1-14-2011 review by hardwareheaven

This mobo has more more PCIe lanes, supports DDR3 2000MHz+, has an enhanced power design, 8 on-board USB 3.0 ports and 2 more when connected to the front panel, next to that it has 4 SATA3 connectors. You'll be able to squeeze some extra performance out of every component installed on it. The CrossFire test had a noticeably higher performance than a standard P67 board. The new EFI based BIOS looks great, and has lots of features.

Overclocking:

A Core i7-2600K(3.4GHz) was OCed @ 5.1GHz with 1.56vcore using water cooling.

Compared To:

Intel DP67BG

Test Setup:

• Blu-Ray: Sony BDU-X10S
• CPU : Intel Core i7-2600K
• Display : 3x ASUS VG236H
• Graphics Card : Sapphire Radeon HD 6970
• HDD : 2x WD VelociRaptor Hard Drives
• HDD : WD Caviar Green 3TB Hard Drive
• Memory : 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600
• PSU : Corsair AX1200W
• SSD : Corsair F120 (Sandforce) 120GB SSD
• Water cooling : Corsair H70

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2011, Crysis: Warhead, PowerDVD 10 Ultra 3D Mark II, Adobe Master Collection CS5, Cinebench R11.5 64-bit, dBpoweramp, AIDA 64, Sisoft Sandra, Fraps.