| ASUS P8P67 EVO Sandy Bridge Motherboard |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Motherboards | |
| Written by Olin Coles and David Ramsey | |
| Sunday, 02 January 2011 | |
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ASUS UEFI BIOSThe first major innovation for motherboards happens in the BIOS, where a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) design aims to supplement and replace an aging text-only layout with a new graphical user interface for pre-boot settings. UEFI is the replacement for Intel's original EFI 1.1 specification. On ASUS' premium models such as the Maximus IV Extreme, users can export UEFI screen captures onto an attached USB flash drive and then share with others to help illustrate settings.
The greatest part of UEFI is that anyone can build their own custom environment based on the Unified EFI Specification, and while BIOS vendors will likely make up the majority of builds the enthusiast community can also join in.
Floppy diskette drives officially now have no purpose being used with modern computer hardware. Previous BIOS firmware could be compressed to fit on a 1.44 MB floppy, but because of the large UEFI (BIOS) interface a 32MB ROM is now required. This will accelerate the use of USB-based devices for flashing BIOS firmware updates.
The ASUS UEFI (BIOS) can be used to configure hardware parameters and power settings, but users may prefer the robust AI Suite II software. The BIOS provides most of the same functionality, but AI Suite II allows for real-time changes by using integrated DIGI+ VRM, EPU, TurboV EVO, BT GO!, FAN Xpert, and Probe II software.
The UEFI (BIOS) requires system memory in order to book, since none of the ASUS P67-based motherboards have onboard memory outside of the 32MB ROM for UEFI. While UEFI is a great step forward, having the ability to boot the motherboard without system memory installed would have solved countless troubleshooting situations for hardware enthusiasts.
For users with a familiarity with text-only BIOS options, the new ASUS UEFI (BIOS) will come naturally as most options mirror those previously available. For novice hardware enthusiasts, the easy-to-navigate graphical user interface will allow them to make changes to the ASUS P8P67 motherboard series without fear.
Advanced overclockers will enjoy the UEFI (BIOS) EZ Mode utility, which allows them to make adjustments and test settings before entering the Operating System. Surprisingly, the ASUS auto-overclocking utilities (Easy OC Tool/TurboV EVO) do an impressive job at finding the maximum overclock possible.
Another nice feature about the UEFI (BIOS) is that it's already compatible with storage devices with more than 2.2 TB capacity - a barrier that holds many older motherboards back and restricts some of the latest large-capacity storage products.
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Comments
But does it matter? With all the clock management feature implemented by Intel, The CPU will almost always be downclocked, or, if under load, be in one state of Turbo or another.
It's hard to imagine a situation where all 4 cores would be running at their nominal base clock.
From previous info about SB, I was thinking that k-Series CPU would allow control over both the base clock and Turbo clocks.
I'm looking forward to see what AMD will do with base and turbo overclocking on Bulldozer.
One small typo on page 8, in the X58 Test Platform info, the CPU is listed as: "Processor: 2.80GHz Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield/Nehalem BX80601950". The i7-950 is spec'd by Intel as 3.0GHz, while the i7-930 is 2.80GHz.
P8P67 EVO : Marvell® 9120 controller
P8P67 DELUXE : Marvell® PCIe 9128 SATA 6Gb/s controller with HyperDuo function.
Is there an error on HyperDuo Evo's feature ?
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P8P67 DELUXE Marvell 9128 ...
I just wish to drop in a 3770K into the socket. more to the point.
I cannot find the update on the Asus website.. I have looked twice, plenty of old updates, with no new updates.! the only way is to buy a cheap Z77 Motherboard something like the ASUS Z77 LX-2 which is under £100 quid on Amazon UK. Be better off with a Z77 Board anyways. future proofing, for more i5 CPU's and i7 CPU's.
Go here: ##asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8P67_EVO/#download
...click the "Download" tab, and then the "BIOS" link.
Not many other manufactures provide the PC front Panel case header Plugs inside the box that makes wiring up the Power, HD, LED, and USB very simple just saves about 20 mins of time messing around.
Thanks to all who contribute, many thanks in Advance... Dave.
Apropos of nothing, some of the newer MSI board also include front panel header blocks.
Yeah, the newer motherboards have PCI-E 3.0, but since no graphics card comes close to saturating an x16 PCI-E 2.0 slot, the extra bandwidth doesn't buy you any better GPU performance.
Z77 gets you stuff like Intel Smart Response technology (SSD caching) and other things. Check out some of our Z77 reviews for the details. Again, though, if you're looking for better CPU and GPU performance, the only way to get that is to buy faster CPUs and GPUs.