Gigabyte cancels P67 programme – moves 100% to Z68
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one problem going around and one I have experienced with the P67 Board is its ability to recover from a bad OC. I don't know if it dies and or if it is just a bricked bios but instead of recovering itself it just goes into an infinite loop of failed boots with no beeps and no display. For most taking out cmos battery etc etc recovers it but for some they are not so lucky.
For me all I did was set all the voltages manually to stock so no auto's raised the vcore to 2.6 and raised the multiplier to 4ghz then hit save settings so it shuts down and then proceeds to restart except I am greeted by a blank screen and constant power ups for 10 or so seconds then shutting down in an infinite loop.
So I find it rather irritating that gigabyte is not going to fix the issue. Well at the moment im quite happy with stock performance so I will be sticking by the board for quite a while but if I need to overclock properly in future without silly issues I might look into the new boards if they don't have the same problem.
For me all I did was set all the voltages manually to stock so no auto's raised the vcore to 2.6 and raised the multiplier to 4ghz then hit save settings so it shuts down and then proceeds to restart except I am greeted by a blank screen and constant power ups for 10 or so seconds then shutting down in an infinite loop.
So I find it rather irritating that gigabyte is not going to fix the issue. Well at the moment im quite happy with stock performance so I will be sticking by the board for quite a while but if I need to overclock properly in future without silly issues I might look into the new boards if they don't have the same problem.
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I expect it is much more likely that Z68 is cheaper than P67 for the board manufacturers. Remember that Z68 loses features as well as gains them over P67.
Indeed. As usual KitGuru are providing less than accurate information. It is certainally not where I go for my reliable tech info/news. This isn't the first time they've pulled this sort of stunt in the quest for traffic.
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which features are lost?
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What advantages does UEFI offer? Less chance of corrupting your CMOS?
The share of P67-series motherboards will begin dropping once the Z68 is launched and the segment will gradually be phased out, with the P-series not being included in Intel's next generation chipsets.
I wonder if this is true info from Monica Chen, Taipei
I wonder if this is true info from Monica Chen, Taipei
just to clarify Z68 is more expensive than P67 and has a number of extra features to the P67. I will hopefully post up more information about this later on if I have time 
However, Any Z68 boards without graphics output will only have the SSD Caching feature available. Features such as Quicksync will not be fully supported.
However, Any Z68 boards without graphics output will only have the SSD Caching feature available. Features such as Quicksync will not be fully supported.
just to clarify Z68 is more expensive than P67 and has a number of extra features to the P67. I will hopefully post up more information about this later on if I have time
However, Any Z68 boards without graphics output will only have the SSD Caching feature available. Features such as Quicksync will not be fully supported.
It will be great to know which boards has both features ScottiB as soon as you know so we can order the correct board. Then i can sell my p67
One thing we also learn from that is the price difference is going to be very little according to what it says.
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Yes, someone in XtremeSystems mentioned the same thing, very little means negligible to me.
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If the rumours are true USB 3.0, which will mean using a seperate chip will be required. It does however gain a proper built in Intel NIC which should offer better performance than the Realtek rubbish.
Again these are rumours mind.
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Aha, interesting.
So is USB 3.0 part of P67? I thought it was supplied by separate chips too.
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Ah yes good point what am I thinking lol. P67 uses seperate chips as well. 
I think they were hoping for proper Intel USB3.0 but that won't be around for a while.
I think they were hoping for proper Intel USB3.0 but that won't be around for a while.
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Ah yes good point what am I thinking lol. P67 uses seperate chips as well.
I think they were hoping for proper Intel USB3.0 but that won't be around for a while.
Is that because of ThunderBolt technology? I suppose that will come with Ivy.
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isn't the z68 version of the ud7 supposed to retail at around £350? It's not worth the change for me for just the ability to use quick sync, I wont use the SSD caching because I have large enough SSD's in the first place. beings I only paid £255 for my ud7 a few months ago I will not be investing unless there is some serious performance boosts.
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Nope, it will be around the same price.
As are long time asus boards (and vga's) owner,i am officially going to jump ship to MSI.
One of the reasons very simple - customer care,and i like how MSI representative - ScottiB - helping this forum members
Another reason quite personal - because of the faulty asus P8p67 pro i lost job (cant finish in time)
Looking forward to new MSI Z68 GD80 board (hope it wont cost to much
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One of the reasons very simple - customer care,and i like how MSI representative - ScottiB - helping this forum members
Another reason quite personal - because of the faulty asus P8p67 pro i lost job (cant finish in time)
Looking forward to new MSI Z68 GD80 board (hope it wont cost to much
)