First board Asus P8P67 Pro tested with NDA lifted on retail I7 2600K. Been spending few hours in playing this board and chip.

Specifications of board,
- Support up to DDR3 2200
- 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (single at x16 or dual at x8/x8 mode)
- 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 * [Black] (max. at x4 mode, compatible with PCIe x1 and x4 devices)
- 2 x PCIe 2.0 x1
- 2 x PCI
- Support CrossX and SLI Technology
- Intel® P67 Express Chipset
2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (gray)
4 xSATA 3.0 Gb/s ports (blue)
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10
- Marvell® 9120 controller
2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (navy blue)*
- JMicron® JMB362 SATA controller
2 xExternal SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports*

Some picture to share:

The front side of motherboard and chip,


The back of motherboard,


Layout of board,


EPU Switch - no test on this switch as I dun have many fans, monitors and hard drive on my test rig,
DRAM LED - Mainly checking on ram, if the red light stay on which mean the memory are giving issue


TPU Switch, for lazy people who want to OC with ease, just enable this switch before power up and after power on, the board will do the OC job,


CLRTC Jumper,


I/O


Test system,
Motherboard : Asus P8P67 Pro
CPU : Intel I7 2600K
Memory : GSKILL FLARE PC3 16000
PSU: Corsair HX950W
OS: Window 7 64 bit

First the result on stock speed,






Overclocking result with TPU Switch Enabled,






Highest acheived 5.25Ghz. Been spending 2 hours for my memory and get none. Memory giving a lot of issues and need some better memory dedicated to Sandy Bridge. Max achived at bclk 103 but the system is not stable at all. No post and have to lower down the bclk to 100 and CPU Turbo to crank up again. No extreme overvolt is available and max voltage capped at 1.53V. Only bclk can bring the clock speed up a little more (Test next time when I have the SB memory)






Last, voltage scaling for my chip during the benching,
1.2V at 4.5Ghz
1.25 at 4.6Ghz
1.3V at 4.8Ghz
1.365V at 5Ghz
1.51V at 5.25Ghz

Tired need to sleep... fainting soon..

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This post has been edited by louislkw: Jan 9 2011, 06:36 PM


Attached thumbnail(s)

Bench with water cooling in air con room.

Not so soon I beleived. Still have few boards to test.

Thanks.

You mean mine? On water-cooling with EK supreme HF jet plate no 4.

Great...

What is the OS used?

Thanks.

Can make a run with 32M?

Special guest has arrived,

A sneak preview,





Sorry for the poor picture. Will take another set again.

Update over the weekend.

After a long wait, received the memory from GSKILL. This is the new memory line up for new Intel Sandy Bridge. It's work excellent on the P67 board.

Let the number do the dancing.

Specification of Ripjaw-X,
DRAM Frequency - 2133Mhz
Timing - CL7-10-7-27
Capacity - 2X2GB
Voltage - 1.65V









Test System,
CPU - Intel I7 2600K
Motherboard - Asus P8P67PRO & Asrock P67 Extreme 4
Memory - GSKILL Ripjaw-X 2133Mhz
OS- Window 7 64









Thanks for viewing.

This post has been edited by louislkw: Jan 16 2011, 09:30 AM

Go and hoot GSKILL memory.

Yo, BCLK 108.01 :b1:



Still far from 109

Get a higher capacity PSU. You can try oc with current until pc auto shut down.

No one will know how high its can go until you have try it out yourself. It's chip dependence.

Just like eating a mango, you dun know whether it is sour or sweet until you taste it.

Run some benchmark and you will know whether your memory sit tight in memory slots.

The new bios will make available in few days time in ASUS official website. Wait the new bios out then flash it. The new bios will solve the BCLK, memory clocking especially 2133mhz and power cycles issues.

There is a "TPU" switch on your motherboard. Don't be lazy to read through the manual. With "TPU" enable, the motherboard will do the overclocking itself without much manipulated of settings to be done by yourself.

To enable, pls shut down your PC.
- Power on your PSU
- Enable the "TPU" switch
- Power on the motherboard
- The motherboard will do the overclocking itself and finish the whole process in less than 5 minutes.
- Boot into window and you are done. Open CPU-Z to check the clock speed.
- Enjoy

Quick and dirty run.. Need more times to run in XP but that is after chinese new year together with GTX580..

No more 3D, need to go back to 2d..











This post has been edited by louislkw: Jan 21 2011, 09:26 AM

To those who are using Asus P8H67-M EVO, attached link is the latest bios.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C2GYONR4

Asus P8H67-M Pro are on the way and should be up by tomorrow night.

Any ASUS bios request which is not available pls let me know.

Thanks.

I got too many bios and might mixed up.

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Added on January 24, 2011, 11:25 pmIt is not batch dependent. Pure luck.

This post has been edited by louislkw: Jan 24 2011, 11:25 PM

You guys can look for L047A911. Good luck for your hands.

There is no golden batch. Pure luck

You want? I can sell you. This already tested.

You get what I mean.

Attached link is the latest bios for Asus P8H67-M Evo. Pls flash it to solve the power cycling issue and better OC performance.

http://www.box.net/shared/d6da2l3lg5

All other which are not available will be up quite soon.

Below is the list of compiled bios update for different model which some are not make official yet. Solved power cycling issue and better OC performance.

P8P67 (v. 1253): http://www.box.net/shared/tqma59kmnx
P8P67 EVO (v. 1253): http://www.box.net/shared/2bog0kn6ta
P8P67 PRO (v. 1253): http://www.box.net/shared/dfmdqkzkhy
P8P67 Deluxe (v. 1253): http://www.box.net/shared/brfo715x36
Maximus IV Extreme (v. 0802): http://www.box.net/shared/0rpx35z5he
P8H67-M EVO (v. 1253): http://www.box.net/shared/d6da2l3lg5

Any user who need Asrock P67 bios update? pls let me know.

Request for Asus P8P67 LE has been submitted. Stay tuned.

Dear Moderator & Owikh84, can you guys copy all the boards latest bios to first page of this thread to avoid confusion. Many Thanks.

This post has been edited by louislkw: Jan 25 2011, 07:48 PM

Hands very itchy but away from hardwares

Here are the updates regardings some errors encountered in Asus P67/H67 motherbaords,
1) If random BSOD (Blue Screen of Dealth) under Window 7 OS, pls kindly download the patch from microsfot to fix it (Not applicable to Overclocking). Here is the link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979444.
2) Long boot up time and slow performance of SATA HDD and SSD, pls remove Intel RST 10.1 and use the Intel boxed AHCI drive if using Window 7 or Window Vista. For Window XP users, pls set to IDE to see the problem whether resolved.
3) If you are unable to display BCLK properly under OS, not being able to overclock under OS (include auto-tuning), pls check whether Intel MEI from the support CD is installed.
4) It is about power saving not working after using Bios 1253, pls check whether the power profile has been set to balanced mode instead of Performance Mode. As long the EIST is not disable or set the CPU voltage to manual mode, the power saving modes should still keep its function.
5) If any of the device listed below is not getting detected or useable:
- Device installed on PCIEx1_1 slot
- Device installed on PCIEx1_2 slot
- The additional SATA 6G port from Marvell 9128
- eSATA controller
- Device installed on PCI_1 slot
- Device installed on PCI_2 slot
- Onboard 1394 controller
- Second LAN
Pls check in device manager under "Storage Controller" with a name "ACS-6xxx". The manufacturer is "Accusys Inc" while with an exclamation mark next to it. This might be installed automaticlly when running Window Update which causes the malfunction of the PLX bridge chip. Pls kindly uninstall that thing and those devices will be back to life.

Pls shoot me a PM if you have any other than the above.

Nice day. Happy Chinese New Year.

This post has been edited by louislkw: Jan 27 2011, 01:53 PM

Intel Chipset Design Error

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_...enting-solution

All the P67/H67 might be recall back.

This post has been edited by louislkw: Feb 1 2011, 10:16 AM

Finally open the box, sexy beast..

Performance and overclocking wise still unknown yet.

Play some SuperPI32M, result not so good, still need to improve on memory timing and look for better memory. Still waiting, hehe