Upgrade to iCore

[Peter Tsang]

Hi folks,

Now that I have a new graphics card, SATA-3 hard drive, 6600T case and the H60 cooler.

I want to upgrade to iCore, and keep my Q6600 in my bank's safe box.

I need advise on the motherboard seriously. What do you folks think about Asus P8Z68-V-PRO?

And by the way, are USB 3.0 bandwidth fully utilitzed?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Best regards
Peter

 

[Peter Tsang]

Good board, but I'd get a gen 3 motherboard (PCIE 3.0 + Ivybridge support). Else it's good, but personally, I'd still get a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD4



Not really sure. There are some SATA3 USB memory sticks around, and possibly external hard drive enclosures. The only devices I can think off that would really benefit from it.

What good would Z68XP-UD4 do, please enlighten me? Thanks!

Unless things have changed between the P67 and Z68 chipsets then, afaik, you won't get the full speed possible from USB 3.0.
The X58 chipsets are the only way to get the full speed, unless there are some half way decent USB 3.0 PCI cards about.

Excuse me, do you mean that X58 is superior than Z68 and P67, sorry I am not really into the chipset side of things, so please tell me more, thank!!