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| At a first glance ASUS leaves a good impression with its P8Z77-V
Premium. Once more we very much like the design of this P8-Series
motherboard. The color scheme has a high value of recognition. We also
like the cooling blocks covering PCH, PLX chip and VRM. They are not too
big leaving plenty of space to easily install a big CPU cooler. |
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| Layout |
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Generally the ASUS P8Z77-V Premium's layout is well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power- and reset-buttons. Also the debug display is very useful in case you should have issues with a component in your system or the board itself. Furthermore the placement of the PCI-Express x16 slots is also well thought an therefore nothing needs to be criticized at this point.
Looking at the DIMM slots we see that they are not too close to the CPU socket,
which means that you wont have issues installing a big CPU cooler. What we don't
understand is why ASUS chose to put a small 32 Gigabyte caching SSD on a
high-end motherboard. Users who pay this kind of money are very likely to
already own a high-performance SSD. And if they don't they are very likely to
buy one when the buy this board.
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- Angled SATA connectors
- Power/Reset-Button onboard
- Debug display
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- 32 GB mSATA SSD
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| Performance |
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| Update:
In a retest of the motherboard, which had been conducted on the 28th of
January 2013 with the latest BIOS, we've seen that ASUS has been taking
care of the initial performance issues this board was suffering from. In
our overall performance rating this board now claims 2nd place when it
comes to 3D performance and 1st when we look at 2D performance. It is
astonishing that ASUS succeeded in pushing the overall performance by
about three percent, only by applying BIOS updates.
To take a look at the updated performance results we refer to our
updated
motherboard charts.
The P8Z77-V Premium seems to have some
performance related issues. There is only the CPU performance value in
3DMark Vantage which is really on a highly competitive level. The poor
performance also explains the overall rankings of this board. In this
regard the board can be found once on the forth to last spot and on the
second to last position. Taking power consumption in the equation
doesn't help either. In fact this board really seems to burn the power.
It even sets a new record and therefore ranks last for idle as well as
load power consumption.
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3DMark Vantage CPU |
- Performance in general
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| BIOS / Overclocking |
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| In the overclocking
part the P8Z77-V Premium was a very convincing product. Therefore it's
been childrens play to reach the clock wall of our test CPU. Furthermore
the UEFI BIOS is very easy to use and one can quickly find the settings
needed. These days ASUS makes some of the nicest BIOS not only when it
comes to the structure but also when you look at the design. |
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- Well structured BIOS
- UEFI-BIOS |
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Recommendation |
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| If you
want to build a high end comptuer or gaming system, which is based on a
new Ivy Bridge CPU then the ASUS P8Z77-V Premium is a very good choice. |
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High-End
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| Rating |
| We give
the ASUS P8Z77-V Premium solid four out of five stars. |
