worth Changeing P67 to Z68?

JasonKnights · 3 Jun 2011 at 18:03

Hi there I currently have a P8P67 Deluxe motherboard with 2x 580s in SLI
i use my pc mainly for divx encoding and Games so would the Z68 board speed things up for me? I know it uses quick sync but will that beat the 1024 cuda cores I have or boost my gaming performance? cheers

numatic.nathan · 3 Jun 2011 at 18:08

I don't think it would be worth the cost TBH

cjgardens · 3 Jun 2011 at 18:18

I would also like to know this. Are the pci-e slots 16x

i have the same board as you and game and do the odd bit of converting.

But i have gtx 480 sli.

Were in Manchester you from mate. Im in heywood

JasonKnights · 3 Jun 2011 at 20:17

I live in atherton mate, our board takes it down to 8x 8x in sli but ive heard the difference in 8x and 16x is very slight. you may get 1 extra frame per second in 16x mode over 8x. because games are so gpu intense you only use around 30 percent of your cpu. so the z68s let you encode your movies with the on chip gpu (on the cpu) and play games with gtx 480 gpu and not slow your system down. so can do 2 things at once :-)

so if its true could be worth it and with the added feature of the 2 x 16x slots make the games alittle smoother too

Moothead2 · 3 Jun 2011 at 21:38

Don't think it's worth it to be honest. How often are you going to be playing games while rendering/encoding movies etc?

Surveyor · 3 Jun 2011 at 21:42

Quick Sync is only of use if the software supports it:

Intel Quick Sync

If the software you use for DivX encoding doesn't support Quick Sync you'd see no benefit at all.

panyan · 3 Jun 2011 at 21:43

numatic.nathan said:
I don't think it would be worth the cost TBH

Moothead2 said:
Don't think it's worth it to be honest.

+1 it isnt worth the money/time/effort

cjgardens · 5 Jun 2011 at 10:42

Ive heard of something to do with a ssd caching the files which you use the most. Can someone explain it to me please.

So with the added features it may be worth the upgrade. I will only do it when the prices come down a bit and the tech is a bit more supported.

Surveyor · 5 Jun 2011 at 12:42

cjgardens said:
Ive heard of something to do with a ssd caching the files which you use the most. Can someone explain it to me please.

So with the added features it may be worth the upgrade. I will only do it when the prices come down a bit and the tech is a bit more supported.

This explains it:

Intel Smart Response Technology

cjgardens · 5 Jun 2011 at 15:25

That sounds good to me. I have a ssd with windows on it and all i benefit from it is boot up times. But with this your games will all load fast.

Wonder if you can make it bigger than 20gb

Klo · 5 Jun 2011 at 15:56

I personally wouldn't say it was worth it.

matthab · 6 Jun 2011 at 14:07

Nope

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mhowarth · 6 Jun 2011 at 19:10

I don't think it would be worth the price to upgrade either to be honest with you.

(Also, i'm from Altrincham - Manchester )

Evoss · 6 Jun 2011 at 19:42

I would stick with the P67, not worth the cost of upgrading.

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