Which Z77?

Bezzaboy1234

Bezzaboy1234

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Hi guys,

Looking to move to the Z77 with my 2500K, Will hopefully move to IB if they release some chips with some substantial difference,

But which Z77 board to pick? not really interested in whacking out £200 for a board,

Just needs to have expandability for another GPU or possibly a third, and at least 8 SATA connector's

Also do all the Z77 boards have only 4 DIMM slots? was kinda hoping some might have 8 =/

Thanks people!
 
RJC said:
All Z77 have 4 memory slots, only the X79 has 8.

Couple of options below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-388-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-199-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

These only offer dual SLI & Crossfire, these will run at dual 8x bandwidth.
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Just out of curiosity, why go for a more expensive board over some like this:

Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77

What do those board do that this doesnt?
 
I'm also looking to do a similar thing, as my current motherboard only has PCIe2.0 slots at 8x for SLI. From what I've read there there's a considerable performance hit for that, especially as I'm running at 2560x1600.

I was looking at this one: Asus P8Z77-V

The advantage for me would be I'd gain an extra SATA slot (I have a spare hard-drive from my last upgrade), there would be an extra slot between my two graphics cards (the top one gets very hot since going SLI) and I could install a PCIe DSP card that currently doesn't fit in my system. I also like the look of the Auto Tuning feature, which automatically overclocks systems - it'll be handy when it comes to upgrading my CPU. However, would I be able to run both GPUs in PCIe2.0 16x (I don't have an Ivy Bridge CPU to support PCIe3.0) or would they both run at 8x? If it's the latter then I'd really need a new processor as well, which I wasn't planning on (I can afford it but don't think the expense is justified).

I have a decent overclock at the moment, though I could always sell my old components if I did a full upgrade. But I'd rather just upgrade my motherboard at this point.
 
Asus P8Z77-V (2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8))

So its only x16 in the first PCI slot, Then Dual x8 for two and the last slot x4

EDIT: Even the Deluxe version doesnt have PCI-E x16 dual, How odd, Are there any Z77 with this feature?
 
Bezzaboy1234 said:
Asus P8Z77-V (2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8))

So its only x16 in the first PCI slot, Then Dual x8 for two and the last slot x4
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I saw that, I just didn't know whether it applied to PCIe2.0 as well considering that it has half the bandwidth.
 
the gigabyte sniper runs x16 for crossfire/sli dual and 8 x if you use tri or quad
think its the only one that does
 
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Bezzaboy1234 said:
Asus P8Z77-V (2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8))

So its only x16 in the first PCI slot, Then Dual x8 for two and the last slot x4

EDIT: Even the Deluxe version doesnt have PCI-E x16 dual, How odd, Are there any Z77 with this feature?
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I'm pretty sure that the Deluxe does X16 dual sli or crossfire. Let me check
 
All z77 motherboards that have SLI/xfire capabilities run 8x/8x/4x Tri SLI/xfire. 16x is using one card and to get PCI3.0 an Ivy Bridge processor is needed since the controller is on the chip no the motherboard.
 
Ollie1132 said:
All z77 motherboards that have SLI/xfire capabilities run 8x/8x/4x Tri SLI/xfire. 16x is using one card and to get PCI3.0 an Ivy Bridge processor is needed since the controller is on the chip no the motherboard.
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wrong look at gigabyte sniper dual 16x16 tri and quad it goes to 8
 
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