Asus P8P67-I Sandy Bridge Mini ITX

wwischerath said:
From what I can find ITX board prices have been getting lower with more manufacturers producing them. When VIA was it they could charge what they wanted. Now there is Atom, AMD, and Intel boards and over half a dozen companies making them. Prices will drop. Most boards now are $100-125. (for current CPUs and RAM) Cant see that going up. Even with new boards there are still several companies jumping on the wagon for ITX. Competition is a great thing for consumers! Better products and good prices. I have read in this forum several of the quality problems with earlier boards. Now if your board sucks, people will buy the other. Good times ahead
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Exactly.. & the only one thats still 125 is the asus AMD board, & there are no other options.. On the Intel side you can get the ECS for like 70.. Thats not bad at all.
 
i bought my h55n for $105 pretty soon after it came out. i only ever want one video card, and 2 dimm slots, etc, so why pay for a board that has more than i need on it? and if it lets me make a kick-ass super tiny build too, then im totally for it!

the only thing im worried about with these sandy bridge boards, is that the socket is SO CLOSE to the pcie slot. i mean, there are literally not tower coolers that will fit vertically, and only a few that will go horizontally and theyll still be right up against the back of the gpu. then you have low-profile coolers, none of which will fit because they spread out on the sides instead of going up. the only ones that will fit are the H50/70/coolit eco and the stock intel cooler. thats a big problem for people like me who want to make a performance itx rig. i dont understand why they cant put the cpu socket up high, and move all those low-lying caps and nb and sata ports down farther. bah i guess ill be keeping my h55n+axp-140 for a while.
 
ekuest said:
i bought my h55n for $105 pretty soon after it came out. i only ever want one video card, and 2 dimm slots, etc, so why pay for a board that has more than i need on it? and if it lets me make a kick-ass super tiny build too, then im totally for it!



i dont understand why they cant put the cpu socket up high, and move all those low-lying caps and nb and sata ports down farther. bah i guess ill be keeping my h55n+axp-140 for a while.
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For the forst time in my life I am trying intel. I have an atom ITX board on the way for my girls school rig. And I am now in a dilemma. Get H55N around Christmas time, or wait for the sandy bridge.
 
steve_huck513 said:
For the forst time in my life I am trying intel. I have an atom ITX board on the way for my girls school rig. And I am now in a dilemma. Get H55N around Christmas time, or wait for the sandy bridge.
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Welcome to my world, lol. Been sitting here with money, a scratch to itch and new parts just a little bit away. Only thing stopping me is the kicking myself after SB comes out. Almost bought the AMD board, wife asked me to wait a little bit, then bamm-new stuff!
 
Thats a no brainer.. get sandy if you can wait.
h55n is awesome but 1156 is a dead end.. also hope that gigabyte or some other retailer comes up with a winner like the h55n. Although with limits, I think sandy will still be as great an OC platform as the 1156.
 
jeremyshaw said:
why? I thought arrandale and sandy bridge would have an IGP? OSX has supported Intel IGP in the past...?

Or am I way off track, here?
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No, IGP doesn't work with OS X and I doubt that would ever change.

A cheap, $20+ gfx card like the 8400GS can easily solve that, or if you're setting up a gaming rig, the 5770-5870 or Fermi would be excellent choices.
 
going to put one of these new ASUS boards in this build (liquid-cooled so not worried about space for a heatsink):
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1567646
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I like the choice of so-DIMMs over full sized DIMMs
 
I would also love to get an update on this board.
I dont see it yet on the Asus website.

My primary system form factor for my clients builds have been mini-itx for well over a year now. Everyone just seems to love mini-itx in that it offers the power they need for their work, without taking up a lot of desk space.

I have used mainly intel boards since they make a few mini-itx models right now, and they are nice and stable.

Would be interesting to try out a Asus board again, since its been over a year since i bought any asus motherboard due to no longer making ATX systems for my clients.

One thing i would love to know is if this Asus board still has a serial port (rs232) header on the board, since that comes in handy for some of my clients?
 
You can check the manual. If the board is on Asus's website, the manual for it should be downloadable.
 
P67 chipset doesn't support the onboard graphics from the CPU. Since this board has DVI\HDMI ports I would assume the board uses H67 and the website linked in the original post got the board name wrong.
 
interested said:
As i mentioned i dont see this board on the Asus website.

Hopefully it shows up soon.
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At this point the p8p67-i is nothing but a pipe dream spawned by the bad report of 1 website who labeled it as "p8p67-i" instead of "p8h67-i". Of which its manual is available here.
 
bastage said:
At this point the p8p67-i is nothing but a pipe dream spawned by the bad report of 1 website
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I think this may be the case, but check the photos again. Asus and some websites are showing the board with the plain black heatsinks, other reports inc. the photo in the original post have the board with the prettier blue heatsink. Possibly just a change from prototype to production to keep the costs down, but maybe there are two boards? Gigabyte have both P67 & H67 mini-ITX? so perhaps Asus and others wil be doing similar.
 
IanM said:
I think this may be the case, but check the photos again. Asus and some websites are showing the board with the plain black heatsinks, other reports inc. the photo in the original post have the board with the prettier blue heatsink. Possibly just a change from prototype to production to keep the costs down, but maybe there are two boards? Gigabyte have both P67 & H67 mini-ITX? so perhaps Asus and others wil be doing similar.
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They may, but as of yet all the p67 talk from asus is about a board that is clearly an h67 board given the onboard video.. & Yes I noticed the HS difference, but all the other components appear to be identical, so I chocked that up to a prototype to production change.


mariachi76 said:
My link works here. But it is to the h67. There is no P67 yet.
regards
mariachi76
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OK link did not work earlier.. Then again I posted that just before my ISP lost all browser traffic for a bit (though my torrents & starcraft still worked) so it was most likely an error on my end.
 
Thanks guys for the Asus link.

I was searching for the wrong part number, thanks for the correction "P8H67-I"

According to the manual there are not serial/rs232 port headers on this board.
Not to surprising since even the intel H67 board also no longer has this port.
The H57 intel board still has a rs232/serial port header, and i will continue to source that board for my clients that need that port.

I dont mind H67, since my clients value stability above extra OC speeds.

Will be interesting to try one of these boards once my distributors get some supply.
 
If you're really in need of Serial ports, try SIIG's addon cards. We need 3-4 ports per machine for our POSes, and we've been using the low profile four port cards with good success, even in Vista and 7.

Of course one of these days we'll be able to use USB, and will dance on the flaming corpse that is serial ports. that won't happen until USB is replaced though, so...
 
The trick with the serial ports and mITX is that there isn't a PCI slot to be used. I notice SIIG has versions that will go in a PCIe slot. That might work so long as the PCIe slot on these motherboards is OK with the card not being a video card.

I've noticed a few USB to RS232 adapters out there that might work for a person. I guess they wouldn't be as securely mounted, though, since there aren't any screws to hold a USB connection in its port.
 
Yeah I have had good success with USB to serial ports in the past for dealing with Cisco routers when you have to initially configure them, or with troubleshooting. Always something of a concern with it coming out though. More of an issue with laptops, though, as I see it.
 
Looks like the P8H67-I is kind of in the wild. Puget Systems has it listed as their motherboard for their Echo II mITX system. Their Antec ISK 310-150 case looks like it is only designed for using the integrated video, though the back panel still has a half-height slot on it.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/nav/echo/II/customize.php

Hopefully this means the board will start showing up in retail channels.
 
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bastage said:
good fine.. The board should hit newegg next week
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I hope so. Been chomping at the bit to finish my build. Figure a couple of more video cards will get released before it gets finished! Since my laptop is dying and no definite date for the sandy bridge mobos, I had to order another laptop to keep from being internetless.
 
I just got off the phone with ASRock and the H67M-ITX/HT should be at Newegg next week. Asus says that the P8H67I will be out this month.
 
wwischerath said:
I just got off the phone with ASRock and the H67M-ITX/HT should be at Newegg next week. Asus says that the P8H67I will be out this month.
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Thanks for making the calls and letting us know what you found out. I was wondering how much delay we were going to have with these mITX 1155 boards since the ATX and mATX boards seem to get priority from the board manufacturers (particularly since I figure already released boards would get priority for the first B3 Cougar Point chips).

Kind of a tough call for me between the Asus and AsRock boards. The ASRock uses regular size DDR3 memory instead of the SODIMMS in the Asus, but I don't have any spare DDR3 memory at the moment and their costs are similar. The Asus has a USB3 header on the motherboard that I may be able to direct to the front USB headers in some mITX cases (may be tricky though). Both have Wireless N. The AsRock manual lists theirs as only the 2.4 GHz variety while the Asus manual does not give any details at all about their Wireless N (should probably assume that it is only 2.4 GHz as well I guess). Really wish there was an onboard version that did 5 GHz wireless N as my current apartment complex is ridiculous for the 2.4 GHz channels yet 5 GHz is totally open.
 
the ASRock also has a USB 3.0 header. (I read the owners manual) I think the Asus wireless is also 2.4Ghz. Only real difference is that the Asus board has Bluetooth. I believe that ASRock is a division of Asus, so I will likely use whichever one is available at the same time as my money. And payday is Fri. So bet is on the first one out.
If you really need 5Ghz, replacement wifi boards are available, but you are going to have to add another antenna as I think they use 3 antennas instead of 2.
 
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