ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Review - Know Your SKU
by Ian Cutress on May 12, 2012 8:45 AM EST- Posted in
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- Asus
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Civilization V
Civilization V is a strategy video game that utilizes a significant number of the latest GPU features and software advances. Using the in-game benchmark, we run Civilization V at 2560x1440 with full graphical settings, similar to Ryan in his GPU testing functionality. Results reported by the benchmark are the total number of frames in sixty seconds, which we normalize to frames per second.
The Deluxe comes near top in our Civilization V tests.
Dirt 3
Dirt 3 is a rallying video game and the third in the Dirt series of the Colin McRae Rally series, developed and published by Codemasters. Using the in game benchmark, Dirt 3 is run at 1920x1080 with full graphical settings. Results are reported as the average frame rate across four runs.
Due to the close proximity of all our Dirt 3 results, it is safe to say that the motherboard is never the bottleneck.
Metro2033
Metro2033 is a DX11 benchmark that challenges every system that tries to run it at any high-end settings. Developed by 4A Games and released in March 2010, we use the inbuilt DirectX 11 Frontline benchmark to test the hardware at 1920x1080 with full graphical settings. Results are given as the average frame rate from 10 runs.
The Deluxe takes advantage of its CPU performance to push into the upper echelons of most of our Metro2033 tests.
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lbeyak - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
"The ECS Z77H2-AX and Gigabyte G1. Sniper 3 (both part of future reviews) utilize the PCIe PLX chip for >2 GPUs."Any time frame on when the review containing information on the G1. Sniper 3 will arrive?
Thanks for another good review.
nemt - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
Can you guys do a more thorough analysis of the plethora of other P88Z77-V boards available apart from the standard, Pro and Deluxe?Moogle Stiltzkin - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
Asus Q-Design does thishttp://us.estore.asus.com/index.php?l=product_deta...
Asus SSD quick cache is overlooked....
i'm curious to know what is the difference between this SSD caching vs asus z77 deluxe ssd caching (allows ahci) vs intel raid quick cache ssd.
Imho i would think that the asus mobo is the better deal because the premium comes with an msata already integrated and enough space just for caching. has 4 ssd quick cache ports for 4 hard drives (can work for ahci as well).
and that third pcie 2.0 slot in black, is actually going to be where the thunderbolt add on card will be using. i had to research online to find that out.
karagiosis - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
All graphs on the "Computation Benchmarks" say that they are ordered by "Score" but some of them should read "Time". I don't remember if there where any other errata...IanCutress - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
Updated. Many thanks!Ian
AFQ - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
Dude you take amazing pics. Please share your setup.Awesome and well explained review!
etamin - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
I think I'm missing something. Can someone explain the purpose of this chip to me? Isn't this analogous to NF200 where two GPUs can run in x16 on a board with only 16 native lanes? I thought with PCIe3.0, bandwidths doubled, so is there really a need for such a chip still?IanCutress - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
There are several PLX chips. There is one that acts like the NF200, which increases the PCIe 3.0 lanes to 32 (for x8/x8/x8/x8), and there are others which increase the number of PCIe 2.0 lanes for additional controllers (SATA, NIC). The latter is on this board, the former (the PLX PEX 8747, http://www.plxtech.com/products/expresslane/pex874... is on other boards (Sniper 3, Z77H2-AX) and incurs a bigger cost.Ian
etamin - Friday, May 18, 2012 - link
Thanks for clearing that up. That's a pretty substantial list of chips for lane expansion.ggathagan - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
I'm mystified by the use of the Realtek NIC for LAN testing instead of the Intel NIC.It's generally stated that the Intel NIC is superior.
Were both tested and the Realtek the better performer?
If so, there's been a lot of FUD concerning the Realtek.
The inevitable grammer comment from the 3rd paragraph of page 1:
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