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.

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.