 Now I've looked at a fair number of P67 and H67 Sandy Bridge ready motherboards over the last little while But I haven't looked at many M-ATX ones. So this is a reasonably high-performance looking M-ATX P67 motherboard supporting all the latest Intel LGA 1155 CPUs that is core i3s core i5s and core i7s. It is a P67 chipset motherboard, which means that it does not support the onboard video of these CPUs, but it does support their Unlocked performance of the k-series processor so you can overclock k-series chips on this board We've got their epu chip which is for energy saving. We've got SATA 3 6 gigabit per second. We've got USB 3.0 UEFI Graphical BIOS and I think that's pretty much all they've got to say for themselves on the front Let's see what ASUS has on the back So their TPU which is for more performance, epu which is for energy savings Okay, we've got some other stuff here. What do we got? hmm SATA 3, protect 3.0 Which is basically lower power consumption to protect the environment lower electromagnetic emissions to protect you and Yeah, hold on I'm thinking because I don't see it in here. Yes something about Stabilizing power spikes to protect your motherboard Well, I don't think that's here, but that's what protect the point Oh is ai suite 2 which is their software and the EFI BIOS. Let's have a look at the board Like I said, this looks like a pretty high performance board in terms of what appears to be a pretty high performance package So let's see. We've got our users guide. We've got an ASUS sticker and we've also got an ASUS software DVD So throw that away down the latest from the ASUS website We've got two SATA 3 6 gigabit per second cables both of them right angle and Two SATA 2 3 gigabit per second cables. Those are both right angle as well. Please note other than the color difference There's no difference between those cables. They are both fine So we've got two connectors which are an easier way of plugging in your front panel Connectors as well as your front USB and this is what made me think this is a performance board because they've got their extra foam padding on the IO shield You only really see that you know on on higher performance boards from ASUS It's true. I tell you Alright, we've got their environmentally friendly packaging with only paper good And we've got a motherboard All right, pretty nice looking board overall actually I can say that with confidence right off the bat and you know I'm so happy to see more and more of this all the time PCI Express for one thing and high density of PCI Express slots on MATX board so this board fully supports SLI and Crossfire X so this one runs its okay, you know what I'll get to that later Okay, we've got our 1155 socket Which is compatible like I said with all the latest processors don't try and put an 1156 chip in there. It will not work We've got an 8-pin power connector. We've got some pretty nice looking wave style MOSFET heatsinks around that CPU socket They're nice and low profile though here You can see that from the side so you shouldn't have any trouble with any of your tower heatsinks or whatever kind of heatsink You want to install on here? We've got four sticks of Dual channel DDR3 memory compatibility capability and this is the easy install kind so there's no clip here There's only a clip on this side. Okay, so you just slot the memory in this side Open up the clip slot it in this side clip is shut only one clip But we've got a memo K button which should pretty much ensure that your board will boot with any memory. No problem Okay, we've got their TPU switch. We've got what on earth is this? I don't trust platform module Okay, we've got our 24 pin power connector. We've got hmm Okay, I don't think this is actually an anti surge SATA 6 gigabit per second port I think this is just a SATA 3 6 gigabit per second port and they're talking about the anti surge technology that is part of Protect 3.0. Okay next we have a BIOS chip Then we've got two SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports for SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports a chipset cooler and Finally, we've got our front panel connectors for USB 2.0 front panel headers. We've got a Firewire front panel header Is that really a parallel port? header Fascinating okay And then we've got aha, okay, we're down to the PCI Express slot, so I love it They've killed PCI. So this is a high-end board. No PCI done boom We've got a PCIe 16x slot that runs at full 16x PCIe 1x slot that will be covered as soon as you put your high performance dual slot graphics card in here We've got a PCIe 8x slot so this one only runs at 8x If you put something in it, and then this one will run at 8x as well So it's either 16x or it's 8x 8x so full support for crossfire and SLI Remember PCIe 8x is enough for crossfire and SLI this guy right here only runs at PCIe 4x Actually hold on let me look at this Yes, good. Okay, so this one only runs at PCIe 4x and that one's running off the south bridge Not off the PCIe controller on the CPU So it's lower performance if you are running crossfire SLI use these two slots now What's funny is this board doesn't include an SLI bridge so you may have to buy one, but they are available So don't worry too much about it Remember crossfire bridges come with your video card not with your motherboard. We got two PS two ports one mouse one keyboard We've got two USB 3.0 ports optical audio out. We've got four USB 2.0 ports We've got firewire eSATA and gigabit Ethernet with 7.1 audio to round out this board Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS P8P67M Pro Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos