Asus P8Z77-V (Z77) Motherboard Review

Throughout the vast majority of Z77 boards that I have overclocked on, its safe to say that most of these have been aimed at the enthusiast / high end markets and so naturally over clocking is a little more expected and consequently features such as higher specification MOSFETs and substantially more power phases are to be found, giving the processor all the power it needs and as smooth as possible.

Part of the beauty of over clocking the current line of unlocked Intel CPU’s is actually down to how easy the process is and how forgiving the chips are to a certain point. This means that even on a mainstream board such as this one, there is still the potential for getting the processor up and past the 4.5GHz mark with ease and past that with a little bit of voltage tweaking from within the UEFI BIOS.

Due to this ease of over clocking, the P8Z77-V quickly saw 4.7GHz appear with no other adjustments required apart from increasing the ratio to 47x. Past this and to take it just that little bit further, a bit of load-line calibration and increase on the PLL and core voltages saw 4.8GHz stable. Sadly anything past this was not-to-be with unstable results. 4.8GHz though is highly impressive for a board of this type.