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The P8P67 Deluxe is an attractive board design with blue heatsinks pairing up with the matching slot colours.
The board is supplied with 4 DIMMS supporting a maximum of 32GB of memory. This is a dual channel memory architecture with DDR3 2200(O.C.)*/2133(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory support.
The memory slots are positioned to allow for big air coolers to be fitted with relative ease
There are 8 SATA ports on the board, 4 of which are SATA 3.0GB/s capable. The white/gray connectors are controlled by the Intel chipset and are SATA 6.0 GB/s capable. The navy blue ports on the far right are controlled by the Marvell PCIe 9128 Sata chip and they are also SATA 6.0 GB/s capable. To the right of the SATA ports is a UEFI BIOS chip and a 19 pin header for the bundled front panel USB 3.0 box.
The motherboard has easy access switches for power and reset, and there is an LED readout for easy diagnostic troubleshooting. There are also several USB 2.0 header ports here, and an IEEE 1394 header with connectors for front panel audio close by.
The P8P67 Deluxe supports both Nvidia QUAD Sli and ATI QUAD CrossfireX. There are also a pair of standard PCI slots which many people will find useful. The board design is spacious and we can't really find fault with the layout.
Intel's SandyBridge CPU provides 16 lanes to utilise and ASUS integrate a PLX bridge chip to accumulate an additional eight lanes. This means the total 24 lanes offer a range of configurations across three full size PCIe slot in a single x16, dual x8 or a three way x8, x8, x4 setup.
Asus have included a MEMOK! button and other dedicated hardware switches for ASUS exclusive ‘Dual Intelligent Processors', EPU (Energy Processing Unit) and TPU (TurboV Processing Unit). These facilitate regulation of system power by monitoring CPU load and there is also automatic overclocking capabilities.
The board has a plethora of fan headers. A four pin CPU header, a four pin chassis header and three more three pin headers.
The rear I/O Panel has a multitude of connectivity options. There are 10 USB ports here (8x USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0), two eSATA ports (one is powered), FireWire, a bluetooth module, PS/2 keyboard and mouse connector, CMOS clear button and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, one of which is powered by the Realtek 8111E controller with the other powered by Intel 82579.
Realtek audio is provided via the ALC889 high definition audio codec which can output sound through the eight channel analogue connectors, or either coaxial or optical S/PDIF.
ASUS rock, nuff’ said.
I really do like the new bios configurations, the change from the pants style blue screen was long overdue.
The biggest problem with buying P67 right now is Z68. Is a newer product. no one will be buying until its released. even if its pointless, which I have a feeling it is.
Asus make good boards, its all about the bios stability and power delivery and this product has both.
Good product, but the pricing just keeps creeping up on these boards, everytime I look, its £10 more for xx feature. I remember last year a good board was £120-130.
I always buy asus boards but im waiting to see z68
The auto overclock optioms are good cause i suck at overcockimg. Is 1.48 volts safe enough long term, seems high
I like the power configurations now, mobo manufacturers got wise in recent years
I ordered one of these a while back and got it replaced for the b3 version, had no problems from scan.
Great board, ive my 2500 at 4.7 with a coolermaster cooler
They are expenisve in my country, gigabyte are normally better value
i really love Asus you’ll find almost all you need in there products, Quality & performance thats what they have.