The ASUS P8P67 Deluxe is a very well equipped motherboard based on Intels P67 chipset featuring everything you might want. For example there is USB3.0, SATA3, a digital VRM, EFI BIOS ... Therefore we're very curious about how this thing does in our tests
The P8P67 Deluxe belongs to the high end motherboards regarding ASUS lineup for the upcoming Intel CPUs. Therefore we're really curious what they've done from the layout and design perspective.
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Specifications / Delivery
| CPU | Intel Socket 1155 Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 |
| Chipset | Intel P67 |
| Memory | Dual Channel DDR3, 4 x DIMM, Max. 32 GB DDR3, 2200+/2133/1866/1600/1333/1066/800 Non-ECC,Un-buffered |
| Multi-GPU | ATI CrossFireX NVIDIA SLI |
| Slots | 2 x PCI-Express x16 @ x8/x8 1 x PCI-Express x16 @ x4 2 x PCI-Express 2.0 x1 2x PCI |
| Audio | Realtek ALC888 8-Channel HD Audio Codec |
| Storage | 4 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1) 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD) |
| LAN | 2 x Gigabit LAN |
| Firewire | 2 x 1394a ports (1 via backpanel, 1 via motherboard header) |
| USB | 4 x USB 3.0/2.0 (2 via back panel, 2
via front panel) 12 x USB 2.0/1.1 Connectors (8 via back panel, 4 via motherboard header) |
| Fan connectors | 5 Connectors |
| Forfactor | ATX (30.5cm x 24.4cm) |
| BIOS | Bios (2 x 32 Mb flash ROM, EFI AMI BIOS) |
- Manual
- 1 x ATX I/O bezel
- 2 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s cable
- 4 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s cable
- 2 in 1 Q-connector
- 1 x ASUS Front-Panel USB 3.0 Box
- 1 x SLI bridge
- 1 x Driver CD, Antivirus software, ASUS Update, ASUS Utilities
Regarding the delivery you'll find everything you need. Under certain circumstances you might wish there was an additional SLI or CrossFire bridge in the delivery but the fact that this is an aggressively priced product makes it understandable why they didn't do that.
Features
| EPU | If you activate the EPU this chip monitors all possible voltages and clock speeds and automatically sets them to guarantee an energy efficient operation of you system. |
| TPU | As soon as one activates the TPU this chips monitors all possible voltages and clock speeds using the according software. The difference to the EPU is that TPU will provide as much performance as possible. Therefore it can increase clock speeds and voltages. |
| Digital Power Design | Meanwhile ASUS also provides its boards with digital power designs. Using the the right software, in this case ASUS DIGI+ VRM Utility it is not only possible to adjust voltages whilst being in Windows on can now also control impedances. |
| BT GO! | BT GO! can be classified as a very typical gadget using which it is possbile to for example remote control your PC via your mobile phone. There is also some functionality to synchronize folders in fact one can do quite a lot using BT GO! |
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Layout
Already at a first glance the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe looks very good with it harmonic design. The colors look suite nicely and the different blue tones on a black PCB are calming. The layout itself is well thought and there is for example plenty of space around the CPU socket to install even todays largest CPU coolers.
ASUS provided the P8P67 Deluxe with a 16+2 phase current supply whereas the CPU can rely on 16 phases and the memory gets its own two phases. Furthermore ASUS implemented a digital power design which should emit less electromagnetic radiation than its analogue counterpart. Therefore ASUS claims that the system stability can be enhanced even further, especially during extreme overclocking.
Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the P8P67 Deluxe. Officially supported are DDR3-2200+/2133/1866/1600/1333/1066 with up to 32 GByte capacity. The DIMM-slots are quite close to the CPU socket which might cause some compatibility problems with big coolers especially when you choose to install RAM with big heatspreaders.
Northbridge, Southbridge as well as the current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. The aluminium blocks around the CPU socket are quite big. In fact they are that big that installing big CPU coolers might not be possible in some cases depending on the coolers clamping mechanism.
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Connectors and I/O
Totally ASUS provided the P8P67 Deluxe with eight angled SATA ports which should be enough for any office PC or gaming system. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons. ASUS even thought of a debug display which is very useful if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system.
Totally you'll find five fan header on the P8P67 Deluxe which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU socket as well as at the bottom edge of the mainboard.
Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel ASUS provided the P8P67 Deluxe with a PS2 mouse/keyboard connector, eight USB 2.0/1.1 ports, a firewire port, tow eSATA ports, a bluetooth transmitter/receiver, two gigabit ethernet port, a SPDIF and coaxial optical out as well as an analogue audio panel.
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BIOS
The P8P67 Deluxe has been equipped with a new EFI BIOS which comes with a very comfortable graphical user interface. Generally it feels like from another star using a BIOS with a graphical interface. Especially the entry page looks very nice and even the boot order can be changed via drag and drop. Following you find BIOS-screens regarding basic configuration options as well as overclocking. Nearly standard these days is the possibility to save and load BIOS-Profiles.
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Test setup
Hardware |
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| Motherboard |
- Asus P8P67 Deluxe - Asus P8P67 WS Revolution |
| Processor | Asus 5850 |
| Hard disk | bequiet! Dark Power Pro 1000Watt |
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Futuremark
3DMark11
3DMark 11 is Futuremarks latest benchmark for the entire graphical subsystem. The benchmark uses DirectX 11 and it supports all recent features which can possibly generate high load on a GPU. Therefore you find tessellation, compute shader calculations, divers lighting effects and different depth of filed animations. Following we publish values regarding the performance preset of 3DMark 11.
Total
| 3DMark 11 Total | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 3'705 | 100.62 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 3'682 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
Physic
| 3DMark 11 Physic Score | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 6'294 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 6'188 | 98.32 % |
| more is better | ||
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is able to squeeze nearly everything out of a recent system. Therefore the feature liste is also pretty long: DirectX10, FP16-HDR, motion blur, parallax occlusion mapping, GPU-physics simulation and different shader effects are being used to even make recent high-end systems struggle.
Total
| 3DMark Vantage Total | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 15'749 | 101.31 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 15'546 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
CPU
| 3DMark Vantage CPU | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 17'147 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 17'017 | 99.24 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 1
SiSoft Sandra is a theoretical multi purpose benchmark suite which is able to show differences in CPU architectures. We split the tests with SiSoft Sandra into two parts. Therefore on this page you'll find Arithmetic-, Multimedia- and Cryptography-benchmarks.
Arithmetic Benchmark
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Drystone | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 67.37 GIPS | 100.18 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 67.25 GIPS | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Whetstone | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 49.00 GFLOPS | 100.51 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 48.75 GFLOPS | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
Multimedia
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - Integer | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 120.43 MPixels/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 120.34 MPixels/sec | 99.93 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - floating point[/en | [en]Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 71.21 MPixels/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 71.16 MPixels/sec | 99.93 % |
| more is better | ||
Crytography
| SiSoft Sandra - Crytography | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 6.30 GB/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 6.00 GB/sec | 95.24 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Crytography - SHA 256 | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 550 MB/sec | 101.48 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 542 MB/sec | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 2
At this point we deliver the values regarding Memory Bandwidth, Memory Latency as well as Memory and Cache Access.
Memory bandwidth
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - Integer | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 19.28 GB/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 18.84 GB/sec | 97.72 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - floating point[/en | [en]Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 19.26 GB/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 18.83 GB/sec | 97.77 % |
| more is better | ||
Memory latency]
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory latency | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 64.9 ns | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 68.9 ns | 106.16 % |
| less is better | ||
Memory and cache access
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory and cache access | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 95.73 GB/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 93.45 GB/sec | 97.62% |
| more is better | ||
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Super Pi 1M / 32M / 32M, wPrime
Meanwhile Super Pi even in its latest version has become pretty old. Never the less it is able to show scaling to the clock speed nicely.
Super Pi 1M
| Super Pi 1.5 XS - 1M | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 11.325 sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 11.357 sec | 100.28 % |
| less is better | ||
Super Pi 32M
| Super Pi 1.5 XS - 32M | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 10m 22.473 sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 10m 23.143 sec | 100.11 % |
| less is better | ||
wPrime 32M
wPrime is based on a multithreaded algorithm to calculate the square root to up to 32 billion digits. Therefore it is possible to put 100 percent load on every core or thread and to see differences between architectures.
| wPrime - 32M | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 9.263 sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 9.298 sec | 100.38 % |
| less is better | ||
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Games
Crysis 800 x 600, low details
Crysis is still one of the games which has very high system requirements. Therefore developer Crytek implemented Direct3D-10-API, High-Dynamic-Range-Rendering, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Soft Shadows, Motion Blur, Depth of Field as well as Soft Particles. We test Crysis by using DirectX9 to show CPU-sacaling especially which low resolutions. If we look at the high resolutions we are able to spot that the CPUs influence compared to the graphic card becomes much less important.
| Crysis DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 89.05 fps | 102.76 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 86.66 fps | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
Resident Evil 800 x 600, low details
Resident Evil uses nearly every modern rendering technology: HDR, Hemisphere Lighting, Soft Shadows, Soft Particles, Field- und Motion-Blur oder auch Alpha to Coverage and static Ambient Occlusion. Furthermore Resident Evil 5 has been optimized for multicore architectures and already comes DirectX11 ready. By using the DirectX9 as well as the DirectX10 benchmark we can again show you CPU-scaling with low resolutions and the compared to the CPU overproportional influence of the graphics card at high resolutions.
| Resident Evil DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 166.5 fps | 101.96 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 163.3 fps | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
Street Fighter 4 800 x 600, low details
Street Fighter 4 comes with an extra benchmark version which makes testing you system childrens play. At low resolutions the system requirements are pretty low and we can see CPU-scaling in the results. At high resolution the graphic card becomes more important and the CPUs clock speed has less influence on the fps.
| Street Fighter 4 (800 x 600 low details) | Percent | |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 569.79 fps | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 567.88 fps | 99.66 % |
| more is better | ||
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Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| At a first glance ASUS leaves a good impression with its P8P67 Deluxe. Unfortunately there still are some things which could have been done in a better way. Most importantly there are the cooling blocks which keep the current supply at adequate temperatures. They're simply too big which has the consequence that several high end aircoolers are not compatible with this board. On the other hand the board looks absolutely marvellous. We very much like the color design and to us it very appealing. | - Design | ||
| Layout | + | - | |
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Generally the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe's Layout is well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power- and reset-buttons. Also the debug display is very useful in case you should have issues with a component in your system or the board itself. Furthermore the placement of the PCI-Express x16 slots is also well thought an therefore nothing needs to be criticized at this point. Unfortunately as we already phrased out in the text above there are some issues if you focus on the CPU socket. The aluminium blocks which keep the current converters cool can cause compatibility problems with high end CPU coolers. Another thing is the DIMM slots. They are also very close to the socket. In this case memory which is equipped with big heatspreaders can also collide with big aircoolers. |
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Angled SATA ports
- Power/Reset-Button - Debug Display |
- Space around CPU socket - DIMM slots close to CPU socket | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| Judging this boards performance is a bit difficult because we only have two boards to compare with eachother. Generally we can say that the performance must be on a good level because the board didn't show any performance glitches. But tests of motherboards will show how good the P8P67 Deluxe really is. | |||
| Overclocking | + | - | |
| The ASUS P8P67 Deluxe is very comfortable regarding Overclocking. If you try to get some more performance via the BIOS this is quite simple. One reason for this is the very nice EFI-BIOS. Another is that the BIOS has also been very well structured and it's also forgiving if you chose settings which do not work. Furthermore ASUS delivers the P8P67 Deluxe with their TurboV software. If you use TurboV it automatically finds the highest stable frequency. The software first switches frequencies by increasing the multiplyer. After the system crashed the same procedure starts with the busclock. After another crash TurboV has determined the highest multiplyer and the highest busclock and of course the highest stable CPU clock. | - TurboV | - Very early BIOS, not perfect by now | |
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| Generally we can recommend the P8P67 Deluxe to any gamer or performance enthusiast out there. The board is absolutely stable and shows consistent performance figures. What's also a convincing factor that's the fact, that the delivery comes with a lot of accessories. | -
Gamer-PC - Overclocker-PC |
- Gamer-PC |
The ASUS P8P67 Deluxe can be bought at Brack to a price of CHF 269.- (est. EUR 192.-).
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Author: m.salathe@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch c.ney@ocaholic.ch