Looking for some feedback from Asus P8Z77-M owners

[toshvan]

Since Asus doesn't have any Z75 motherboards I was looking at Asus P8Z77-M as a cheap Z solution for my computing needs. Can anybody share some experience with this motherboard, stability and overclocking-wise?


I know it has only 4+1 VRM, but I only intend to do 4.2-4.4MHz overclock so I guess that shouldn't bother me. The board doesn't have Asus TPU but I don't mind that ether, since I prefer to do my overclocking manually.

Other parts are: i-2500K CPU and use a pair of RAM sticks from Mushkin (997000 - 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 7-8-7-24 Redline).

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

did you buy this board? I am looking to use it in a build pretty soon and am wondering how others like it

 

[toshvan]

did you buy this board? I am looking to use it in a build pretty soon and am wondering how others like it

Nope, not yet... I'm not in a hurry and kinda still waiting for some more choice (in my country) but it's still the only choice within the budget. If I'm unable to find some Asrock z77/z75 boards locally, I'll have to buy this board.

From what I've seen in another forum couple of guys managed a medium OC and didn't complain about problems with the board. It's Asus so I guess it's solid, just not the absolute best possible value for the money.

 

[Vectronic]

What Country? And By "locally" do you mean anywhere in the country online or not, or do you mean within X driving distance?

That's a Micro-ATX board, does it have to be Micro-ATX?

These are all cheaper than that board, only one is uATX though.
GA-Z77-D3H
GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP
GA-Z77-DS3H
P8Z77-V LX

 

[Carson Dyle]

I have an ASUS P8Z77-M Pro and it's absolutely rock-solid. I love it, especially all the onbaord fan headers that can be controlled using ASUS Fan Xpert+.

I don't overclock it, though. I saw a review somewhere where they were able to mildly overclock the board, but it wasn't spectacular.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=64463

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

are all four of the fan headers independent? Asus has an annoying habit of fusing some headers to the same PWM. Just ordered the board (non-pro) and am pretty excited.

 

[Carson Dyle]

are all four of the fan headers independent? Asus has an annoying habit of fusing some headers to the same PWM. Just ordered the board (non-pro) and am pretty excited.

They appear to be, although only my CPU and rear chassis fans are PWM. The two fans that I have in the front of the case are not PWM, so are being voltage controlled by the motherboard.

 

[toshvan]

What Country? And By "locally" do you mean anywhere in the country online or not, or do you mean within X driving distance?

That's a Micro-ATX board, does it have to be Micro-ATX?

Macedonia, m8. And because of the discount I have at the local store that carries Asus (and some Asrock) those Gigabite boards are more expensive than the thread subject: P8Z77-M.
For some reason P8Z77-V LX seems to be 20% more expensive than P8Z77-M.

Board format is not important, though I'd prefer full ATX if possible. Thing is I fully explored the local options and the only P8Z77-M seems to fit both the requirements and the budget. Feature-wise only P8Z77-V seems viable upgrade over the P8Z77-M but that one's like twice the price of P8Z77-M.

Barring some eventual stability and quality problems I'm kind of a surrendered that P8Z77-M is my future, I only wanted to know if it will be able to do some modest OC on the i2500K CPU that I already have.