Review: ASUS P8Z77 WS
Published by Marc Büchel on 05.06.12Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| At a first glance ASUS leaves a good impression with its P8Z77 WS Deluxe. Unfortunately there still are some things which could have been done in a better way. Most importantly there are the cooling blocks which keep the current supply at adequate temperatures. They're simply too big which has the consequence that installing several high end aircoolers can be a bit tricky. On the other hand the board looks absolutely marvellous. We very much like the color design and to us it very appealing. | - Design | ||
| Layout | + | - | |
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Basically the ASUS P8Z77 WS' 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. Unfortunately as we already phrased out in the text above there are some issues if you focus on the CPU socket. The aluminium blocks which keep the current converters cool can cause compatibility problems with high end CPU coolers. Another thing is the DIMM slots. They are also very close to the socket. In this case memory which is equipped with big heatspreaders can also collide with big aircoolers. |
- Angled SATA connectors
- Power/Reset-Button onboard - Debug display - PS/2 |
- Space around CPU socket - DIMM slots close to the CPU socket | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| With the P8Z77 WS, ASUS has a motherboard in its portfolio, which shows very solid benchmark results. The performance was very good concerning 3D Mark Vantage CPU, memory bandwidth, memory latency and SuperPi 1M/32M. Furthermore there are no performance glitches, which is really good for a board right after the launch of a new chipset. A closer look at the power consumption on the other hand shows that it comes in the last spot concerning idle and load power consumption. High power consumption is typical for motherboards with many features. Therefore this result is no surprise. Regarding our performance rating we see this board in the upper center span for our 3D benchmarks and on the very top for the 2D benchmarks | -
3D Mark Vantage CPU - Memory bandwidth - Memory latency - Super Pi 1M / 32M |
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| BIOS / Overclocking | + | - | |
| Also in the overclocking part the P8Z77 WS Deluxe 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. | - Well structured BIOS - UEFI-BIOS | ||
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| If you want to build a workstation, a high end comptuer or a gaming system, which is based on Intels Ivy Bridge CPU then the ASUS P8Z77 WS is a very good choice. | -
Workstation - High-End - Gaming - Overclocking |
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| Rating | |||
| We give the ASUS P8Z77 WS good four out of five stars. | |||
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Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch c.ney@ocaholic.ch
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