Current stability of p67 question.

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Ok, I'm looking to upgrade and was wanting some info about p67 and z68

I'm mainly wanting a board that is really stable. I remember reading problems about the p6p87 boards. What is the situation with them now?

I've always gone with Asus boards in the past but out of the p67 boards at the moment the P67AUD4 seems like the most suitable for me.

I do plan on overclocking but nothing crazy. Only ever going to use one gpu.

I waited for the z68 boards to come out but I don't plan on using any of the new features. Are they more stable?

I've lost my place on my mental list of questions, anyway! tell me everything :D

Thanks.
 
Being stable has nothing to do with P67 or Z68 it's how the manufacturers have put together their boards.

The only real issues with P67 boards were those made by Asus where a number of people seemed to have had problems. MSI and Gigabyte seem to have had very few problems and I can personally recommend MSI as I have 2 of these which have have been faultless:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-165-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

Who knows if the Asus Z68 boards will be better than their P67 boards. They've only been out for 5 minutes.

If your looking for a stable board which overclocks well, and don't need the Z68 features, then I can recommend the MSI linked above.
 
well i can say my replacement p8p67 mobo is in a word, pants.

my B2 board ran rock stable -- aside from it taking multiple attempts to boot, at 4.6ghz.

my B3 board, with everything else being the same, is unstalbe at 4.2 ghz.

i am actually going to go back to stock and see if it is stable then, if not then it will be going back. so far my experience with sandybridge has been a poor one, which is a shame as the chip itsself seems really good.
 
bigmike20vt said:
well i can say my replacement p8p67 mobo is in a word, pants.

my B2 board ran rock stable -- aside from it taking multiple attempts to boot, at 4.6ghz.

my B3 board, with everything else being the same, is unstalbe at 4.2 ghz.

i am actually going to go back to stock and see if it is stable then, if not then it will be going back. so far my experience with sandybridge has been a poor one, which is a shame as the chip itsself seems really good.
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I think this is more of an experience with Asus than Sandybridge.

99% of MSI and Gigabyte users seem to have no problems.
 
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P67A-UD4-B3 here. Had a problem with a restart loop but the latest bios seems to have it sorted..
 
Gigabyte P67A boards for the win. We have had a couple of different ones in the house as well as other brands. The Giga boards have all been keepers. Then the MSI the rest were moved on.

Specifically the question about Z68.

The only upside of the Z68 and the Gigabyte board (mine is on route with the courier as I type) is the new touch screen Windows bios. So my vote goes to the Z68-UD4-B3 motherboard.
 
Posted this in CPU but pasted here for your viewing also.

I'm on an ASUS P8P67 (B3 REV3.0) and was expecting it to be a nightmare. I was going to back out at the last second and swap to something else but my order got shipped so I thought what the hell. It's been nothing but perfect thus far. Put it onto latest BIOS before doing ANYTHING, set it up, whacked the i7 in it to 4.3 and have slowly been ramping it up since.

Had to apply a fix to prevent my SSD freezing in Windows (Which is an Intel issue not an ASUS one) but other than that it's perfect. The software is nice, it's well laid out and the EFI BIOS is an absolute dream to work with.

For the price I got it on This Week Only I could not be happier with it. I am not saying anyone else with issues is talking crap, it's quite possible it's very picky about compatible hardware and the PSU running it.

For reference I put XMS3 1600MHz in it which is undervolted to 1.5V at specification 9-9-9-24 timings and I even have it at 1T without issue. An old Corsair HX520 is powering it and it's on an i7 2600K.
 
I think the reason you see more complaints about these boards is because the majority of people went for them.
Mines been absolutly fine b1 and b3 rev
 
Aside from the Asus/MSI/Gigabyte issue, if you don't need Z68 features, then P67 has been "soak-tested" whereas Z68 is too new. GD65's and UD4's seem to be very stable for OCing and are good value. P67 boards are getting cheaper, and there are bargains to be had - I've seen P67-UD3P's for £106, £25 less than a month ago, so keep a look out for special offers and Today Only deals.
 
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