When z77?

spankingtexan · 18 Mar 2012 at 07:55

Does anyone know when ocuk will have z77 boards for sale?

stulid · 18 Mar 2012 at 09:11

Maybe next month.

spankingtexan · 18 Mar 2012 at 14:46

Thanks

MrMark · 18 Mar 2012 at 14:58

i have seen 29th April mentioned

adriancal · 18 Mar 2012 at 15:02

MrMark said:
i have seen 29th April mentioned

I thinks that the cpu release date, the motherboard release date is in the
first or second week of april

tenshin111 · 18 Mar 2012 at 18:14

I have seen 9th April as the release date for Z77 mobos. Ivy Bridge CPUs will come a bit later.

P3N9U1N · 18 Mar 2012 at 18:18

a certain range of z77 boards did go on sale at a retailer in the UK early this month / late last month, whether they're still selling them or not I dont know...

reddev85 · 18 Mar 2012 at 19:02

Going by a few reviews of Z77 boards so far, the only major advantage they have over Z68 is native USB3.

If I was building a new machine now, I might have waited on Z77, but native USB3 is not enough to make me change my board. I'll be sticking with Z68 until Haswell most likely.

.Griff. · 18 Mar 2012 at 19:16

reddev85 said:
Going by a few reviews of Z77 boards so far, the only major advantage they have over Z68 is native USB3.

You forgot Lucid Virtu MVP.

Phyre · 19 Mar 2012 at 10:15

But for those of us who don't have Z68 boards, the Z77 is quite a large improvement.

SL09 · 19 Mar 2012 at 10:20

I would wait for ivy, then consider the board.

thenewoc · 19 Mar 2012 at 10:21

Did I not read somewhere that the ivy cpu enables the pcie 3.0?

spankingtexan · 20 Mar 2012 at 10:44

thenewoc said:
Did I not read somewhere that the ivy cpu enables the pcie 3.0?

It certainly does, that's the main reason I want z77. So looks like next month then :cool:

AMG · 20 Mar 2012 at 10:49

But Ivy CPUs also work on Z68 or most of them at least.

I may get one if the price is right but I got a feeling they are going to be priced quite a bit higher than Z68 boards. the thing the new chipset offers really is not much to be honest.

thenewoc · 20 Mar 2012 at 10:55

I think I also saw a tiny tim logan vid on youtube that suggested that the current graphics cards wouldn't be chocked by pcie 2.0. However, maybe it would help with a 7990. Also a little futureproofing to further upcoming gfx cards.

roachyuk · 20 Mar 2012 at 12:11

z77? is it replacing the z68....i was thinking of going up to a x79....is it wise to upgrade or wait?