ASUS P8Z77-V LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
This mobo is great it has a so many a features for a very good price, it looks amazing especially with corsair vengeance blue memory ram, overlocking with this mobo is actually very easy and the UEFI bios makes it so much simple.
Just a warning DO NOT USE THE CD DRIVERS! Download the latest drivers from asus web page :
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Do that and you can't go wrong with this mobo!
My rig aspects:
Intel Core i5 3570K @4,5GHZ 1.280v
Corsair H60
ASUS P8Z77-V
Corsair Vengeance Blue 8 GB (2X4 GB) 1600mHz
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SE
Sound Blaster Recon3D SB1350
SSD Crucial 128gb M4 + Seagate ST2000DM001 2tb + Maxtor 250gb
Corsair CMPSU-650TX
LG 3D W2363D + NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses Kit
NZXT Phantom 410
This motherboard has been working flawlessly for 6 months now. The BIOS setup was a piece of cake and it's a breeze to navigate and manage the uEFI is great. The OS side interface is pretty good as well, but I don't use it much. I haven't used the WiFi Go, so I can't comment on that, but all the other spec seem to work perfectly. I also love the blue color scheme (it matches my case, cathodes, and a few other components.
Intel Core i5-3570K Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155
ASUS P8Z77-V LGA 1155 Intel Z77
Crucial 128 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s
G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)
EVGA GeForce GTX 660Ti 2048MB GDDR5
Corsair Enthusiast Series 850-Watt 80 Plus
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Seagate Barracuda 7200 3 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s
Thermaltake Chaser MK-1 Full Tower Case
I bought this to go along with my 2 7970's and an i7-3770k. This board has everything I could ever want. Everything is nice and spaced accordingly so no real estate is wasted. Tons of fan connectors so you'll always have all the cooling power you'll need. The integrated graphics are powerful enough to play pretty much any game on at least medium quality. This board is excellent.
However, there is only one gripe I have with it: The Wi-Fi Go! module. Installation was a little clumsy, and the reception is entirely unusable unless you connect the antenna to it. In addition to this, the antenna cable doesn't actually stick into the Wi-Fi Go! module, so you might have to sticky-tape it on. With the antenna, the signal is incredibly strong. That's my only gripe with it. The product is overwhelmingly good otherwise.
Mated this board with an Intel I7-3770, H50 Hydro cooler, 4x4 (16GB) of GSkill DDR3 1600 RAM, a 128GB Samsung 830 SATA 6gb SSD as boot, 1TB WD Caviar Black SATA 6gb for data & production, SATA 3gb DVD/CD read write and a Radon HD 6800 series GPU. Running both fast and cool. Fingers-crossed, no issues so far.
NOTE: It is important that you update the Bios if using INTEL IVY processors! Asus has the download.
P8Z77-V is pretty much like the P8Z68 with some extra features. However, I must say that the I/O Plate Shield could have been much better if they kept to the plastic foam like the P8Z68. Nonetheless, the P8Z77 takes advantage of the Z77 chipset and best supports third generation processors. Works great with the iCore5 3570K. The wifi thing isn't connected at first, as someone has pointed out, but it's really easy to just install, so I don't see why Asus couldn't just put it together as a whole piece.
For gamers that want to know the best benefits, the rear panel in general supports more USB 3.0 ports than the P8Z68 V-Pro, the PS/2 port for keyboards is crucial for gamers that need a faster response in mechanical keyboarding games, games like Starcraft heavily depend on that. USB keyboards just don't give better key roller compared to PS/2 ports and many articles can reference this. So this really, only leaves a one difference in USB port in the back. Both motherboards have setup for front panel USB support, so the extra USB onboard ports on the P8Z68 V seem practically useless to me. There are extra PCI Express 2.0 x 16 than the V-Pro, Wifi so that your PC can be used wherever you are in the house compared to a direct cable from the router. Everything else, they're both practically the same. Remember that the P8Z68-V is more expensive and has less features to boot.
For new builders, I recommend this over the P8Z68 V-Pro Gen 3 for getting the best bang out of your buck. It's cheaper and it has all the functions and more than the P8Z68.
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