ASUS P8H67-M PRO/CSM LGA 1155 Corporate Stable Model Intel H67 DDR3 1333 Micro ATX Motherboard
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- The Intel H67 chipset supporting the 2nd Generation Intel Core i7/Core i5/Core i3 Processors.
- ASUS offers this platform-leading solution with the exclusive Dual Intelligent Processor.
- Dual Gb LAN featuring the latest Intel and Realtek Chipsets.
- Anti-Surge Protection-Safeguard your device by providing voltage protection.
- EPU – System Level Energy Saving & Real-time Power Management for Superb Platform Power Efficiency
ASUS’ ground breaking EFI BIOS simplifies platform settings for users with an EZ tuning mode, while offering advanced users an easy to use graphical interface that offers unparalleled performance enhancement options
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ASUS P8H67-M PRO/CSM
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An extremely stable not for CPU overclocking socket 1155 motherboard,
I have to say this micro ATX motherboard has a lot of features. Take for instance it has a single channel of EIDE good for two devices plus 6 SATA ports. Two of the ports are SATA 3 with the other four being SATA 2 and can be configured for RAID. In the back there are two USB 3 as well as four USB 2 ports. On the motherboard itself there are five headers that provides a total of 10 additional USB2 ports as well as a series and parallel printer port in the form of a header. But to use these you have to buy the optional connectors. Being a micro ATX motherboard there are only four slots for add-ons and they are starting at the top, a 16 X PCI express version 2 slot for a video card, two PCI slots and on the bottom there is a 4X PCI express version 2 slot for a second video card or PCI express device. An onboard eight channel HD audio and gigabit LAN. There are also three fan headers, a four terminal CPU, a second four terminal one for a case fan and a third three terminal one that can be used for the second case fan. The three fans are monitor in the bios for speed and the one with the four terminal can be controlled. This motherboard no longer has any ports for a floppy drive since that device is basically obsolete. The nice feature is it still retained a single channel of EIDE which is ideal in my situation since I can still continue to use my existing EIDE optical drives. Another thing that will become obsolete on future motherboards is the PS-2 ports being used by the mouse and keyboard being replaced by USB ones. This motherboard only has one PS-2 port being label as a combination which is good for you to use either a mouse or keyboard but not both. This is the reason why I have to buy a USB mouse.
After this upgrade and reinstallation of Windows the computer was much more enjoyable to use particularly on video editing and ripping. Since I have the retail version of Windows 7 ultimate, I didn’t have any problem activating Windows. The speed of this thing is phenomenal under most use it’s very hard to actually to pin it at full CPU load. And on most work load, it actually uses less electrical power to run then lesser CPU. This goes to show how they improved efficiency. This motherboard is not very good for overclocking. It came with software that allows minor overclocking. Using this program it was possible to do stable overclocking to 3.5 GHz using the Core i7 2600k. When combined with Turbo, up to 3.9 GHz. Since this computer computer is so fast, for my use it’s not necessary to even consider overclocking but to use the default setting. Using the easy setting in the bios there are three choices: power saving, normal which is the default and stable overclocked setting. One really power saving feature that I really like is the total power shutdown when the computer goes to sleep. When it was set to automatically goes to sleep after a certain amount of time of inactivity, everything shuts down. When that happens the computer go completely silence with only a blinking light on the front panel. Even the power supply fan is shutdown. For me, it’s possible to put this computer to sleep by just pressing the sleep button on my keyboard.
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|All the features I wanted,
I used this motherboard for my new build and as usual, Asus is a top performer. I am not a gamer but still demand performance and this board is a great fit for me. I wanted the next generation in USB and SATA connections for the future so that was part of my decision.
So far, I have not had any dissapointments.
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|H67 not OC-able?,
A lot of internet and forum sources say that this MB is not overclockable; but I use this along with a core i7-2600K and I can overclock to 3.6ghz right now (Turbo Boost is still on), with the RAM at 1400mhz. This board is perfect for someone who doesn’t want to overclock too much, like me. Plus, I like the fact that we can try out the internal graphics.
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