The PCI-e lanes on the P8P67 give Crossfire support. The top lane operates at 16x whilst the lower lane just 4x because its bandwidth is shared with the smaller lanes at the top. We also have 3 PCI lanes for legacy devices. Perhaps those with older soundcards can still continue to use those on this setup.



The P8P67 has a rather large Southbridge heatsink covering the chip. Larger than we have seen on previous ASUS boards. There is no Northbridge on this board or the Deluxe version.



I/O panel provides some top class functionality. We have PS2 ports for keyboard and mouse, SPDIF for digital audio devices, BT GO (Blue LED) for connecting a blue-tooth device to the board/system. This in turn provides similar functionality to that of the iROG on ASUS Extreme boards. With BT GO! we now have an increased feature-set. Overclock from your phone, control media player on your machine, access personal data such as contacts and calendars and even synchronize your phone to your PC. Additionally we have 6 x USB2 ports, 2 x USB3.0 ports, Gigabit LAN provided by Realtek 8111E and audio ports via Realtek ALC892 which supplies "DTS Surround Sensation Ultra PC".