Poll: So what P67 motherboard are you thinking of buying?

What P67 Board brand are you thinking of getting?


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nlel1975 - well i do believe that its possible to save £50 from buying elsewere, simple reason being a competitor have just put up there asus deluxe board which came in £23 cheaper than what OCUK was selling them at today, Also i would have said by the amount they bumped up the ME4 today that the 2500k would have been overpriced aswell.
 
going by todays bloopers and seeing the new systems listed it seems you guys will only offer 4.6GHZ bundles? :( youtube video linked 2-3 pages back the guy overclocks to 4.6 on the asus uefi bios by hitting 1 button .... it had a pre set profile for 4.60 ghz and he did not have to adjust anything so it seems anyone and thier dog/cat/hamster can do 4.6.

i was hoping for a 4.8ghz ud5 bundle to be honest when it seems so easy:<
 
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Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere, looks very similar to the Asus Formula motherboards, I think this is the first Fatal1ty board since Abit went out of business.

Johnathan Wendel, I wonder how long it took him to learn the script. :D

 
i am really considering this asus p67 now over the gigabyte motherboards due to having pci-e 1x slots.the price puts me off a little though its too cheap! whats the advantages of the pro version other than more pci-e 16x slots for sli? i hate sli but would imagine the pro would overclock better? £120 just doesnt sit right in my head for having a 2600k at 4.8GHZ. UEFI also needs refined until i touch it as youtube video reviews say its making overclocking impossible and unstable past 4.6.


now chaps i need some help on the spec list.what does this mean exactly? this is the asus specs for the p8p67

1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (single at x16)
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1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 *
2 x PCIe 2.0 x1
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*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.



now i only want to use 1xGTX 580 in the top 16x slot but i also have my pci-e 1x soundcard which i dont want to eat into the USB3 bandwidth in any way.i understand that the second 16x slot shares with the 2 pci-e 1x slots and the usb34 but what does usb 34 mean does it mean all usb 3.0 slots or just usb 3 and 4 connectors(board has 4x usb 3).

more importantly though if i avoid that shared second 16x slot and put the soundcard into the 1x slot does this mean i am no longer sharing usb 3 bandwidth or are all the damm secondary pci-e 16 and 1x slots linked to usb 3?
 
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nlel1975 - well i do believe that its possible to save £50 from buying elsewere, simple reason being a competitor have just put up there asus deluxe board which came in £23 cheaper than what OCUK was selling them at today, Also i would have said by the amount they bumped up the ME4 today that the 2500k would have been overpriced aswell.

I was talking about the P8P67 which was listed at only £ 5 cheaper elsewhere (on pre-order). The i5-2500k was priced a bit high (but only by about £ 10) but then they had stock and were despatching them.

EDIT: I have just checked the status of my ocUK i5-2500k and mobo despatched yesterday and they have already passed thru Jersey customs, should be getting them today or tommorow now!

and I calculated the cheapest price for the system I am building using components sourced elsewhere (some of which are only on pre-order) and it only came to £ 19.42 cheaper for the whole system exact same components and that is not including Jersey GST at 3% for internet orders over £ 400 which would bring it up to only £ 1.72 cheaper (of course I did not pay GST on my bits as I did seperate orders under £ 400) - so overall I do not think I got done!
 
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Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere, looks very similar to the Asus Formula motherboards, I think this is the first Fatal1ty board since Abit went out of business.

Johnathan Wendel, I wonder how long it took him to learn the script. :D


Hi, it's Chris Lee from Asrock, what a character, seen all his vids :p
 
I suspect the price of the Maximus will drop a fair amount when stock is available. I just checked a distributor at work and although they are out of stock of the board until the 17th of this month, the price is significantly lower.
 
However the "K" version CPUs have a higher GPU frequency so they are better when using the onbaord outputs on the H67, so the K CPUs are not wasted on H67 boards. They simply have a different use.

I was thinking of the H67 boards as i dont game but with no overclocking its really put me off dont know why it has to be this way.
 
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