Asus P8Z77-V Pro Motherboard
review by
snipekill2445
A while ago I upgraded from AMD to an Intel 3570K. I wanted a board that offered the latest features, ease of use and great overclocking features, I chose the Asus LGA1155 P8Z77-V Pro.
The board came well packaged and comes with lots of accessories, from which all I used were the Sata cables and Wireless antenna, that screws to the board and is accessed via the rear I/O.
It's a standard size ATX board, so it will fit in almost any mid tower and full tower cases, given that they have 7 expansion slots.
I love the touch UEFI on this motherboard. It was extremely easy to work with and to find all the important settings. Overclocking was as simple as raising the multiplier and upping voltage.
This board uses a 12+4 VRM Power delivery setup, being cooled by blue heatsinks. There is a 8pin EATX power connector near the top right of the board, with the 24pin ATX connector along the middle right hand side. This board has six 4pin PWM fan connectors, two of which for the processor cooler fans. There are two internal USB 3.0 headers, one on the right under the 24pin, and another down bottom along with standard front panel audio, USB 2.0 ports and a front panel header.
There are 4DIMM slots in the standard location to the right of the processor socket. Colored in blue and black, supporting upto 32gb of DDR3 memory in duel channel, at 2600mhz or lower.
For expansion slots we have two PCI-E 3.0 slots (running in 16x or dual 8x), one PCI-E 16x slot (4x mode), two PCI-E 1x slots and two PCI slots. This gives ample support for multi-gpu setups, with RAID cards or sounds cards.
We have four Sata 3gbps ports, two Sata 6gbps ports controlled by the Intel chipset, and two Sata 6gbps ports via the Asmedia controller.
There are some very cool tools implemented on this board, including:
- Asus TPU
- Asus EPU
- USB BIOS Flashback
- MemOK!
- AI Suite II
- Ai Charger+
- USB Charger+
- Anti-Surge
- ASUS UEFI BIOS EZ Mode featuring friendly graphics user interface
- Network iControl
- USB 3.0 Boost
- Disk Unlocker
The colour scheme is a nice black PCB, with blue accents throughout the board, looking very sharp.
I like this board alot. I've done everything I've needed to with it, be that overclocking the processor or memory, or updating the UEFI. As with all Intel boards, I much prefer Sata port implementation on AMD based motherboards, they're far more simple, with no need for unnecessary complicated controllers. I have to give Asus props for their UEFI, it's wonderful to use, a huge upgrade vs BIOS.
In any case if you were in the market for a decent high end LGA 1155 motherboard with tons of features and support for high overclocking, this is a board I'd happily recommend.
Pros | Cons |
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Quality Product, PCI Express 3.0, VRM Cooling, Overclocking, Ease of use | Green power LED always lit, Price |
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