I still like the current crop of Asus boards for the Intel platform, but Gigabyte has made up some ground on the UEFI transition after being way behind previously.
The good news is that USB 3.0 is finally native (4-ports) in the Z77 chipset, so any board based on that platform should have at least some native ports. Z77 supports Sandy and Ivy bridge, so you could stick with your current 2500K if you wish. The P8P67 Pro should have a 3 year warranty and was released in Jan 2011, so you should be able to get it replaced under warranty--and perhaps pick up a bargain basement LGA1155 board in the interim? From there, I'd wait for Haswell. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what? Well, I wanted to upgrade my boot drive from a 160GB Intel to a 512 GB M4.... Bios would not see it. I was running 1305, which has been stable for me since i built this box in early 2011. So, I got the last one, 3602....did the flash. I also swapped out my 1TB WD data drive for a 3TB Seagate (7600rpm). Well, I never got the boot drive swapped, because as soon as I went to the new bios my system started crashing....this has been going on for a couple of months now. Got on the web and found some third-party tools that will let you flash back to an easier bios (asus didn't allow for going back in on this board). So, I flashed back to 2001. Problem is, it still crashes! Have no idea what's going on. No idea what to look at either. I'm not over clocking or anything. There is no pattern I can detect to these crashes. System has gone up to 4 days with no crashes, but will sometimes crash in less time. I'd be lucky if I can finish typing this email. It always seems to crash on me when doing stuff like this, where I can't do an auto save. Any ideas? Maybe I should get a new mobo? Thinking of maybe a Gigabyte this time. I'm running a 2500k. Any reason to upgrade that? I don't know if I can wait til June for the new chips. I'm a desktop guy. Don't really enjoy using a laptop day-after-day. Also, thinking about building a dual boot Hackintosh....just because I'm bored with Windows an am now really super interested in Win8. If a new board, what board? I like to get some features on the board...my current system has crappy usb 3.0, so I want lots of usb 3.0. And BT support for the Hackintosh, if I decide to do that.
