Asus P8Z68-V PRO and Gainward GTX580 - potential fouling

[doozyeff]

Hi all,

Swapped out an i7 / P7P55D system to an i5-2500k / P8Z68, and have just gone to fit the GPU.

I didn't pick up on this in the reviews (my fault I guess) but Asus have put the main 16x PCI-E slot second from the top now, instead of at the top.

As a result, I've pushed the GPU into its new home and found the little holding clip on the end of the PCI-E socket hasn't really 'clicked' into place - because the end of the graphics card appears to have contacted the block of SATA connectors, specifically the intel and marvel 6GB slots.

Not sure if I have any options here or I'm plain outta luck with this choice - I guess I might try and push it in to what feels like a full fit and power on, see if it works, but if its not 100% in the PCIe socket it could cause damage to the GPU or motherboard?

 

[doozyeff]

Hi, quick update, I had a good look at the install and it appeared to be fully in the PCIe slot, while also just touching the sata block.

I powered up to check, and got a display OK. Looks like it's just a very tight fit.

 

[dbrons]

Great Can you let us know how the board works for you? I'm strongly considering it myself.
Dave

 

[doozyeff]

I did possibly a worst-case install, and upgraded over an existing Win7 installation. Call me lazy, but I don't relish the idea of a fresh install anymore, what with having to gather all my programs configuration data / prefs, and of course reinstalling them all again too.

So far it's working great - Booted into Windows, let it do some renumeration of devices and rebooted. Installed drivers off the motherboard dvd and rebooted. At this point I also plugged in everything into the motherboard - audio cables, network cable, a couple of other USB devices. Windows wanted one more reboot. Then it got stuck trying to boot back up, got stuck at 'Starting Windows'.

Turns out the fix was to disable USB legacy support / USB3.0 legacy support in the UEFI/BIOS. I didn't look too much into it, but it seems as if it wasn't happy with a CompactFlash card reader that's embedded in my monitor.

System is currently working perfectly. Will be testing overclocking tomorrow, aiming to get to 4.5ghz.

 

[Dribble]

I have a Asus P8Z68-V PRO and a GTX 570. Fits fine.