May 12 2011 review by bjorn3d

This mobo does not have many improvements over the GA-P67A-UD7-B3 mainboard, besides the new chipset and its features, it's the only board on the market at the launch of the z68 that has an NF200 chip, 3-way SLI and CrossFireX support.

The TouchBIOS is a new feature for those that are afraid to change parameters in the traditional BIOS and for those that are lazy to restart their system to make changes to the BIOS.

Compared To:

Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4, Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7, ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution.

Benchmarks Tested:

3DMark 11, 3DMark Vantage, Cinebench R10, Cinebench R11.5, Crysis Warhead, Just Cause 2, PcMark Vantage, Windows Boot Time.

Test Setup:

• Computer Case : Silverstone Temjin TJ10
• CPU Cooler : Heatblocker Rev 3.0 LGA 1156 CPU Waterblock
• Graphics Card : ASUS ENGTX580 Voltage Tweak Video Cards
• Memory : Patriot Gamer 2 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
• Power Supply : Sapphire PURE 1250W Modular Power Supply
• Processor : Intel Core i7 2600K
• SSD : Zalman SSD0128N1 128GB

Overclocking:

By enabling CPU PLL Overvoltage and using VDroop, an Intel Core i7 2600K was OCed @ 5.2GHz.