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ASUS LGA 1155 - Z68 - SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0 - ATX Intel Z68 ATX DDR3 2200 Intel ? LGA 1155 Motherboards (P8Z68-V LE)


Great Once Dialed In, (What's this?) Edit: The new bios (0702) released on Oct 6, 2011 seems to have resolved at least some of the issues. My mouse now works in the EUFI bios and the bios notes mentions "1. Improve memory compatibility 2. Improve system stability"

I had a few major issues with this but it's now working great. Some things you should be aware of:

If you're installing Windows from a USB stick drive or USB CD/DVD drive DO NOT use the USB 3.0 ports to connect/boot from. The install will get started but will then fail giving either an unhelpful error or a blue screen of death. This happened in Windows 7, Windows XP, and Ubuntu. Plug it into the USB 2.0 ports and it'll work normally.

The HD mode defaults to AHCI so if you installed Windows on an older hard drive and want to use it with this motherboard you'll need to go into the bios and change it to IDE mode. If you want the extra performance of AHCI on your old install google MS KB 922976 for a fix.
If overclocking - do not enable PLL overvoltage unless you don't need sleep, (What's this?) Here's my summary first -

Value - 5 stars - good price/performance
Features - 5 stars (for price) - CrossFire for future gfx upgrade, enough USB, SAT6gb, etc.
Stock Experience - 5 stars - everything worked fine on first boot
OC experience - 3 stars - I had to spend a lot of time with it - disable PLL OV and things are fine (read below for more)
Overall - 4 stars for me

Details:

Used this board to build a i5 2500k based machine. At stock speeds this board performed fine for me. Booted up first time, had to re-install windows 7 since the efi bios is not compatible with non-efi installs. I had a backup of everything, so that was fine. 5 stars so far..

So, here's the part that I'm taking a star away for - The Z68 chipset was released to give enthusiasts all the video features that sandy bridge supports, and the overclocking features that the previous chipsets had (those chipsets lacked the video features).
Great, Amazing value, bios is very intuitive and easy to navigate, set up and customize.

I had to RMA the 1st however due to a reboot issue I had, PC would boot 2-3 times sometimes when starting up before loading windows. It's been 3 months since and not another issue.

You can see my set up in the pics uploaded.
Great board overall with minor negatives, (What's this?) The board itself is fantastic, the best part probably being the GUI BIOS. The only things I have any reason to complain about is the outer port cover is really cheaply made. It is far too flimsy to stay in place sometimes so when plugging things in it will wiggle around. It basically just worries me is all. Also, the slots for the Mic and Headphones headers on the board are placed behind the GPU slot, so because I have a huge GPU it made it difficult to plug in.

Overall: Very happy about the purchase.

  • LGA1155 socket for 2nd Generation Intel Core i7/Core i5/Core i3 Processors
  • Intel Z68 Express Chipset
  • EPU - System Level Energy Saving & Real-time Power Management for Superb Platform Power Efficiency
  • LucidLogix Virtu - Dynamic switching between i-Mode and d-Mode
  • Intel Smart Response Technology - Experience the Benefits of both SSD and HDD

  • LGA1155 socket for 2nd Generation Intel Core i7/Core i5/Core i3 Processors.Intel Z68 Express Chipset.EPU - System Level Energy Saving & Real-time Power Management for Superb Platform Power Efficiency.LucidLogix Virtu - Dynamic switching between i-Mode and d-Mode.Intel Smart Response Technology - Experience the Benefits of both SSD and HDD. The ASUS P8Z68-V LE motherboard features the Intel Z68 chipset supporting the 2nd Generation Intel Core i7/Core i5/Core i3 Processors.

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