The Battle of the P67 Boards - ASUS vs. Gigabyte at $190
by Ian Cutress on January 20, 2011 4:15 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Gigabyte
- Asus
- P67
Dirt 2
Dirt 2 came to the PC in December 2009, developed by Codemasters with the EGO Engine. Resulting in favourable reviews, we use Dirt 2’s inbuilt benchmark under DirectX 11 to test the hardware. We test two different resolutions at two different quality settings, in single and dual GPU setups.
Metro 2033
Metro 2033 is the Crysis of the DirectX 11 world (or at least until Crysis 2 is released), challenging every system that tries to run it at any high-end settings. Developed by 4A Games and released in March 2010, we use the inbuilt DirectX 11 benchmark to test the hardware.
Conclusions
You cannot really budge any of the boards in their 3D performance. The Gigabyte board technically performs worse than either of the other P67 boards benchmarked, but the differences between them could easily be masked by statistical variance.
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jigglywiggly - Thursday, January 20, 2011 - link
gr8 article and I liked the ending comparison to the asrock board, I'ma get that. Just has so many features.vol7ron - Thursday, January 20, 2011 - link
Can't see getting P67. Waiting on Z67. Hopefully it will be all I ever dreamed ofKaboose - Thursday, January 20, 2011 - link
Z68 they didn't stay with 67 on the "Z" chipset apparently.DanNeely - Friday, January 21, 2011 - link
Possibly since LGA 2011 will also use DMI to connect to the chipset Z68 boards will be sold for both sockets; and presumably some of the more mundane chipsets would be used for server/workstation builds.Etern205 - Friday, January 21, 2011 - link
LGA 2011 will use the X68 which is different than Z68.SB chipsets
Highend: LGA 2011/X68
Mainstream LGA 1155/Z68<--Allows for OCing.
vol7ron - Saturday, January 22, 2011 - link
Yep. It was either a typo or a finger fart :)Still, I'm hoping the processor batches will have improved by then. What I'm hoping for is the CPUs to mature a little bit, to possibly get a little higher BCLK overclock (not looking for much, just closer to the 5Mhz).
DanNeely - Sunday, January 23, 2011 - link
Don't hold your breath. The BCLK limit is most likely due to something on your PCI/PCIEe buses (neither of which are designed for any overclock at all) bombing out; not your CPU.medi01 - Friday, January 21, 2011 - link
Suddenly, paying 150-200$ for a motherboard is OK.After all, it makes Intel CPUs "cheaper".
MrSpadge - Sunday, January 23, 2011 - link
It's been like that for a long time. But personally I never saw the value in expensive motherboards.MrS
medi01 - Monday, January 24, 2011 - link
I don't recall it "being like that" for AMD motherboards.