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ASRock Z68 Pro3 @ OCInside
“All in all the ASRock Z68 Pro3 offers thus a very inexpensive solution with Z68 chipset, which does not only ensure low cost with high performance at the date of acquisition. Thanks to low current consumption and support of Lucid Virtu technology it also offers during the operation low cost by low power consumption.”
ASUS Maximus IV Extreme P67 @ Pro Clockers
“ASUS have sent us several P67 based motherboards over the past few months, none of which are as sought after by the enthusiasts as the Maximus IV Extreme. Being part of the Republic of Gamer product line you know that you will not only will get every last feature supported by the chipset, but then some as well. ASUS have always put an extra effort in to giving the consumer what they want in a motherboard. Sometimes, the consumer gets even more than what they were after, all thanks to ASUS going that extra mile.”
ASUS RoG Maximus IV Gene-Z @ Hardware Heaven
“The latest to market with a board which is a little different to the norm is ASUS with their Maximus IV Gene-Z and today we will be putting this SLI and Crossfire compatible M-ATX enthusiast board through its paces in a selection of real world and synthetic tests to find out if it can match an ATX alternative from one of ASUS key competitors.”
Zotac Z68-ITX WiFi @ OC3D
“So let’s step away from all that hyperbole and schizophrenia and just look at the Zotac Z68-ITX WiFi for what it actually is, and that’s a very capable ITX board with a raft of the latest technologies and some reasonable overclocking capabilities. So don’t expect it to be all things to all men but rather a good ITX board and under those circumstances it’s reasonable value at about £130 and therefore worthy of our OC3D Bronze award.”
Gigabyte G1.Sniper @ APH Networks
“The highest raw overclock I was able to obtain with my Intel Core i7-930 was marginally over 4.00 GHz (4.01GHz to be exact, if you are really that picky) with the base clock set to 191MHz, and the multiplier set at 21x. To test these settings in a good controlled condition, I have disabled Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost on my processor.”
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 @ Anandtech
“The Z68 based motherboards are very similar to the P67 equivalent but they have had a few extra features added. They include Virtu and SSD caching as well as allowing you to take advantage of the GPU built into your Sandy Bridge processor. Is it worth switching from P67 to Z68 for a few extra features? Well, after what I have seen, no, not really.”
ASUS Sabertooth P67 @ FutureLooks
“Integrated into the motherboard, as well as every ASUS P8P67 motherboard, is ASUS’ high end DIGI+VRM technology. Rather than drown you in the electrical engineering speak, the purpose of this technology is to provide the processor and supporting components with maximum power at the highest possible frequencies by controlling signal oscillation.”
GIGABYTE GA-A75M-UD2H @ Vortez
“Price wise you are able to pick up this particular APU and board for just under £200 which seems perfectly reasonable to me. Ultimately the end user benefits from the simpler install and set up (thanks to the single APU chip and no need for a discrete GPU), they also benefit from more frugal power usage and benefit through that reasonable price which is certainly not much more than a similar motherboard, CPU and GPU bundle.”
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 @ OCWorkbench
“Although Z68X-UD7-B3 uses the new hybrid chipset that is capable of video output, Gigabyte has somewhat removed that feature totally. We don’t see any HDMI, DVI-D, D-SUB ports from the backplate of the mainboard. A closer look at both boards tell us that the Z68X-UD7-B3 could be just a drop in replacement of the P67A-UD7-B3. As P67A-UD7-B3 uses the P67 chipset, it does not come with any video out.”
Asus Rampage III Black Edition @ Legion Hardware
“The Rampage III Black Edition is said to take overclocking to the next level and it does so with a fancy new black BIOS. The specifications list includes some pretty impressive memory support, not only can the board be crammed with 48GB of RAM, but it can also be clocked at 2.2GHz and in triple-channel that’s a lot of bandwidth.”