Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen 3 Motherboard Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell March 13, 2012 Featured Announcement, Motherboard

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When the 2600k is overclocked to 4.4ghz it delivers a healthy final score of just over 8.5 points. The reference 2600k scores 6.91 points, so we can see it is well worth toggling a single ‘OC tuner' setting!

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10 comments

david
March 13, 2012 at 12:31 pm

They do make a good mobo. ive always bought ASUS
josephene
March 13, 2012 at 12:32 pm

I went with MSI last time, cant say its been a bad buy, but i wish id gotten one of the new UEFI products. maybe end of year ill upgrade.
Raymond E
March 13, 2012 at 12:35 pm

Well im maybe the only person who thinks this, but they make far too many boards in any given range. I dont know why they just dont stick to 3 boards in every platform.

standard
luxury
extreme

Look at the Z68 range right now, must be 30 boards available. very confusing.
Antonis
March 13, 2012 at 3:17 pm

As an owned of this mobo i can vouch for its brilliant performance and bios. I have no experience in overclocking but using the auto tuning feature paired with a 2500k i have achieved 4.630gz though i am using the Corsair Hydro H60 cooler. The temperatures while gaming are amazingly low. The weird thing is that the mobo reaches about 28 degrees Celsius and the cpu around 26.

As this is the first rig i have ever built i’m glad i didnt opt for any other mobo within that price range.
Jim
March 15, 2012 at 6:08 pm

Just built a new computer with this motherboard. So far no problems. Works great. The Intel SRT technology is great.