Review: ASUS P8Z77-V Premium
Published by Marc Büchel on 20.07.12Layout
Already at a first glance the ASUS P8Z77-V Premium looks very good with it harmonic design. The colors look suite nicely and the different blue tones on a black PCB are calming. The layout itself is well thought and there is for example plenty of space around the CPU socket to install even todays largest CPU coolers.
ASUS equipped the P8Z77-V Premium with a 16+4+2 phase VRM design whereas the CPU can rely on 16 phases, the integrated graphics unit gets four phases and the memory gets its own two phases. Furthermore ASUS put a digital power design on the board, which comes meanwhile in the third generation. With their digital power design they promise that it emits less electromagnetic radiation than its analogue counterpart. Therefore ASUS claims that the system stability can be enhanced even further, especially during extreme overclocking.
Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the P8Z77-V Premium. Officially supported are DDR3 - 2800 (OC) / 2600 (OC) / 2400 (OC) / 2200 OC / 2133 (OC) / 1866 (OC) / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 with up to 32 GByte capacity. There is plenty of space between the CPU socket and the DIMM slots, that you can install even big aircooler as well as memory with big heatspreaders.
The power design as well as the PLX chips below the CPU socket is being held at adequate temperatures via passive cooling blocks. In order to improve heat conductivity these three cooling blocks share one heatpipe. The PCH is also being covered by a passive cooling block. The aluminium blocks around the CPU socket are quite big but still there is plenty of space to easily install even todays biggest air coolers.
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