ASUS P8Z68-V PRO Review: Our First Z68 Motherboard

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• L. - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  IGP Intel = Ouch.
  I believe that if you need multiple displays you'll be far better off waiting for amd llano or the next gen of intel fail-gpu.

• sylar365 - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Right now I am using an Asrock P67 Extreme 4, i5-2500k, OCZ Vertex 2 64GB with Windows and a couple frequently used apps and a WD 640GB Black SATA 2 for bulk storage. I only use one graphics card in the form of a GTX 560 ti and I appreciate it's performance but am in love with it's power usage. As far as I can tell it seems like upgrading to the Z68 platform would not provide much gain in gaming FPS, SSD longevity or overclocking ability. Those issues aside would I see ANY decrease in my monthly electric bill after partially using my CPU's on chip GPU? Even while assuming that I have some disposable income it still seems that jumping from P67 to Z68 would be like throwing money into the wind unless I plan on ... nope, nevermind ... even adding a second 560 ti would be faster on my current board. As far as investments go (for me anyway) making it rain at the local strip club is looking to be a more responsible path than upgrading to Z68.

• AnnihilatorX - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Or if you are like me who hold out onto my B2 P67 until it died 2 weeks ago and get a refund and buy Z68 :P

• Sunsmasher - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Upgrade doesn't make sense for you because you apparently don't do much transcoding....

• L. - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  Like most people ;)
  
  Otherwise, this motherboard looks like a piece of trash for 210 bucks, very limited pciE, etc.. who would want it.
  
  There is a fair chance you will see Z68 boards that are much more convincing.

• Tylanner - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Man would I be upset if I held out for Z68 all these months.
  
  I was expecting an improvement in Multi-GPU Scaling(2-way Sli)

• AnnihilatorX - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  No. Z68 is still limited by number of PCI-E. The main reason is CPU really. You'd have to go for Z79 and Sandybridge-E for higher PCI-e lanes count.

• AnnihilatorX - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Actually disregard me, bandwidth should be sufficient for 2-way SLI

• rbusch - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  On page two if the review it says....
  
  "here are a couple of negative points however - the iGPU frequency requires a reboot after every selection, and the changes you do make to the CPU frequency aren't written to BIOS (and thus aren't permanent) nor are they initialised on reboot, requiring a manual adjust on every boot."
  
  Does this (the CPU bit) differ from the P8P67 PRO board? Am I understanding correctly that any CPU overclock done in windows (as opposed to UEFI) disappears every single time the machine is rebooted?

• rbusch - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  And forgive me if this is a obvious and stupid question but at (nearly) the same price point, would there be any advantages of choosing the P8P67 Pro over the P8Z68-V PRO?
  
  Thanks