Thoughts on mother board

[NETHAAL]

HI all

Just wondering what your thoughts on the P8P67 motherboard are???
Got 1 today and just wondering how it preforms

[StarBound]

Its a socket 1155 board. It should be better than the H67 board and better than the H61 by far. However saying it is simply a P8P67 board leaves to wonder if it is Gigabyte, MSI, ect. My guess though would be it is ASUS. Tell me if I am wrong?

The only thing lacking from the board is it might not support the new ivy bridge 22nm cpus. For that you might need a Z77 chipset.

[NETHAAL]

Its an asus board and my first intel board, its 1 hell of an upgrade from what im running at the moment, dont have much intrest in ivy brigde for this board because its probaly gonna land up in my DL server

[Stuart]

leaves to wonder if it is Gigabyte, MSI,

Gigabyte P8P67?

[NETHAAL]

No its an Asus P8P67 EVO

[StarBound]

Well most boards perform similarly. Usually a 2-5% difference when running the same cpu/ram at the same timings ect when using number benchmarks but games tend to lean to 1-2%.

So what CPU, ram and graphics card are you slapping into that thing?

[NETHAAL]

Im looking at an I3 2120 with 16GB of corsair vengence 1600 ram with the nvidia GTX 560 TI

[StarBound]

I dont suppose there is any way to convince you to drop to 8GB ram with an i5 instead?

Ram is cheap but you wont find a difference between 16GB and 8GB unless your planning to use a RAMdrive for faster temporery copy and pasting. With an i5 you would see the difference much easier.

[Mickzter97]

agreed...i have used an i3 and an i5, the difference is quite noticeable.

[THE_STIG]

I dont suppose there is any way to convince you to drop to 8GB ram with an i5 instead?

Ram is cheap but you wont find a difference between 16GB and 8GB unless your planning to use a RAMdrive for faster temporery copy and pasting. With an i5 you would see the difference much easier.

Yep, save a bit on the ram and go i5.....you will kick yourself if you dont