ASUS P8P67-M Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

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Running this board with an i5-2500k, 8GB Mushkin Silverline ram kit, and have overclocked the chip to 4.3ghz 12hr prime-stable at 1.28 vcore. I would have paid extra for the "Pro" model if Ncix would have the most updated picture of the motherboard (rather than rely on the disclaimer "Actual product may not be exactly as shown"). Another major online retailer does a better job with current product pictures. I'm quite picky about having staggered placement of dual channel ram slots.

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Purchased this board to do some mild overclocking with a 2600k for my htpc.Bios is horrible, should not have been released in it's current state. Incompatible with several kits of ram I've tested, BSOD on windows 7 install, even WITH ram on the QVL.Board then acted dead, upon return to the store and testing by the tech, the board made a loud pop, as if it freed itself from some form of power lock. Board then posted and I decided to take a chance on keeping it, as matx options are limited. Mistake.Nothing works properly. My ocz vertex2 flakes out every other reboot. Downclocked the ram to 1066 and it completed a Win7 install but was massively unstable. Any increase in the cpu ratio causes a hard lock (even 35x from stock 34x!) which then required a battery pull to be able to post, after 5 minutes of it power-cycling on it's own.This board should NOT have been released. The bios is a catastrophe. At best it's an flaky h67 board. The reason I chose p67 was to overclock. This board is unable to even cope with stock or BELOW stock settings.Maybe after a badly needed bios revision it may yeild better results, but the behavior of the board itself leaves me wondering if it's also defective.It looks cheap, feels cheap, isn't useable, and even though the price is low, wouldnt be worth the money even if it was functioning as it should. Ive since purchased the p8p67-m PRO version of this board and it's doing a bit better. Its Bios is still sketchy (when pushing an unstable overclock windows bsod's and the board wont post for a good 5 minutes) and have noticed other little annoyances with it, but I'm holding my breath that it just needs some bios maturation.For $25 more, the PRO is a vastly superior mATX board. I dont even know what asus was trying to do with the non-pro version of the board. It shouldnt even exist, especially at the $130 price point. Useless product.