ASUS P8Z68-V PRO Review: Our First Z68 Motherboard

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• AnnihilatorX - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Short answer, no...

• mczak - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  IMHO doesn't make a whole lot of sense overclocking the IGP but not the memory. The IGP could potentially benefit quite a bit.

• Markstar - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Great review - makes me wish Anandtech had more of these (along with reviews low-capacity SSDs). :p

• Shadowmaster625 - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  You guys need to stop giving Asus a free pass on their horrible website that you cant even download drivers from. And their horrible bios flashing tools that do not work. Never ever buy asus.

• sor - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  I'm actually kind of pissed at them myself. my P8P67Pro is a good board, but it has problems with SAS cards. They updated the BIOS to fix some compatibility issues, but my LSI card still does not work. It's a pretty well documented issue, and I think it's sort of ridiculous. I will consider buying a new Z68 of a different brand so I can use my LSI card if they don't have a BIOS fix soon.
  
  I didn't have any trouble flashing to the latest ASUS BIOS with a DOS boot cd.

• The_Assimilator - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  You're using a piece of server hardware in a desktop board and you don't understand why it doesn't work? Did you perhaps think about that, or about verifying compatibility between the board and the card before purchasing?
  
  Don't blame the manufacturer for your own ignorance.

• sor - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Give me a break. That's the most ridiculous comment I've heard in a long while. You're the one showing your ignorance now.

• sor - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Sorry, I can't let this go. I'm not sure why you decided to take an antagonstic tone, but apparently hardware is mysterious to you? What makes you think this is a server part? What makes you think it's unreasonable to believe that a card that adheres to the PCIe standard should be able to work in a PCIe slot? Why is it unreasonable to think that a card that worked in an old P35 desktop and my wife's older Q965 should work in my new P67 desktop? I can only imagine you read "SAS" and thought "ooh scary, that's the shiny server stuff, what is this guy thinking? I need to belittle him". Nevermind that they make windows XP drivers for it. Nevermind that I've installed over 300 LSI SAS cards in various hardware over the last year at work.
  
  Compatibility lists are not exhaustive, and are usually 6-12 months out of date. I still maintain that it's a reasonable expectation that a PCIe card shipping with desktop OS drivers, that works in every other motherboard I can get a hold of, should work in the PCIe slot of my new motherboard, and if not, it's the motherboard's fault.

• L. - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link

  I would say, let's blame the manufacturers ... So many inconsistencies should not be tolerated, like for example some sticks not working on some boards etc.. or ridiculous PCB design leading to not being able to put a 'standard' modern cooler / ridiculous cooler design the other way around etc. etc.

• Pneumothorax - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link

  Does overclocking the IGP help Quicksync speeds? I don't think I've seen testing done on this so far.