Asus P8Z68-V Pro vs ASRock Z68 Extreme4

[Capt Caveman]

Just went to MC and picked-up a 2500k and Asus P8Z68-V Pro but saw the ASRock Z68 Extreme4 there.

I found this review - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...s-p8z68-v-pro-gigabyte-z68x-ud3h-b3,2939.html

But wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts on either board.

Thanks

 

[dbrons]

I really like the Asus. It's the best board I've ever used - also the most expensive.

I really like the control I have of the two PWM fans on my Corsair radiator. And the uefi BIOS is nice.

I see from that review that the Asrock has a new style BIOS as well so maybe has a lot of the same function though the Asus interface is nicer IMO

Dave

 

[Mem]

Best Z68 IMHO is the Asrock Extreme4 Gen3 ,

In terms of performance the Extreme4 Gen3 delivers on every level – be it processing power, memory bandwidth or encoding this motherboard battles it out with some of the big contenders using the Intel P67 chipset. In fact the Extreme4 Gen3 doesn’t only keep up with some of the premium offerings from ASUS and MSI but in some of the benchmarks it even toppled them. Compare the price of the Extreme4 Gen3 to those rivals and you have a great value for money motherboard on your hands.

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/asrock_z68_extreme4_gen3_review.html

 

[you2]

I have the asrock extreme4; the reason I went with the board over alternatives were:

a) It has display port (not important if you use a dedicated gpu; but for my application I required display port on the MB)

b) led diagnosis (the msi board I have for example gives no indication of issues; while it worked perfectly others have issue and then can't figure out why the bloody thing enters a reboot loop)

c) usb 3.0 front bracket (very minor thing but nice freebie)
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Looking at the two boards (asrock and asus) they seem to have the same feature set 'cept the display port; and the asus has a better heat sink on the z68 itself (the asrock does feel a bit warm; but well in spec).
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In the asus favor it does have a longer warranty. Beyond that I think the two boards are probably a wash with fans for both of them.

 

[Drawmonster]

I had a lot of trouble with my Asus P8P67 Pro. Couple RMA's. Got a new P8p67 Pro back on the last RMA, sold it, and bought the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Rev. 3. I did quite a bit of research, and it seems to be the best Z68 board for the buck right now.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Decided to go with the Asus, due to some complaints of quality on the AsRock(SATA ports not working and USB Keyboard issues).

Kept on getting BSOD when booting up til I changed the SATA ports to IDE from AHCI.

Does it matter if I'm using IDE and not AHCI?

 

[you2]

It matters a bit; with AHCI you will get command queueing for sata drives (bit better performance). This mostly matters for a lot of small reads as it gives the disk a chance to optimize the order of the requests.
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Memory is the most common reason for BSOD; not always bad memory but also bad setting. Be sure to enable xmp.

Decided to go with the Asus, due to some complaints of quality on the AsRock(SATA ports not working and USB Keyboard issues).

Kept on getting BSOD when booting up til I changed the SATA ports to IDE from AHCI.

Does it matter if I'm using IDE and not AHCI?

 

[Capt Caveman]

It matters a bit; with AHCI you will get command queueing for sata drives (bit better performance). This mostly matters for a lot of small reads as it gives the disk a chance to optimize the order of the requests.
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Memory is the most common reason for BSOD; not always bad memory but also bad setting. Be sure to enable xmp.

Got the drivers and switched things over to AHCI.