Is anyone actualy keeping their P8P67 board?

Since the issues are only supposed to appear in ~5% of boards after a 3 year timespan.

I can't imagine anyone experiencing issues yet...
 
I think most users are issue free at the moment, but I doubt it. Two ports just can't cut. Most DVD or blu-ray drives are sata so when you add up sata port 1 for OS drive and sata port 2 for Storage, the rest of the ports are a ticking time bomb for devices connected to them. Reliability is too important.
 
Ender.Wiggin said:
Are there any users out there issue-free and happy enough to actually keep their P8P67 board?
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Yes.

The only reason i would not keep my P8P67 Pro would be a possible upgrade to the WS Revolution for proper/fullspeed SLI support in the future. Regarding the SATA problem, i'm not using the affected ports anyway, may not even exchange my board in April.
 
If you are referring to the SATA issue, many people are fully aware of the issue are still trying to buy boards, that should say something. If you fully understand the current situation, not wanting to the keep your board simply due to the SATA issue, without any regard to how it affects you, is quite an irrational and knee jerk response in my opinion.
 
I bought two asus boards because I knew they'd accept no receipt exchanges for new ones. I'll probably exchange them both at some point. Intel is paying for it anyways. Had I been able to find the H67 board for a discount, I may have kept it, but I had to buy it for retail price on ebay, so may as well exchange it. The extra SATA port would come in handy, though it's not absolutely necessary, it means no backup movie drive without running on the defective ports. Either that or hooking the DVD up to that, but I'll be using that quite a bit too.
 
I'm using 4 drives on all four affected sata2 ports and haven't had any problems yet (knock on wood). I have one drive on the SATA3 port, a DVD burner. When I can be bothered, maybe I'll switch the Windows XP and 7 (C: and D: drive) dual boot drives with the burner, over to the 6 gb ports...
 
I probably won't be exchanging it in April. It's just too much of a hassle to switch out a motherboard with a non-modular PSU.
 
i just looked up a p8p67 pro on ebay for shits and giggles and there is only one up with 19 bids at $300 with 18 hours left. If I had a spare computer I'd sell mine in a second.
 
Honestly if I had been able to purchase before this went down I would keep it and see what happens. if the ports burn they burn. thats why they make pcie sata expansion cards.
 
Why would anyone keep it long-term when you get a free cross-shipped board from Asus in late spring? For resale value alone it's worth the hassle of swapping out the board. But I'm sure most everyone who already has it installed is keeping it until they can replace it, if that's what you meant.
 
moussaka said:
i just looked up a p8p67 pro on ebay for shits and giggles and there is only one up with 19 bids at $300 with 18 hours left. If I had a spare computer I'd sell mine in a second.
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If you do sell it, you must list all relevant recall information or the buyer can screw you through paypal
 
i will most likely do exchange so i can actually sell this mobo when i'm upgrading in few yrs
 
I am running my Asus P67 Pro on the Sata 2 Ports from the day I built it. No issues the computer has been running at 4.5 and been up for 10 days now without a reboot. Been stable the whole time. I may trade in when the boards become available. I am only reluctant to do this becuase I may end up with a less stable board than the one I got now.
 
Just moved drives around to avoid using the sata 3gbps ports and I'm now having issues with the onboard NIC dropping connection under high network loads (pulling 300gb of data of backed up data off my NAS). Maybe it's a cable issue, but never had problems sustaining 85-95mb/s to my raid1 500gb pair. Choked every few mins with the new 1tb raid1 pair after enabling the marvell controller for my windows SSD. So yeah, I will be getting an upgraded board!
 
Cholula said:
I am running my Asus P67 Pro on the Sata 2 Ports from the day I built it. No issues the computer has been running at 4.5 and been up for 10 days now without a reboot. Been stable the whole time. I may trade in when the boards become available. I am only reluctant to do this becuase I may end up with a less stable board than the one I got now.
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Just do some stress testing on both boards. When it gets close to cross shipment time (before you receive the new board), you may want to raise the PCH voltage up a tad to 1.1v and do some HD image copying to do some more stress tests to make sure your board is still stable. Then when you get the new board cross shipped, just swap out the new board, and test the new one extensively, while you have both boards available. That way, if the new one is a lemon, you can return that and take things from there.
 
I just verified my Raid array that's on my Sata 3G ports. So far so good. I'm definitely going to replace it through Asus though when they make the new ones available. After my new one, I plan on sticking with it.
 
No real issues yet. I did decide to go ahead and use ports 1, 2 (RAID C:) and 7,8 (Secondary Drives). I'm going to run an esata to sata cable through the back of my case to hook up my optical drives. I will exchange through Newegg when the others are available.
 
I am. 4 good sata ports is good enough for the forseeable future. If I can talk newegg or asus into cross shipping a replacement when they come ailable I will switch otherwise I woul rather just keep my rig going.
 
I was going to reurn my bundle to MC but I am going to keep it.
 
moussaka said:
i just looked up a p8p67 pro on ebay for shits and giggles and there is only one up with 19 bids at $300 with 18 hours left. If I had a spare computer I'd sell mine in a second.
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The seller is also willing to ship over seas. That drives the prices through the roof. $300 is still a good deal in some areas.
 
Actually I was just curious if you are planning on keeping it regardless of the RMA, as I am planning on doing since I only have one HDD and one optical drive, they are both on the 6G ports, and now thanks to Steam and being able to install Windows 7 via a flash drive, I don't even use my DVD drive anymore.
 
Forceman said:
Why would anyone keep it long-term when you get a free cross-shipped board from Asus in late spring? For resale value alone it's worth the hassle of swapping out the board. But I'm sure most everyone who already has it installed is keeping it until they can replace it, if that's what you meant.
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That's what I'm thinking.
 
Laziness, mine works fine, there is nothing wrong with 90% of the board, and dismantling my system is more work than I want to do considering the potential issue. If I never use the 3G ports, my revision board is as good as the new ones coming in April.
 
I too am lazy and would rather not swap mobos, but I want a fully functioning mobo down the road...ether for a second or third system or to give away. And who knows, I might find a reason to use those other four ports (but I doubt that). I'm going to get what I paid for. I'm not,however, going to freak out over the issue. :)
 
AQ_OC said:
I too am lazy and would rather not swap mobos, but I want a fully functioning mobo down the road...ether for a second or third system or to give away. And who knows, I might find a reason to use those other four ports (but I doubt that). I'm going to get what I paid for. I'm not,however, going to freak out over the issue. :)
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Initially I did freak out. However since I live next to MC I will wait patiently and simply exchange my mobo when it is time.
 
I didn't say earlier that I'm not using a P8P but rather a UD5. but I have 4 drives connected to all four sata2 ports with no problems at the moment. I did set PCH to 1.00v...but I'll swap the board after newegg does an advance RMA...
 
Definitely going to have it replaced just to make sure everything is running the way it should be.
 
I'm running Raid 0 plus two other sata drives so I'll need a new board when they are available. P8P67 Deluxe.
 
dad604 said:
I would keep mine except that the lan is dead too.
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Fixed.

If you have a P67 board I'd advise replacing it as soon as options to do so are available. The problem may not effect you right now but you never know. Down the line it very well could should you decide to alter the configuration of your machine. Besides there isn't much point in keeping hardware that doesn't work right when you have a way to replace it for little to no money out of pocket.
 
There is no guarantee that the replacement board will operate as well as the one that is being replaced in a similarly overclocked environment, hence the reluctance to swap so soon. On the other hand, I assume that the option to replace will always be available in case something happens. For those of us using two HDs or less, with the Asus P8P67 Pro, the problem can easily be bypassed based on the number of SATA ports available.

On the third hand (after a trip to Chernobyl) i'm just being lazy. Heh.
 
Menelmarar said:
Since the issues are only supposed to appear in ~5% of boards after a 3 year timespan.

I can't imagine anyone experiencing issues yet...
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I'm already seeing issues.

I've got four 1TB Drives on the affected controller and I'm using them in a RAID0 setup. I'm seeing intermittent slow downs in games where I go from a silky smooth 100+FPs to 1fps with the disk light thrashing like crazy. I'm not talking about particularly intense scenes that would stress the graphics, either...I'm talking about walking down a road in Fallout New Vegas or Oblivion or Rift when I am alone or there are only a few people around. There's no obvious explanation to account for the sudden slow down. It's almost as if the video card stops rendering and it shifts to software rendering like in the 3DMark06 CPU test...

I have to reboot to clear it up because just exiting the game doesn't fix it.

System specs are pretty decent and I'm using a fresh install too so I don't think it's an OS configuration issue or other hardware...

Win7 Home Premium
2600K at 4.8GHz
16GB Corsair DDR3 (XMP enabled in BIOS)
MSI P67A-GD65
(2) Corsair Nova 128GB SSDs in RAID0 for OS
(4) WD Caviar Black 1TB Drives in Matrix RAID0 used for all User information and Apps
(2) HD6970s in Xfire
(Only using one of my three 24" Dell LCDs)
 
ScourggeFX said:
On the other hand, I assume that the option to replace will always be available in case something happens.
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Good point, I now wonder how long we can wait to RMA the board. Especially if the guarantee starts with the new board. I wonder if ASUS will announce a final date to RMA these boards.
 
I'm trading mine in because I don't want to limit my market or take a resale ding when I decide to sell the board and move onto the next platform.
 
Ender.Wiggin said:
Good point, I now wonder how long we can wait to RMA the board. Especially if the guarantee starts with the new board. I wonder if ASUS will announce a final date to RMA these boards.
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I have repeatedly read that the RMA period will be of finite duration I suggest everyone begin the process of getting a replacement board as soon as they are announced.
 
If this is correct, then what is stopping me from using my current P67 board for the rest of the year and then RMAing it and getting a fresh board and guarantee?
 
Ender.Wiggin said:
Laziness, mine works fine, there is nothing wrong with 90% of the board, and dismantling my system is more work than I want to do considering the potential issue. If I never use the 3G ports, my revision board is as good as the new ones coming in April.
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Ditto.
 
Ill probably just be keeping my board and not exchanging it.. as right now i'm only using 2 of the sata (6Gb marvel) ports.. the note that was in the box seems to indicate that only the Marvel 6gb are "safe" but i thought both the marvel and intel 6gb ports were considered fine?
 
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