So it's official the Asus P8P67 range - Avoid?
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In your first comment you stated Asus sell more boards.
Then you say you dont know how many were sold.
The `I can't offer figures` in your first post you are referring to Asus problems vs sales ratios does it not?
Can you back this up with some figures?
Couldn't agree more. People are quick to complain when they have a problem and jump on the bandwagon.
My Deluxe I had nothing but praise for, untill after a month or so issues started to appear.
It was just horrible to work with and ask it to do anything remotely taxing. I went to a 4 day LAN with it and I saw a BSOD every day. I even remeber where it happened. 1) Plugging my Xbox controller to charge, 2) Exiting Dirt 2, 3) Exiting F1 2010 4) Starting Mumble. I was running only on the 6gbps ports then so not sata related.
My 4.6ghz OC then became VERY unstable and would do nothing than stock. The supplied disc would not install drivers and software. Feels like im constantly watching for BIOS updates and fixes to resolve the most obvious of bugs?
In comparison the UD7 is a god send, It just works. For a laugh the software straight away found a profile to go 4.2ghz which it did and is stable. I have also gone back to 4.6ghz and its prime stable.
Its been on for a week now with no shut down to check for stabilty and its been fine. Not even had a BIOS update yet from F2. The disc worked first time and installed all software and drivers in 5 minutes.
While I like Asus products I always seem to have nothing but issues with there mainboards.
It was just horrible to work with and ask it to do anything remotely taxing. I went to a 4 day LAN with it and I saw a BSOD every day. I even remeber where it happened. 1) Plugging my Xbox controller to charge, 2) Exiting Dirt 2, 3) Exiting F1 2010 4) Starting Mumble. I was running only on the 6gbps ports then so not sata related.
My 4.6ghz OC then became VERY unstable and would do nothing than stock. The supplied disc would not install drivers and software. Feels like im constantly watching for BIOS updates and fixes to resolve the most obvious of bugs?
In comparison the UD7 is a god send, It just works. For a laugh the software straight away found a profile to go 4.2ghz which it did and is stable. I have also gone back to 4.6ghz and its prime stable.
Its been on for a week now with no shut down to check for stabilty and its been fine. Not even had a BIOS update yet from F2. The disc worked first time and installed all software and drivers in 5 minutes.
While I like Asus products I always seem to have nothing but issues with there mainboards.
Touchy aren't we?
If you scroll through the threads on ocuk you will find a topic whereby members were asked to vote for the motherboard they intended to purchase (Did you miss that bit in the previous post? Looks like you did.)
Anyway, Asus sales forecast on that poll exceeded most other manufacturers by a factor of three.
I'm sure you will fail to accept the reasoning here.
Yes it seems you are.
No I did not miss anything, seems you are a little confused.
Did you miss this post? It refers to the ratio of Asus boards sold against Gigabyte boards.
Yes it seems you are.
No I did not miss anything, seems you are a little confused.
Did you miss this post? It refers to the ratio of Asus boards sold against Gigabyte boards.
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Everything still sweet and dandy here after a week...My B3 came with EFI 1401. Upgraded straight to 1505 before installing windows. Overclocked to 4.5...(That is enough for me). Seems rock solid after intel burn test, aida64 stability test and prime95...
Have you got another replacement for the Pro and if so, what did you go with?
Have been looking at the Asrock P67 Extreme4 myself...
Everyone's experience is going to be anecdotal, considering most people only see the performance of one or two motherboards, which is always going to give a skewed sample set
As NatWraith said, OcUK sell about 5 times as many Asus boards as Gigabyte boards, so you're going to see a lot more people on the forums who are Asus users. And complainers are going to be a lot more vocal than the people happily using their systems The only figures that count are RMA. Every manufacturer has had problems before their B3 revision, so not sure any anecdotal evidence is really relevant.
One thing I will say though, is people saying their Gigabyte UD7 board is great - I'm glad it is, it OUGHT to be, it's a £300 piece of kit, you can't compare it to an entry level £135 board like the P8P67!
As NatWraith said, OcUK sell about 5 times as many Asus boards as Gigabyte boards, so you're going to see a lot more people on the forums who are Asus users. And complainers are going to be a lot more vocal than the people happily using their systems
The only figures that count are RMA. Every manufacturer has had problems before their B3 revision, so not sure any anecdotal evidence is really relevant.One thing I will say though, is people saying their Gigabyte UD7 board is great - I'm glad it is, it OUGHT to be, it's a £300 piece of kit, you can't compare it to an entry level £135 board like the P8P67!
Regardless, I had a deluxe which was coming upto £200. If I buy a £1000 car I expect it to work the same as one costing £4000. It may not have all the mod cons but it should do the job, Which my P8P67 struggled to do. The UD5 would be a compariable replacement and that is just as good.
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Our overall return rate for the Asus P8P67 PRO is 2%, the MSI GD65 is also 2% and the Gigabyte UD4 is 1.56%.
Our overall return rate for the Asus P8P67 PRO is 2%, the MSI GD65 is also 2% and the Gigabyte UD4 is 1.56%.
Thanks for that info. Very interesting, especially when you say you sell 5 times as many Asus boards to gigabyte boards.