High-End P67 Express: Five $200-250 Motherboards

[apache_lives]

MSI is balls theres no suprise there

the only real choice in mainboards really is ASUS or Gigabyte

 

[spectrewind]

I'm waiting to see benchies on Z68 before buying anything.

Currently have my eyes on the "z68x-ud7-b3" (future release) to see how it compares to P67(any).


One piece of advice I have for anyone building a gaming rig: Do NOT try to save money, economically, on your selection of motherboard. If you need to cut dollars/corners somewhere in cost, your motherboard is *NOT* the place to do it. -Your will regret doing this.

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]Max_DTH[/nom]Hi everyone it's nice to be a part of Tom's Hardware forum community I'm constant Tom's Hardware reader and I just love this site, especially for professional and reliable reviews.My Q6600 based PC just died and I'm building Sandy Bridge machine.[/citation]Feel free to start a thread in the forums. What do you mean your Q6600 just died? Chances are only one part is broken and chances are it's the PSU.

The Turbo Boost and Speedstep are the same on all of these mobos. I don't know if they have custom options though.

Clearing CMOS--can be done removing the mobo battery, moving the on-board jumper pins, or pressing a button on the back of enthusiast motherboards. The ASRock strangely lacks the button on the back, based on your description.

 

[Max_DTH]

@Leaps-from-Shadows
Thanks, for a response. That is what I wanted to hear.

@Crashman
I see your point with CLR CMOS.

@dalauder
Nope, Q6600 is alive. My Be quiet! Dark Power Pro P7 died and took Mobo and Graphics with it (shame on you Be quiet!). There is a little chance of buying proper LGA 775 board now, so I decided that rebuilding old PC for half the price of Sandy Bridge PC is pointless.
Regarding CLR CMOS there is a button (nice, fancy one) between PS/2 ports and SPDIFs in ASRock. In the same location MSI have small black button and Asus have it next to audio jacks. This are the buttons which I reffered to.

 

[steved54321]

Crashman: Please tell Gigabyte to produce something for this market!

Gigabyte did the P67A-UD5 & UD7 being UD7 the one I have which has two PCI 16X lanes.

I got the Asus P67 Deluxe but it was DOA out of the box and were all sold out so I went higher end.

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]steved54321[/nom]Gigabyte did the P67A-UD5 & UD7 being UD7 the one I have which has two PCI 16X lanes.I got the Asus P67 Deluxe but it was DOA out of the box and were all sold out so I went higher end.[/citation]Please read my first response on THIS page. Gigabyte does NOT produce a board for this budget.

 

[steved54321]

Crashman: Please read my first response on THIS page. Gigabyte does NOT produce a board for this budget.

UD3 then.

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]steved54321[/nom]UD3 then.[/citation]UD4 perhaps?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/p67-motherboard-roundup-lga-1155-sandy-bridge,2837-12.html
Bang. Done. Gigabyte doesn't produce anything for the $200-250 market. Shocking but true.

 

[apache_lives]

[citation][nom]spectrewind[/nom]I'm waiting to see benchies on Z68 before buying anything.Currently have my eyes on the "z68x-ud7-b3" (future release) to see how it compares to P67(any).One piece of advice I have for anyone building a gaming rig: Do NOT try to save money, economically, on your selection of motherboard. If you need to cut dollars/corners somewhere in cost, your motherboard is *NOT* the place to do it. -Your will regret doing this.[/citation]

Already have Z68 benchmarks - google "Z68 PREVIEW" - its done by toms here

Z68 is just the feature set really, rather then performance increase - the only real difference i can see is SSD caching which is utterly useless anyhow.

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]apache_lives[/nom]Already have Z68 benchmarks - google "Z68 PREVIEW" - its done by toms here Z68 is just the feature set really, rather then performance increase - the only real difference i can see is SSD caching which is utterly useless anyhow.[/citation]That's because you're not looking. The real performance boost is from Quick Sync.

 

[peu123]

Could they use uglier colors for all these board? pfffffffff

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Nothing against any of the boards in the review but I don't see myself thinking "Oooh I need to spend an extra $70 or so above the P8P67 Pro (includes $20 newegg combo discount w/ CPU) to get the Deluxe but $20 more for the NF200, x16 x16 GFX and the WS Revolution is just more than I am willing to spend."

 

[ammar711]

why Did they make a Review on both ASUS P8P67 Deluxe & P8P67 Evo while they have almost the same features?? Hope if u can a review on ASUS ASUS Sabertooth P67

 

[Tw33kR]

Super excited when I saw the title, but no Gigabyte P67A-UD7 / -UD5, Asus Maximus 4 Extreme or the P8P67 WS Revolution (even though it's supposedly a workstation board) where that x16, x16 will likely benefit eyefinity / surround users? Methinks they fit the 'high-end' title?

 

[tommydyhr]

Is there any way to disable that fugly background in the bios? :/

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]ammar711[/nom]why Did they make a Review on both ASUS P8P67 Deluxe & P8P67 Evo while they have almost the same features?? Hope if u can a review on ASUS ASUS Sabertooth P67[/citation]These are the boards Asus wanted in the comparison. Usually, that decision is a value play.[citation][nom]Tw33kR[/nom]Super excited when I saw the title, but no Gigabyte P67A-UD7 / -UD5, Asus Maximus 4 Extreme or the P8P67 WS Revolution (even though it's supposedly a workstation board) where that x16, x16 will likely benefit eyefinity / surround users? Methinks they fit the 'high-end' title?[/citation]No, those are all way higher than high-end. The next price range above $250 is "extreme", which is why you see "extreme" in some of the titles.[citation][nom]tommydyhr[/nom]Is there any way to disable that fugly background in the bios?[/citation]Buy the P67 Extreme6 instead?

 

[11796pcs]

I would like to see what the consequences would be of buying a more mid-range $100 P67 motherboard vs. these beasts. What would you really lose? They don't include the NF200 chipset but would Crossfire support still be good even with cards like the 6970?

 

[preolt]

[citation][nom]Crashman[/nom]Please tell Gigabyte to produce something for this market![/citation]

They do.. The UD4 and UD5 they are both awesome mobos that hold up to the competition. They're only down fall is they do not have EUFI BIOs yet. The UD7 is arguably the best p67 mobo available to date. Beating out MSI's Big Bang Marshall by a long shot and in my mind beats out the Maximus Extreme because it price cuts it by $60. These are all opinions and should be read as such, but I should note that I make a list of logical pros and cons to decide what I believe to be the best value.

I am off topic now but if your wondering why TH didnt review a mobo from Gigabyte it is probably because Gigabyte just decided not to send them one when TH requested it. Hope some of my nonsense helped you

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]preolt[/nom]They do.. The UD4 and UD5 they are both awesome mobos that hold up to the competition. They're only down fall is they do not have EUFI BIOs yet. The UD7 is arguably the best p67 mobo available to date. Beating out MSI's Big Bang Marshall by a long shot and in my mind beats out the Maximus Extreme because it price cuts it by $60. These are all opinions and should be read as such, but I should note that I make a list of logical pros and cons to decide what I believe to be the best value.I am off topic now but if your wondering why TH didnt review a mobo from Gigabyte it is probably because Gigabyte just decided not to send them one when TH requested it. Hope some of my nonsense helped you[/citation]Please delete your post, I responded to this same statement three times already. The answer is no, none of these are $200-250 motherboards and the "other answer" is that Tom's Hardware already included the UD4 in the $150-200 motherboard roundup.

If you've nothing to add, quit demanding that I repeat myself.

 

[Mark Heath]

Please delete your post, I responded to this same statement three times already. The answer is no, none of these are $200-250 motherboards and the "other answer" is that Tom's Hardware already included the UD4 in the $150-200 motherboard roundup.

If you've nothing to add, quit demanding that I repeat myself.

When I first saw that you said they didn't have any boards for this price point, it surprised me and I went to Newegg to look up prices and surely enough, there is no Gigabyte board in the specified price range. Why people find that difficult to understand is beyond me

 

[Why_Me]

Asrock is really starting to make a name for itself with decent boards that perform well but don't break the bank. I'm really liking that Asrock extreme6.

 

[jurassic512]

I'm still happy with my P8P67 EVO.