ASUS P8P67 PRO Pro Reviews

Although the ASUS P8P67 Pro is perhaps a little too overclocking focused and rough around the edges in some respects, not to mention strewn with excessive marketing names for features a general PC user will find of little substance.... the P8P67 Pro has the right features where it counts. In this day and age, a good amount of USB 3.0 is key. The same can be said for SATA III ports. Users with smart phones will certainly appreciate the integrated Bluetooth capability. To sum up, although the ASUS P8P67 Pro made a very bad initial impression with us on the marketing side, on the whole it is a nice board and well worth your consideration.

At $190, the ASUS P8P67 Pro is a good choice for a Sandy Bridge system. For its good combination of ports, slots, and features, it earns the Bjorn3D Silver Bear Award.

The ASUS P8P67 PRO is targeted to the user who is building a computer based on an Intel CPU and wants more features than “normal” socket 1155 motherboards can provide, such as a Bluetooth receiver, on-board optical and coaxial SPDIF outputs, two additional SATA-600 ports for a total of four, four USB 3.0 ports, two eSATA-300 ports, two FireWire ports, a third PCI Express x16 slot, more overclocking options, and a better-than-average voltage regulator circuit.

Looking at the benchmark scores, the P8P67 Pro usually fell in the middle of the pack. Although it did not grab the performance crown in any of the benchmarks, it recorded the lowest idle power consumption. The biggest advantage the Pro has over the competition is affordability, making it increasingly attractive for those who want to maximize their investment.

If it's lacking some of the flashier features of other P67 Express chipset motherboards, the Asus P8P67 Pro is nonetheless an excellent choice for enthusiasts who want control over every aspect of their PCs.

We spent a full week of 12+ hour days playing with the ASUS P8P67 PRO, subjecting it to all sorts of uses, including writing this review. The sheer number of features, customizability, and software package left us wanting for very little. Once again, however, we were a bit disappointed in finding what we consider a shortage of SATA cables in the box. There's not much left to be said about the ASUS P8P67 PRO, as we are very satisfied with this product, and hope to see you the readers posting for help getting yours setup in the forum, although we feel confident that ASUS has ensured that most users will get up and running without any problem at all.

We were able to run our 2600K at a stable 4.5GHz with the Pro B3, which is commendable for this end of the price spectrum. The Bluetooth receiver is a nice touch too, allowing remote overclocking via your smartphone or tablet. Value for money, then, is the premium consideration here, albeit with a few perks. If we ignore that earlier rant about the B3 revision mark-up, this board delivers truckloads of the stuff. Performance is comparable to the flagship Maximus IV in terms of CPU grunt and gaming, and there's a huge wad of cash separating the two. Unfortunately, the inflated price means we can't quite recommend this as much as we'd like to. With the imminent release of Z68 chipsets that offer the best of both current H67 and P67 boards, it makes more sense to hold out a bit longer before buying the ideal home for your Sandy Bridge chip.

The £150 P8P67 PRO crams in an excellent array of features on to a well-laid-out board. There's practically everything you could want in a deluxe board, topped off by the one of the better BIOSes we've seen thus far. Performance is solid at stock speeds and the PRO's got enough overclocking wherewithal to push K-series chips over 1GHz past their default speeds. Readers looking for even more would do well to take a peek at the £185 Deluxe variant, which ships with a second Gigabit port, rear-mounted clear CMOS button, debug LED, and a heftier array of heatsinks.

During our tests of the ASUS P8P67 Pro we found a number of small issues and problems which might be expected considering the numerous innovations implemented in it. There is only one serious problem, though. It is the mainboard's inability to work at a memory frequency of 1600 MHz. I am sure that these issues will be fixed and off-the-shelf mainboards will be better than our sample. As we’ve already had a chance to check out new mainboards from other makers, we can state that ASUS P8P67 Pro has made the strongest impression so far.

This motherboard is the first I've tested with the P67 chipset, and I couldn't have been more pleased with the overall features and overclocking prowess of the P8P67 Pro. ASUS seamlessly integrated their own unique modifications and third-party software with Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture as well as their P67 chipset. ASUS even went a step further and added extra controllers for more USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s support. Overall, the P8P67 Pro earns PC Perspective's Silver Award for its ingenuity, strong software, and overclockability.

In the end, this is a very high quality motherboard at a reasonable price, and although it might only be the second Intel P67-based LGA1155 motherboard that we have spent any considerable amount of time with, it definitely seems like a difficult one to beat.

ASUS comes to the table with an extensive lineup of P67 based motherboards. You have pretty much every price point and feature set covered. I did not look at all of the boards available from ASUS but a grouping that covered three distinct areas. The average home user, the work station and hardcore gamer with the P8P67 Pro, P8P67 WS Revolution and the Maximus IV Extreme.

ASUS has really done a good job with their new P8P67 Pro motherboard. This board is priced lower than the Deluxe and higher than the P8P67 boards, offering a few less features than the Deluxe and more features than the P8P67. In terms of performance this board is slightly higher performing than the other boards I’ve tested with the 2600K CPU. Overclocking options abound on the UEFI BIOS and I was able to get the multiplier above 46 on air giving a 4.6GHz overclock without much issue. If you’re looking for a solid board in this price range for your new Sandy Bridge Rig, the P8P67 Pro is a choice you won’t go wrong with. It's a solid Hot Product here on motherboards.org.

After playing with both boards, I can only come to one conclusion – if it were my money, I would take the ASUS P8P67 Pro over the Gigabyte P67A-UD4. With the ASUS board, you are getting a detailed UEFI, an awesome auto-overclocking tool, better energy saving features, a USB 3.0 bracket , more SATA 6 Gb/s ports, Intel gigabit Ethernet, and in my case, scope for a better overclock. The Gigabyte board is essentially expensive for what is on offer, in terms of usability, features, and extras.