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Asus P8Z68-V LX Motherboard Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell December 6, 2011 Featured Announcement, Motherboard

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MKV contained high definition content places a high load on a system. The 2600K is a powerful processor however and we didn't experience any performance related concerns with plenty of cycles left over for multitasking.

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14 comments

  1. Thomas
    December 6, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    Yeah, hard to grumble for £90. AMD motherboards are still expensive for their high end processors. always a problem iMO.

  2. Dennis
    December 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    Good cheap board, but I think someone buying a 2600k might spend £40 more. Surprised on the lack of heatsinks, but it looks as if it doesnt effect overall performance which is good to hear.

    I am holding fire on a new system until summer next year, i expect a new range by then,.

  3. junaid
    December 6, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    one silly question why they have diff clips for blue and black ram slots

  4. Benny
    December 6, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    Thanks, been waiting for a review of this for a while. I agree the sata cable deal is bad, two cables? they probably cost 10c to asus. immore interested in the board though for a potential 2500k build.

  5. Ian White
    December 6, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    Yeah, thats unusual, two different clips for the memory? maybe they use left over stock for these boards? not that it really matters.

  6. Ian White
    December 6, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    + meant to add in the last post. i dont mind about the bundle, i have tons of satacables. two is ok for the price. did you use them for the SATA testing? I bought an asrock board earlier this year and they supplied some terrible cables which killed my drive performance (by 100mb/s)

  7. Zardon
    December 6, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    What ASROCK board was that Ian? never had a problem with any cables on ASROCK boards. Yes, used one of the cables they supplied for the PATRIOT drive testing. good quality.

  8. Yorkie
    December 6, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    If I was using this board im afraid id want a huge fan over it at all times, especially when overclocking. there are no heatsinks at all around the CPu socket, and those resistors will get very hot under load.

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