May 24 2011 review by lanoc

When compared to the P67A-GD65 this board has more USB 3.0 connections and a second ethernet port. Because of its lower price the reviewer would recommend the GD65 unless you need dual LAN.

Compared To:

ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional, Gigabyte GA-H67A-UD3H, Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4, Intel DH67BL, MSI P67-GD65.

Benchmarks Tested:

Call Of Duty Black Ops, Battlefield Bad Company, Mafia 2 , 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark Vantage 2011, and PC Mark Vantage.

Overclocking:

a Core i5-2500K was OCed @4950Mhz.

Test Setup:

• CPU : Intel Core i5-2500K
• CPU Cooler : Noctua NH-C14
• Memory : Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 1600Mhz 2x2Gb
• Power Supply : Cooler Master 850Watt
• SSD : OCZ Agility 2 60Gb
• Video Card : Sapphire Radeon HD 6970
• Video Card : Two Nvidia GeForce GTX580's for SLI testing

3-30-2011 review by techwarelabs

The layout of thid mobo is ideal, the color scheme is nice and the list of features is very long. When the third PCIe x16 slot is in use, even with a single-slot card, the USB3 and 1394 front panel headers are blocked.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, AIDA64, Aliens vs Predator, PassMark PerformanceTest 7.0, PC mark vantage, Sisoft Sandra, TrueCrypt, Unigine Heaven 2.1, x264 HD.

Test Setup:

• CPU Cooler : Intel stock cooler
• Mainboard : MSI P67A-GD80
• Memory : 2x4GB SuperTalent DDR3 2000MHz
• Processor : Intel Core i5 2300
• Sound Card : Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD
• Video Card : Sparkle GeForce GTX 465

Compared To:

This mainboard was not compared to another board.

Overclocking:

The reviewers did not perform any overclocking.