best motherbaord for ivy bridge overclocking?

[HURRIC4NE]

title says it all, im thinking of doing a custom water loops....

 

[Don Karnage]

Best overclocking board is the Maximus V

 

[rgallant]

not all of the high end boards are out , so join the waiting game. upside is that newer batches of ib are showing up and can't be any worst than the ones so far.

I'm just waiting for 16x 16x[8x,8x,8x] pci-e 3.0 from asus [non WS], really don't want a downgrade for a new build.[limited to sli only]even if I don't use it ,for the set up time and money for a z77 I want more than sli x8.

 

[Diogenes2]

I think any board will fail to overclock IB as well as any other ..

:biggrin:

 

[blackened23]

Best overclocking board is the Maximus V

Nope, P8z77 Pro or Deluxe! 20 Power phases baby!

So basically OP: If you want the best motherboard for oc'ing your choices are asus or asus!

 

[cantholdanymore]

Nope, P8z77 Pro or Deluxe! 20 Power phases baby!

So basically OP: If you want the best motherboard for oc'ing your choices are asus or asus!

He's referring to the extreme version coming at the end of this month

 

[Don Karnage]

Nope, P8z77 Pro or Deluxe! 20 Power phases baby!

So basically OP: If you want the best motherboard for oc'ing your choices are asus or asus!

They're just the "Ugly" Asus boards

 

[nyker96]

I like the Asrock Z77 boards, black pcb.

 

[Blades]

I agree with nyker.. I just got a gigabyte Z77X-UD5 and I really really really like my asrock z68 over this.. The gigabyte is physically much wider and the bios tries to simplify complex options.... and in doing so, totally screws the pooch.. what the fuck am I going to do with low, normal, standard, turbo extreme... those aren't the actual values for anything.. really subjective.. I need to get a small tattoo on one of my wrists that says "Notes to self: 1. Don't get another Gigabyte board".. and then I'll add on from there..

I don't understand how this board uses more power at idle either.. its awful.

 

[davel]

I have to admit it took me a while to get use to the Z77X-UD5H bios options and layout but now that I have I really like it!

Plus have not had any major issues at all very stable for me so far.

 

[Blades]

What speed are you running at?