ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe LGA 1155 ATX Motherboard Review
Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used
For our testing today, I have a couple different Z77-based motherboards that will help us evaluate and compare micro ATX and full ATX solutions that utilize this chipset. I wasn't able to acquire an Ivy Bridge processor in time to do these reviews, so I'm using one of my Intel Sandy Bridge i5-2500K processors in its place. Our readers should keep this in mind when they are reviewing our benchmark results. Our standard benchmark suite should give us a good indication about what users can expect from the ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard in terms of overall performance, gaming, and basic overclocking.
CPU-Z Screenshots
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Test System Setup |
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CPU |
Intel i5-2500K (running at 3.3GHz, 100x33) |
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Motherboards |
Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 |
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Memory |
Patriot 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-2000 Dual Channel (Note: We can only use up to 1600Mhz due to chipset limitations) |
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Solid State Drive |
Western Digital Silicon Edge Blue 128GB SATA 3GB/s SSD |
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Sound Card |
Onboard sound |
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Video Card |
XFX Radeon HD 5770 512MB |
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CPU Cooling |
Zalman CNPS12X |
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Video Drivers |
AMD ATI Catalyst 12.6 |
| Power Supply | PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750w |
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DirectX Version |
DX11/ DX10 / DX9c |
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Operating System |
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit |
Our 64-bit test bench for the LGA 1155 Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors includes 8 GBs of dual-channel DDR3-2000 memory, an XFX Radeon HD 5770 512MB graphics card, and a Western Digital Silicon Edge Blue 128GB SATA solid state drive for storage. This configuration focuses on evaluating the motherboard's capabilities and less on the rest of the hardware components.
Benchmarks used:
- SiSoft Sandra 2012
- CineBench 11.5 64-bit
- Handbrake DVD compression
- 3DMark Vantage
- 3DMark11 Professional
- Crysis 2
- Dirt 3
- PCMark Vantage
PC Perspective Upcoming Events
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The two gaming charts are wrong? Dirt 3 the higher numbers are labeled Min FPS. In Crisis 2 the chart shows that the ASUS bord was slower, but you say it was faster. Which is it?
I’d like to see a report done on the missing in action Asus ThunderboltEX card for use with the proprietary “TB_Header” on these motherboards.
I mean we know Intel wouldn’t certify the ThunderboltEX card but that kind of leave the whole thing up in the air. Were the earlier motherboards released with optional Thunderbolt support advertising on the packaging or manual? If so that could puts Asus in a bad legal situation given their inability to deliver the product.
Does the Zalman CNPS12X Cooler block out the 1st RAM position on this board? It looks like you have the RAM sticks in the blue slots (positions 2 & 4 starting from the CPU and counting away from the CPU) vs. the black slots.
Yeah I'm also interested to know if the cooler blocks any of the memory slots.
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