Specification
Product Details
- Brand: Asus
- Model: P8Z68 Deluxe
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.90" h x
14.40" w x
3.20" l,
4.50 pounds
- Memory: 32GB
Features
- LGA1155 socket for Intel 2nd Generation Core i7/Core i5/Core i3 Processors
- Intel Z68 Chipset
- EPU - System Level Energy Saving & Real-time Power Management for Superb Platform Power Efficiency
- TPU - Increase Platform Performance Instantly with Self Optimized Settings while retaining Full System Stability
- BT GO! (BT Turbo Remote) - Beyond your Imagination of what Bluetooth can do!
- 2 x Intel Gigabit LAN
- Intel Smart Response Technology - Experience the Benefits of both SSD and HDD
- LucidLogix Virtu -Utilize both iGPU and Discrete graphic card at same time
Product Description
Intel Z68 Smart Response EPU Lucidlogix Virtu GPU UEFI BIOS
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
29 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
By Grant A. Bugher
I just built a full system around this board: i7-2600K, 256GB Crucial m4 SSD, 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600, and two eVGA nVidia 580 GTXs in SLI.The pros: It's got all the features you need for both general use and enthusiast (overclocking) use. Things like QuickSync, USB 3.0, and SATA-6, as well as full overclocking controls. If you're the type to put a window on your case, it has a nice blue color scheme and well-designed swoopy-looking heatsinks. The layout is good for cable management, too -- it's the first time I've been able to assemble a computer with no cords hanging out above the motherboard. It has a *ton* of USB ports, too, including two rear 3.0s and a header for two front 3.0s. The bundled AI Suite II software actually allows full control of overclocking settings (even detailed ones) from inside Windows, and controls them live, without rebooting. There is a CMOS Reset button on the board (illuminated even!) for when you screw things up.The potential pitfalls: Those swoopy-looking heatsinks are tall, and inconveniently located at the top of the motherboard. If you plan to put a watercooling radiator on the top of your case they may get in the way (I had to drill some new screw-holes to do this. Also, it has not done so well for me as regards BCLK overclocking -- I get memory corruption at only 103.0, which is not much at all (though it fully supports multiplier overclocking, so my i7-2600K is running at nearly 5GHz without issues despite this problem. In addition, the Vengeance RAM is not a stupendous overclocker anyway, and I'm running an SLI system, so I can't necessarily even blame the board. Still, if you really want to crank BCLK to 107+ I'd suggest a Maximus IV instead.The surmountable problems: There are some known issues with this board. For one, the bundled software won't install properly on Windows 7 x64 without downloading a patch that ASUS makes almost impossible to find (you need it even with the latest version of the software from the website, and the patch isn't listed under this board on the site, so it takes some serious Googling. For another, it often fails to recover from sleep/hibernate if you don't disable "Internal PLL Overvoltage" in BIOS (well, UEFI), which defaults to on if you use any of the overclocking features. It will sometimes loop on reboots (i.e. reboot itself 3-4 times before POSTing) if you don't enable Wake on PCIE in the APM controls -- apparently the board counts *itself* as a PCIE device. If you need more than 2 SATA-6Gbps devices, you have to enable the Marvell controller, which lengthens your POST time (it has an Option ROM screen at boot that you can't disable) though if 2 SATA-6 and 4 SATA-3 devices is enough for you you can just turn the Marvell controller off and avoid this problem. And finally, there is an issue where Bink video (used by many games) will have the sound skip if CPU C1E is enabled in BIOS, and you really don't want to disable that (it will drive your power use and CPU heat dissipation way up) -- this said, this is a Bink bug and will hopefully be fixed in the near future.On one hand, that sounds like a lot of crap to deal with, and that's why I docked it a star -- ASUS needs to get its act together and come up with a BIOS that fixes this stuff, and a version of AI Suite II that actually installs properly. On the other hand, there are workarounds for all of it, and as a result I have a rock solid computer that's very fast, has every feature I could possibly want, and costs 1/3 less than the ASUS Extreme-Z.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By BeccaM
Slick board, looks great, more features and capabilities than you can shake a stick at.Cool stuff:- Both Marvell and Intel 6GB SATA III ports- Good placement of USB 3.0 header, as well as most of the other connection points- Plenty of USB 2.0 ports, plus 2 Ethernet ports- Nicely packaged with no shortage of build-parts- Came up on first power-up with no glitches or errors, operating system install was smooth as silk- The onboard Realtek sound is surprisingly good- Built-in Bluetooth adapterIt's been a few years since I had the means and the money to build my own system, so it was with the aid of folks here and on other sites that I decided on my component set. As always, it all starts with the motherboard and I have to thank the reviewers here for their detailed information -- it was invaluable.My system:- ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe- Intel i7-2600K (in case I do decide to overclock at some point)- Corsair Vengeance Blue DDR3 1600 - 16GB RAM- Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB DDR5- Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 800W power supply- Corsair H80 CPU liquid cooling system- Thermaltake Chaser MK-1 full tower case- Windows 7 64-bit ProI had zero problems with this motherboard, and would gladly get it again if I had a second system to build soon.Oh, and it was only on second reviewing of the manual and reading more info online that I learned about the Intel Smart Response technology, where you can install a relatively small Solid-State Drive, but achieve remarkable boosts in application loading and boot time, since it acts as a kind of permanent caching system for your most accessed files and apps, plus presumably key parts of the OS. I just placed an order for a small 64GB SSD for about a hundred bucks here on Amazon, and will add that to the system this coming week. (I'd have gone larger, but this system did kinda set me back a bit in the finances.)On update, 2/17/12: System is working like a champ, and I can even run high-end computer games like Skyrim and Star Wars: The Old Republic on maximum graphics settings. Zero problems or issues, and the decision to add an SSD to accelerate the boot drive was absolutely the right thing to do. I went from several minutes for full access after a reboot to something like 30-40 seconds, plus my main applications load much faster and with much less hard drive churn.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Jimmychuck
This motherboard is fantastic. There were no problems with setup and all the features work great. Very FAST with my i7-2600, 16GB DDR3-1866 RAM and Vertex 3 120GB SSD Drive. I need this motherboard because it not only has the latest hardware (SATA 3 and USB 3) but it also has the IEEE 1394 ports I need for my older devices.
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