I need some quick advice regarding CPU's.

[Troll2k]

All the first run 1155 boards had the Sata issue.The new boards out should have the new chips.Most manufacturers will say B3 on the box or literature.That is the new revision.

As far as I know the only difference between the h67 and the p67 is that the h67 has an integrated video port.No onboard video on the p67.


Note:
If you are looking at an 1155 board I assume you were able to return your other parts.

[sg1221]

I run RoF , CoD black ops , Crysis all maxed settings and have excellent FPS , CoD runs quite well on medium to high settings and I'm sure my video card and the lack of optimisation of the game is the only reason I can't max it too.
I think a whole lot of us have extreme overkill on our processors these days and
CoD has barely used the cores we have.
So you should be fine either way

sg

[danjama]

Originally Posted by Troll2k

All the first run 1155 boards had the Sata issue.The new boards out should have the new chips.Most manufacturers will say B3 on the box or literature.That is the new revision.

As far as I know the only difference between the h67 and the p67 is that the h67 has an integrated video port.No onboard video on the p67.


Note:
If you are looking at an 1155 board I assume you were able to return your other parts.

Ok mate thanks for clarification! Yes, items have been returned, they were ok with the box being opened, just waiting for refund of cash. Browsing for parts in the meantime - really would like a 1155 motherboard with 4 memory slots, 2 pcie x16 slots, and vitally a firewire port at the rear IO. Firewire is hard to find these days. Happily, the 2500k is pretty cheap, a real bargain, as is Ram ( Corsair £32 at oc.co.uk right now).

[danjama]

Originally Posted by sg1221

I think a whole lot of us have extreme overkill on our processors these days and
CoD has barely used the cores we have.
sg

Seems about right, we all want more than we need!

[patrat1]

Originally Posted by danjama

Can anyone advise me of the difference between the H67 and P67 ii55 motherboards? Did the H67 boards have the disintegrating Sata port issue?

you need a p67 board if your going to over clock.

which you will, since its childs play to do it with a i5 2500k.

im running mine at 4.5 ghz with the stock cooler. of course my case is loaded with huge fans, so for now im getting by with stock cooling. when the hot weather hits, i may have to get a better cooler or tone down my OC.

[garengarch]

Originally Posted by patrat1

you need a p67 board if your going to over clock.

which you will, since its childs play to do it with a i5 2500k.

im running mine at 4.5 ghz with the stock cooler. of course my case is loaded with huge fans, so for now im getting by with stock cooling. when the hot weather hits, i may have to get a better cooler or tone down my OC.

really? mine hit 97 degrees with the stock cooler @ 4.32 ghz.
that was auto overclock.
turbo is now disabled until better cooler arrives heh

[patrat1]

the hottest mines got so far is 68 degrees C im using the auto OC also.

97 C is way to hot imo.

[Troll2k]

Make sure you read the fine print on the PCI-E x16 slots.Most boards allow you to put a card in any of the x16 slots and get the full bandwidth.However when you go Crossfire or SLI it is usually x8 in both slots.There are some very expensive motherboards that will do x16 and x8 with 2 cards.

Most Asus p67 boards have a rear IEEE 1394 port(Firewire).

Originally Posted by danjama

Can anyone advise me of the difference between the H67 and P67 ii55 motherboards? Did the H67 boards have the disintegrating Sata port issue?

H67 allow use of the 2500~2600 CPU integrated graphics, P67 does not.

B3-revision boards have fixed SATA chips.