Opinions on these Z68 motherboards, please :)

Rec · 9 Sep 2011 at 22:59

I was considering the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 myself. Although I just read this review for it and they weren't that impressed with it. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2011/09/09/asrock-z68-extreme4-gen3-review/1

chippy08 · 9 Sep 2011 at 23:20

Rec said:
I was considering the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 myself. Although I just read this review for it and they weren't that impressed with it. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2011/09/09/asrock-z68-extreme4-gen3-review/1

I agree the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 does seem slower and takes longer to fire up and longer to shut down so i would consider this board Asus P8Z68-V PRO gets good reviews and it will be the faster of the 2 boards.
I had the Asus P8Z68-V only sent back because of 2 faulty boards but it felt much quicker when using it.

fowler002 · 9 Sep 2011 at 23:31

Ultim8 said:
Well if that is the case how come you are wrong?

http://www.h-online.com/security/ne...ude-secure-boot-using-UEFI-2-3-1-1335246.html

UEFI 2.3.1 will allow secure boot for enterprise and business, which by the way nobody supports yet as intel hasnt developed this version yet and will only come once there panther point chipsets become available in 2010.

I suggest you check with HQ again before you start throwing mud at other brands as it looks very unprofessional.

we're nearing the end of 2011

Ak!ta · 10 Sep 2011 at 02:24

Well i would go for the Asrock without a doubt.... loads up in around 5/6 secs (with SSD) and shuts down fast aswell.... no problems whatsoever.

Ak!ta · 10 Sep 2011 at 02:37

chippy08 said:
I agree the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 does seem slower and takes longer to fire up and longer to shut down so i would consider this board Asus P8Z68-V PRO gets good reviews and it will be the faster of the 2 boards.
I had the Asus P8Z68-V only sent back because of 2 faulty boards but it felt much quicker when using it.

How exactly will it be faster ?

Ultim8 · 10 Sep 2011 at 09:23

fowler002 said:
we're nearing the end of 2011

Doh well spotted, fixed

Davefran · 10 Sep 2011 at 10:01

Rec said:
I was considering the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 myself. Although I just read this review for it and they weren't that impressed with it. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2011/09/09/asrock-z68-extreme4-gen3-review/1

I ran Atto to check their results against my own they say :-

We tested the SATA and performance with an OCZ Vertex 3 240GB, as this is the fastest SSD we've ever tested, and it can test the maximum speed of SATA 3Gbps and SATA 6Gbps ports.

We use ATTO Disk Benchmark, and take the read and write speeds for 1,024KB data chunks.
ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 (Intel P67 SATA 6Gbps) 325MB/s Read 362MB/s Write

My results with a 60GB Agility 3 (they use a 240GB Vertex 3, which should be faster)
554MB/s Read 492MB/s Write :confused:

Davefran · 10 Sep 2011 at 10:06

chippy08 said:
I agree the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 does seem slower and takes longer to fire up and longer to shut down so i would consider this board Asus P8Z68-V PRO gets good reviews and it will be the faster of the 2 boards.
I had the Asus P8Z68-V only sent back because of 2 faulty boards but it felt much quicker when using it.

The Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 is faster than either those two Asus boards, has more features. AND you won't have to send it back

chippy08 · 10 Sep 2011 at 11:00

Dave have you had any of the Asus z68 boards yourself to try ?

samhain · 11 Sep 2011 at 23:58

Bit confused about the great review at vortex and the relatively average review for the extreme4 gen3 elsewhere. Who is right?

Putting it into perspective of course it is probably negligible differences

CinderzFTW · 12 Sep 2011 at 00:55

I like the Extreme gen 3...

Great OCing and runs very cool and gets great results against over boards in PC Format Mag

mishima · 18 Sep 2011 at 11:03

samhain said:
Bit confused about the great review at vortex and the relatively average review for the extreme4 gen3 elsewhere. Who is right?

Putting it into perspective of course it is probably negligible differences

Its Vortez not Vortex btw

The Extreme4 Gen3 is a solid board as I outlined in my review, I have no idea how Bit-tech came to the results they did, I have heard that their articles as of late have been somewhat wanting based on their own reader comments on their reviews.

There are quite a few on OcUK that have this mobo after my recommendation and if you ask them - they will vouch for it being a brilliant buy!

Nemeses · 18 Sep 2011 at 14:40

Ultim8 said:
Well if that is the case how come you are wrong?

http://www.h-online.com/security/ne...ude-secure-boot-using-UEFI-2-3-1-1335246.html

UEFI 2.3.1 will allow secure boot for enterprise and business, which by the way nobody supports yet as intel hasnt developed this version yet and will only come once there panther point chipsets become available in 2012.

I suggest you check with HQ again before you start throwing mud at other brands as it looks very unprofessional.

Not sure how that makes him wrong, as they guessing as well?

When it is released in 2012, Windows 8 – though possibly only versions aimed at professional and enterprise use – will be able to use the UEFI secure boot function

Clearly shows they not sure if it will just be those, none of them at all or all the versions of windows 8

“Topics in this session include: wow a future platform would evolve with advanced features in
firmware using the latest UEFI protocol and services; [and] technical details of the latest Windows* 8 platform requirements including UEFI boot and security will be discussed.”

And from that you could take it that it could very well be a integrated part which would make it a must, MS have never being scared of forcing a hardware change on us to use there new software.

And +1 for Asrock Extreme4 gen3

bakes0310 · 18 Sep 2011 at 16:27

mishima said:
Its Vortez not Vortex btw The Extreme4 Gen3 is a solid board as I outlined in my review, I have no idea how Bit-tech came to the results they did, I have heard that their articles as of late have been somewhat wanting based on their own reader comments on their reviews.

There are quite a few on OcUK that have this mobo after my recommendation and if you ask them - they will vouch for it being a brilliant buy!

Dont change mishima be honest with your reviews no matter who pats your bum.
Thanks to your review im going with Asrock aswell