Asus P8P67-M PRO OK for 4.5 on 2500k???

[Gameman]

I have researched this for hours and haven't found a definitive answer regarding this particular board

I hear the REGULAR P8p67-m suks because no vcore adjustment
therefore based on a review or two i read i'm guessing the next one up
the P8P67-M-PRO is doable for 4.0+-4.5ghz when used with a Intel S.B. 2500K??
correct????



- been doing this long enough to figure it out - just concerned whether the two things left with are available on this new EFI thingy??? - (specifically this model??)

mainly vcore adjust and ratio adjust???

personally i think this is b.s. - they should have slight or major oc-ing available across all cpu's and all boards - entry or pro...but hey
they gotta sell you the p67 line right??? - i get it....

not to mention that fsb/bclk - a major player is essentially DEAD

but enough of the bad news

there is A MAJOR bright side

i noticed i can buy a 2500k sandy cpu for 220.00 Canadian which should smoke the old QX9770 at stock performance WHICH STILL RETAILS ON EBAY FOR 2000.00!!!!!!! ((L.O.L.)

I mean 3.3ghz quad core for 200!!!!beautiful!!!

i'm not expecting 4.5 guaranteed or 4.8 like some people get with this especially after that dreaded i3 550 incident last year

i just need some confirmation on this board

(as to whether the vcore is adjustable and the ratio/multi)

THANKS

[PatRaceTin]

any 2xxxK cpus with P67 / Z68 mobo + proper cooling can do 4.5GHz easy

[Gameman]

any 2xxxK cpus with P67 / Z68 mobo + proper cooling can do 4.5GHz easy

EXCELLENT !!!!! i just was hoping to avoid another "Asrock" where you can't adjust nothing honestly or the regular p8p67-m model

Thanks

[Gameman]

this was the one i was looking at from this place
or can i do better???

either way
http://www.cbit.ca/product.php?produ...at=1490&page=2

thanks mate

[Falkentyne]

The M-Pro? You can't do manual vcore adjustments on that either, you MUST use offsets. This is the same as the "M" version, I believe. Avoid both boards if you want to directly set vcore!

[Gameman]

BY OFFSET do you mean like some dfi/gigabyte old boards (eg +.0250) etc or do you mean like this Asrock piece of crap i'm on with no voltage change whatsover???

thanks

i'm not so worried about 4.5ghz (kinda skeptical after my i3 550 experience)
but 3.8-4.0ghz would be nice

[ghost_recon88]

So far I have my 2500K up to 4.8GHz on mine, and yes the offsets for turbo multis are + .004, .008, .012, etc... and there is + and - in case the VID for a certain multi is too high.

[WhiteFireDragon]

why is offset not desirable? for example, isn't 1.20v + 0.05v offset the same as directly setting it to 1.25v? and wouldn't you want it to turbo only when you need the work load instead to save power, instead of being in the overclocked state 100% of the time? not sure why this would be a bad thing for the P8P67-M pro

[Gameman]

if i'm reading it correctly offset sound like the same result - at least it was on my T2Rsb plus (or some voltage change anyway).

however not being able to run all 4 cores in an oc'd state would bother me though
cause then technically the whole cpu isn't oc'd - just one quarter of it???

i wanted full oc full frequency all cores all the time


if it's only capable of 3.8ghz that's fine cause 3.8 is what i got now and it's a decent speed

but the reason i was doing this was to get 4 cores at 3.8 instead of just 2 currently (for encoding, archiving, and multitasking)

the better motherboard would be left until the fall/xmas

i had turbo on my Thuban last year and had no use for it

Thanks

[Gameman]

don't get me wrong i don't hate turbo it's just that i'm old
where an oc meant all the cores supposedly (old fashioned way)

so i have no use for turbo

if the offset allowed for even a SLIGHT voltage increase

then 3.8-4.0ghz would be easy and that with a 4870 and 2 gigs is enough until august

[Gameman]

So far I have my 2500K up to 4.8GHz on mine, and yes the offsets for turbo multis are + .004, .008, .012, etc... and there is + and - in case the VID for a certain multi is too high.

so i take it the two things i asked about in the original post are there (only it's an offset value???)

That should be good enough for 3.8-4.0 anyway

Thanks

you can close the thread now

[dexx]

Did you end up getting a p8p67-m pro? Any good for OC?

[sdsdv10]

Did you end up getting a p8p67-m pro? Any good for OC?

Checking Gameman's profile shows he hasn't logged onto XS since he closed this thread. Might want to try a PM.