I need some quick advice regarding CPU's.

[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).