Anyone going for the Zotac Z68?

Danfoss2011 · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:10

Found UK stock for £125 delivered. Just wandering if anyone is going to go for the Zotac or wait?

Danfoss2011 · 20 Jul 2011 at 15:23

Zotac seams to max oc on 25/2600's @ 4.5Ghz. Everyone has said a better BIOS would help. I'd be happy if it allowed 5G's

Next year will be pointless as new tech by then!

Danfoss2011 · 20 Jul 2011 at 22:34

I spoke with them and they said there due any day, i then spoke with the importer as someone thats ment to do there job can't and they said next week they should clear customs

Danfoss2011 · 22 Jul 2011 at 18:32

Just taken delivery of mine.

Danfoss2011 · 24 Jul 2011 at 18:45

timciren said:
happy with it so far ??

still not showing in stock anywhere I can find

I got mine through work off the UK importers.

Yeah it's alright. 4.5Ghz is the max and nothing more even in windows via everything possible. It's all BIOS related. Have even looked to see if i can be modded but too complex.

Im using 8 SSD's on an Intel RS2BL080 SAS RAID Controller - PCI Express, so 4 cores 8 in theory, 8GB RAM overclocked it's very very fast!

I would love 500mhz more for the magic 5GHZ, this chip does 5.4 so it's the bord holding me back!

Danfoss2011 · 25 Jul 2011 at 19:48

Robbie G said:
Sounds fine. Just wait until better boards come out then flip it if you must have an extra 500MHz.

How's everything else? WiFi and drivers, sound, etc.? Have you managed to test any of the Z68-specific features yet?

Wifi i don't use.
Audio i use SPDIF Chord Optical to a cambridge audio dac magic, does sound good.
Not yet tried Z68 stuff, not sure what to do there.

I just got my mini pci exprese sata raid card today, 2 ports on. This is to go in place of the wifi card. It's a std SATA II 3Gbps and was £40. Im just about to test it out.

8 SSD's @ PCI-E 8X is fast!

I want to try and config the ethernet for one up and one down if possible

Danfoss2011 · 26 Jul 2011 at 08:39

Skyboat said:
How about Virtu?

All i've done is build the system in the following spec

I7 2600K @ 4.5Ghz
Zotac Z68
Intel RS2BL080 SAS RAID Controller
8 OCZ Agilty 3 60GB RAID 0
2 Port Mini PCI Express Internal SATA II Controller Card
Patriot Viper II Sector 5 Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-16000 C9 2000MHz
6 Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 64MB Cache
Corsair AX 1200
Windows 7 PRO OEM

All open on my desk currently.

Im going to trace out a backplate template so i can use my EK block on the 2600K.

Im using the onboard GFX which has played HD fine so far on a 60'' screen.

I got the mini sata controler to work perfectly and im able to boot off it as well which is handy. Fact i had XP Pro and W7 Pro both OEM, W7 on the 8 SSD's and XP on the mini pcie with 2 of the 2TB's!

I need to look and see what the Z68 offers other than over clocking and test it out.

Im currently tweaking the SSD RAID setup to get the best, getting over 1000 mbs

. Glad i got a nice discount on them!