So it's official the Asus P8P67 range - Avoid?

hernaldo

hernaldo

hernaldo

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Hi there, I own one unfortunately on recommendation from a few threads here a while ago. Now here we are a month or so later and the concensus seems to be.

"These boards stink, don't buy them".

Would that be fair to say? I'm asking purely because I've been offered a full refund or a B3 board swap for my B2.

Would appreciate some views from owners, I know it's the nature of the game to have issues with all motherboards along the line from the point of buying to achieving a decent overclock followed by stability. But in this case I'd say the P8P67 range is amongst the crappiest motherboard range in terms of fiddling around for no extra pay off in the last few years?

My issues...

1. BSODs.
2. Double\Tripple POSTs most times at boot up.
3. Ridiculous convoluted BIOS flashing procedure.
4. Inexplicable "overclocking failed" at boot up occassionally.

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You certainly seem to see more people with problems on the Asus boards here. Personally i would get the refund and get a Gigabyte.
 
Look I own a Gigabyte UD7 and I have really enjoyed my motherboard and had a very trouble free time with it. And yes there have been issues reported by user with the new P67 chipset, or if you prefer the name of the CPU SandyBridge based motherboards.

BUT

Those issues have not been restricted to any one manufacturer. Each and every time a new socket is released there is a potential for the odd bug to slip through the beta testers net. And with P67 coming so quickly after P55 I am not too surprised that there have been a few problems.

ASUS boards are very good motherboards just as they have been over the last few years and I own quite a couple of them still. Yes there were some issues with the P67 variety. But all vendors have had their little issues with this chipset. The B3 boards will in all likelyhood have ironed out the little snags that did result in a few threads being posted here and on other forums. But those threads were not limited to only one vendor.

In short there is nothing wrong with any of the B3 revision motherboard manufactures products. Most of the issues you have experienced were experienced by other board makers too with the B2 revision board, and I fully expect all vendors have sorted those issues with the new B3 revision.

I do understand your concern of course. And if you would be more comfortable with a different board maker then you have that option. But make that call based on what your are most comfortable with. You do not have to worry about the new revisions giving the same level of complications as the first P67 boards did. ;)
 
I have come from a X58A UD7 to P67 MIVE and I could not be happier. It's a joy to overclock with zero issues. While it's not the OP board it is P67 and I'm sure it's all based on a similar design. Any issues hopefully will get sorted with a BIOS update.
 
hernaldo said:
Hi there, I own one unfortunately on recommendation from a few threads here a while ago. Now here we are a month or so later and the concensus seems to be.

"These boards stink, don't buy them".

Would that be fair to say? I'm asking purely because I've been offered a full refund or a B3 board swap for my B2.

Would appreciate some views from owners, I know it's the nature of the game to have issues with all motherboards along the line from the point of buying to achieving a decent overclock followed by stability. But in this case I'd say the P8P67 range is amongst the crappiest motherboard range in terms of fiddling around for no extra pay off in the last few years?

My issues...

1. BSODs.
2. Double\Tripple POSTs most times at boot up.
3. Ridiculous convoluted BIOS flashing procedure.
4. Inexplicable "overclocking failed" at boot up occassionally.

:confused:
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Had all those issues and more. Bought a UD7 and now have no issues. It OC's a lot higher than the P8P67 also.

Saying no more...
 
MSI customer service is pants, they can take weeks to reply to your e mail enquiries.

Gigabyte are the best for customer service in the UK.
 
bhavv said:
MSI customer service is pants, they can take weeks to reply to your e mail enquiries.

Gigabyte are the best for customer service in the UK.
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Well if MSI is pants, Gigabyte must be the brown stuff that fills them. Nothing but trouble with Gigabyte CS in the past, only good with MSI.

EG MSI http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18251167

We have an MSI rep on OCUK who personally delivers replacements!!!

Gigabyte http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18251938

Nothing or no-one similar from Gigabyte? :confused:
 
Get a refund asus boards have had the most problems from what i read on here and some gigabyte boards have had some probs as well. So get refund then decide.
 
hernaldo said:
But in this case I'd say the P8P67 range is amongst the crappiest motherboard range in terms of fiddling around for no extra pay off in the last few years?
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I'd go further and say the P8P67 series is the crappiest family of motherboards in the last few years, period. The range of problems that affect these boards is bordering on unbelievable, made all the worse by many of them being intermittent and unpredictable in nature. IMHO, these boards were not fit for sale to the public - and that's before taking the SATA bug into account. I dearly wish I'd sent mine back instead of deciding to persevere with it, not believing a company with the experience and resources of Asus could give birth to such a flock of complete and utter turkeys.

I sure won't be buying and Asus board when I build a Bulldozer system in June. At work we've just placed our first order for a batch of socket 1155 boards and I've made very sure ASRock and MSI got the nod for those.
 
dave_beast said:
Well if MSI is pants, Gigabyte must be the brown stuff that fills them. Nothing but trouble with Gigabyte CS in the past, only good with MSI.

EG MSI http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18251167

We have an MSI rep on OCUK who personally delivers replacements!!!

Gigabyte http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18251938

Nothing or no-one similar from Gigabyte? :confused:
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Why do gigabyte need a rep on these forums when all you have to do is send them an Email for direct service?

I've never understood why people whine so much about RMA and customer service, purely because they are incapable of following each manufacturers guidelines.

I dont believe that Gigabytes CS is nothing but trouble, when everyone in that thread you posted are singing praise about how great they are?

I've had MSI, Gigabtye and Asus motherboards, and if I hae an issue I contact the manufacturer dirrectly. MSI were always extremely slow to respond to any queries.
 
I was in the same position as the OP with my P8P67 Pro; I selected a refund with my etailer and purchased the MSI P67A-GD65 after receiving several recommendations.

As the RMA was approved and the etailer was going to send a courier at my convenience, I opted to purchase the MSI prior to returning the Asus, this allowed me to swap over the motherboards with minimal downtime.
 
Gigabyte, I swear by 'em. reliable, solid and well maintained through there product customer support.
 
bhavv said:
MSI customer service is pants, they can take weeks to reply to your e mail enquiries.

Gigabyte are the best for customer service in the UK.
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I've had nothing but great customer service from MSI.

A painless advanced replacement of my B2 Sandybridge boards with personal delivery by ScottiB.

My payment for the advanced replacements was refunded within 24 hours of returning the old boards.

And they're also great boards. I've had absolutely no issues at all and they've overclocked very easily.

Read it and weep Asus.
 
Okey dokey,

Thanks for all the replies, right my mind is made up. Refund here I come :)

Leaning towards an MSI board as they seem pretty good value and there doesn't seem to be a list of common complaints at all with their boards, anyways good to hear I'm not mad for contemplating the extra hassle but got spare money to pay for the board before refund so it shouldn't be too painful.

Cheers again,
 
hernaldo said:
Okey dokey,

Thanks for all the replies, right my mind is made up. Refund here I come :)

Leaning towards an MSI board as they seem pretty good value and there doesn't seem to be a list of common complaints at all with their boards, anyways good to hear I'm not mad for contemplating the extra hassle but got spare money to pay for the board before refund so it shouldn't be too painful.

Cheers again,
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You made a good choice there hernaldo.
 
I had the cold booth issue with my P67 pro when i first got it in January but a simple bios update fixed that that. It ran like a champ all the way up til yesterday when i replaced it.

No issue with either of my new Asus P67 pro B3 motherboards so far. Im thinking that most of the people on here bought an Asus SB board so maybe that is why there seems to be more problems arising than any other board released. Just a theory :confused:
 
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