ASUS 1155 SABERTOOTH P67 REV 3.0 S/L

This is a great P67 motherboard, which I bought for two reasons. First - the TUF armor which provides a clean look and minimizes accidental swiping damage (also something about heat distribution). Second - it comes with UEFI, not BIOS. UEFI is a new spec for motherboards which a replacement for the traditional blue BIOS that we're all so familiar with. UEFI allows for a graphics user interface and the graphical interface that comes with the P67 is pretty good, it also comes with easy overclocking options.

The package comes with a normal motherboard manual and a quickstart manual; the quickstart manual is cursory but I recommend using the actual manual complemented with the quickstart, I needed both. You'll find 2 USB 3.0 slots on the backplate of the motherboard. It also has what I call "uh-oh" LEDs which indicate problems - VGA, Memory and Hard disk LEDs will light up if it has detected a problem with one of the components.

The motherboard also comes with SATA 3 (6GB/s) controllers for newer, faster hard drives.

One thing to note if you're using an old hard drive (I'm using an old Hitachi hard drive which is SATA 2). When I first connected and booted, the hard drive "uh-oh" LED lit up. I thought I might have connected the hard drive to a SATA 3 port, but that wasn't the problem. I had to go into the BIOS... er... UEFI and disable the Marvell controller. What was happening was the Marvell controller was trying to find a SATA 3 hard drive, and it would say "no hard drive detected". After disabling it, the "uh-oh" LED went away and bootup indicated no errors.

Another thing to note! There is no parallel ATA connector. That's one of those wide, flat buses that older optical drives and older hard drives use. Do you remember those? The motherboard does come with extra SATA cables in case you have a hard drive or optical drive that has a SATA slot, but if you don't have any, you'll need to get a newer one.

Further, there is only one PS/2 connector on the back for the mouse/keyboard, so please ensure that you have at least one of those on USB.

For anyone curious, my setup is this P67 Sabertooth, an i7 2600K, a Corsair Hydro H60 water cooler, 8GB GSkill RAM, Corsair 650W Enthusiast V2 PSU, NVidia GTX 580, and to my shame, an old Hitachi 500 GB hard disk.

Got this a little bit less than a month ago and it is FANtastic. The thermal armor, despite all the bad things that have been said about it works perfectly. Those people are just conservative. What it needs is a good airflow. I have purchased CoolerMaster HAF X case and this mobo is so cool in it, I can store milk on it!
But it also has a totally genius design. Both hardware and software-wise.
For those users that are new to computer building and overclocking it has:
a) LED "trouble point" indicators that light up near the device that is not working properly. It might see sort of unnecessary, but trust me, it is a fantastic feature.
b) It has very clear and well written manual with a lot diagrams and pictures for easier navigation through the ports.
c) Ports have basic connector info written PROPERLY! First board I bought there all those pesky AC, Ground, + or - are not stuffed on each other, written using first letters only or not even written at all.

For hardcore people it has
a) Full SLI support (even quad, if you got the money for GTX 590)
b) RAM-OK for open-case extreme overclocking and burnout tests.

And for the most awesome feature of all time now:
The graphical BIOS. This is where I can surely say: genius. It's got 2 modes: advanced and standard. In standard any 8 y.o. kid can overclock without any risk of damaging the system, set a boot device, recovery device, OC ram, distribute power to components or just monitor the system at it's most basic state (helps determine if there is a hardware problem causing the boot crash).
Advanced mode simply lets do ANYTHING to your hardware. It is the most detailed, most User-friendly, most efficient and simply the best overclocking/tweaking interface around. For god sake, it allows you to configure about of volts per OC jump on the processor if you are doing automatic overclocking and then set a ratio of voltage tweak to temperature! It also allows to lock all fans at the highest speed, which is a very useful thing, especially when you can just do it out of the box.
Then there is the thermal radar. The mobo has 12 thermal sensors on it and it comes with totally amazing software that has a really cool UI that shows you not only the sensor's locations but also explains what the sensor is for and tells about the part it is measuring the temperature for.
Did I also mention that dust sweep off the thermal armour is really easy and very fast as well?

If you want the thermal armour to really shine, install a small support fan on it. It decreased the temperature by 8 degrees on avg. My system temperatures are usually a little above room temperature (yeah that thing with milk was an exaggeration), but that is probably since the computer stands next to my room radiator (bad room design). Nevertheless not a single sensor has shown a 50+ temperature yet and I have been using the computer very heavily. I play many videogames and work in Photoshop as well as do a lot of unpacking/packing of archives. And the highest temperature I have see was 50C exactly. And if you don't like the armour you can always remove it.
I could write even more about this awesome board but I think I bored you enough. Just buy it. There might be 1 or 2 boards that are better but they will be slightly better in features, maybe the same in quality but cost 3 times more. This is really the best you can get for your money.

Bought this mobo for a recent computer upgade, am really impressed, the thermal armour works well, although i bought the small fan to aid cooling, asus could have really included this in the box.....

With an O/C'd core i7, 16GB RAM, 285GTX, and SSD the rig is lightning quick, on full load am getting CPU temps of 23 deg - pretty impressive! The box comes with all the stuff you would expect, the sata leads are of good quality with the inbuilt catches to secure them properly.

Overall, very impressed with this board, the graphical BIOS is amazing, and i like the bundled thermal monitoring tools.

Recommended.