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AsRock P67 PRO3 SE vs AsRock P67 PRO3

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Hello,

im looking to upgrade my h77 board to a board that supports changing the multiplier as I want to squeze as much as i can out of my i7-2600. On eBay i found AsRock P67 PRO3 SE for cheap, but I cannot find any info on what is its difference to the AsRock P67 PRO3. Does anyone have any info?

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9 minutes ago, IoWii said:

Hello,

im looking to upgrade my h77 board to a board that supports changing the multiplier as I want to squeze as much as i can out of my i7-2600. On eBay i found AsRock P67 PRO3 SE for cheap, but I cannot find any info on what is its difference to the AsRock P67 PRO3. Does anyone have any info?

If you look at AsRock's product pages for both boards, the differences become very apparent. The SE is a basic low end board with a 4-phase VRM and the PCB is narrow, the Pro 3 is full ATX size and has an 8+2 phase VRM with bigger heatsinks to go along with it. However, the Pro3 does not support CrossFire while the SE does.

 

Since your CPU is locked though, the differences probably won't matter as much. You're not going to be able to change the multiplier much, you'll probably only be able to get a 400MHz OC out of the chip before the board stops allowing you to adjust it higher. That'll allow you to go from 3.5GHz all-core to 3.9GHz all-core, and with a 5MHz BCLK overclock, you could get up to almost 4.1GHz assuming everything else stays stable..

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Just now, TheSLSAMG said:

If you look at AsRock's product pages for both boards, the differences become very apparent. The SE is a basic low end board with a 4-phase VRM and the PCB is narrow, the Pro 3 is full ATX size and has a much beefier VRM with bigger heatsinks to go along with it. However, the Pro3 does not support CrossFire while the SE does.

 

Since your CPU is locked though, the differences probably won't matter as much. You're not going to be able to change the multiplier much, you'll probably only be able to get a 400MHz OC out of the chip before the board stops allowing you to adjust it higher. That'll allow you to go from 3.5GHz all-core to 3.9GHz all-core, and with a 5MHz BCLK overclock, you could get up to almost 4.1GHz assuming everything else stays stable..

Yes that is what im planning to do, 400MHz OC and a bit od BCLK. Would the SE board be good enough for that?

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3 minutes ago, IoWii said:

Yes that is what im planning to do, 400MHz OC and a bit od BCLK. Would the SE board be good enough for that?

It's kind of a basic board but it will probably do fine enough for what you're looking to do. It's hard to know because there's not a lot out there about the board.

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1 minute ago, TheSLSAMG said:

It's kind of a basic board but it will probably do fine enough for what you're looking to do. It's hard to know because there's not a lot out there about the board.

Thanks for the help, its 40$ cheaper than other boards and i get an i5-3470 with it so I will pull the trigger. Thanks for your help!

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