can't really blame Asus for your poor choice.

mastering3d · 1 Jul 2011 at 20:59

Surveyor said:
It does state this on the Asus website.

You can't really blame Asus for your poor choice.

Point taken ..Its not asus i picked wrong board but its still getting RMA back to where i got it from no matter what .It dont work with my setup so its no good to me ..

And under Distance Selling Regulations (DSR) law i have the right to do so ..

Plus who would think in this day and age that you can buy newer mobo that is not as good as one that i just sold which was Asus P5Q pro turbo ,which was 2 years old and could work at X8X8 and was far less in price I think around £90 pound from overclockers .

The P8P67 is over priced for what its offering ,