1-20-2011 review by hexus

This mobo offers a reasonable feature-set, but it has no UEFI BIOS, SLI, FireWire and eSATA support. The board has an adjustable multiplier and is very energy efficient. This mainboard might be the budget P67 board of choice, it has a Solid performance and is a good overclocker, on the downside are the BIOS and a the PCIe lane arrangement for graphics.

Compared To:

Intel DB67HL, ASUS P8P67 Deluxe, ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme.

Test Setup:

• Computer Case : Corsair Obsidian Series 700D
• CPU : Intel Core i5 2500K
• Optical Drive : Sony AD-7263S
• Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate x64
• PSU : Corsair HX1000W
• RAM : 2x2GB Corsair DDR3 1333MHz
• SSD : Corsair V128
• Video Card : AMD Radeon HD6950 2GB

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, 7zip, AIDA64, Cal of Duty Black Ops, Cinebench, PiFast, Power Consumption, StarCraft II : Wings of Liberty, Storage Performance, TrueCrypt, wPrime.

Overclocking:

A Core i5 2500K was OCed @ 4.4GHz, the CPU cooler used was the reference heatsink.