Final thoughts and rating
ASUS knows all too well that differentiating its Sandy Bridge motherboards from the competitions' requires careful thought on features and implementation rather than a myopic focus on straight-line speed.
The £150 P8P67 PRO crams in an excellent array of features on to a well-laid-out board. There's practically everything you could want in a deluxe board, topped off by the one of the better BIOSes we've seen thus far. Performance is solid at stock speeds and the PRO's got enough overclocking wherewithal to push K-series chips over 1GHz past their default speeds.
Readers looking for even more would do well to take a peek at the £185 Deluxe variant, which ships with a second Gigabit port, rear-mounted clear CMOS button, debug LED, and a heftier array of heatsinks.
But we feel very comfortable in recommending the P8P67 PRO as a quality base for a Core i5 2500K or i7 2600K chip, perhaps with dual graphics from either NVIDIA or AMD's mid-range stack thrown in for good measure.
The Good
Thoughtful integration of useful features
UEFI BIOS is nice
Overclocks well with K-series chips
Good layout
The Bad
£150 is still a lot of money for a mid-range P67 board
HEXUS Rating
ASUS P8P67 PRO
HEXUS Awards
ASUS P8P67 PRO
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