ASUS P8Z68-V Pro Review
Published by Marc Büchel on 07.06.11Page:
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| CPU | Intel Socket 1155 Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 |
| Chipset | Intel Z68 |
| Memory | Dual Channel DDR3, 4 x DIMM, Max. 32 GB DDR3, 2200 OC / 2133 OC / 1866 / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 Non-ECC,Un-buffered |
| Multi-GPU | ATI CrossFireX NVIDIA SLI |
| Slots | 2 x PCI-Express x16 (single at x16, dual at x8/x8
mode) 1 x PCI-Express x16 (at x4 mode, compatible with PCIe x1 and x4 devices) 2 x PCI-Express 2.0 x1 2 x PCI |
| Sound | Realtek ALC892 8-Channel HD Audio Codec |
| Storage | 4 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1) 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD) 1 x eSATA 3.0 Gb/s |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth v 2.1 + EDR, ASUS BT GO! Utility |
| LAN | 1 x Gigabit LAN |
| Firewire | 2 x 1394a ports (2 via motherboard header) |
| USB | 4 x USB 3.0/2.0 (2 via back panel, 2
via front panel) 12 x USB 2.0/1.1 Connectors (8 via back panel, 4 via motherboard header) |
| Fan connectors | 6 header |
| Forfactor | ATX (30.5cm x 24.4cm) |
| BIOS | Bios (2 x 32 Mb flash ROM, EFI AMI BIOS) |
- Manual
- 1 x ATX I/O bezel
- 2 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s cable
- 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s cable
- 2 in 1 Q-connector
- 1 x ASUS USB 3.0 bezel
- 1 x SLI Bridge
- 1 x Driver CD, Antivirus software, ASUS Update, ASUS Utilities
Regarding the delivery you'll find everything you need. Under certain circumstances you might wish there was an additional SLI or CrossFire bridge in the delivery but the fact that this is an aggressively priced product makes it understandable why they didn't do that.
Features
| EPU | If you activate the EPU this chip monitors all possible voltages and clock speeds and automatically sets them to guarantee an energy efficient operation of you system. |
| TPU | As soon as one activates the TPU this chips monitors all possible voltages and clock speeds using the according software. The difference to the EPU is that TPU will provide as much performance as possible. Therefore it can increase clock speeds and voltages. |
| Digital Power Design | Meanwhile ASUS also provides its boards with digital power designs. Using the the right software, in this case ASUS DIGI+ VRM Utility it is not only possible to adjust voltages whilst being in Windows on can now also control impedances. |
| BT GO! | BT GO! can be classified as a very typical gadget using which it is possbile to for example remote control your PC via your mobile phone. There is also some functionality to synchronize folders in fact one can do quite a lot using BT GO! |
| Lucid Virtu | All the new P8Z-series motherboards from ASUS support Lucids Virtu software. Using which makes a dynamic load balancing between the integrated graphics and a discrete graphics card possible. The software in this case can for example deactivate the discrete graphics card and only use the integrated graphics from the CPU. This makes sense when applications only need 2D compute power. Another example would be a 3D application where Virtu dynamically assigns load to either both the integrated as well as discrete graphics in order to maximize performance. |
| Intel Smart Response Technology | Intels Z68 chipset allows to use a small SSD as a cache for a big hard drive in order to enhance overall system performance. Especially application and system starts are ment to benefit from this technology. Also the overall user experience should become smoother. Of course you shouldn't expect a setup which makes use of Intels Smart Response Technology to outperform a SSD as a system drive. |
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