Z68 BLOWOUT! VERY LIMITED DEALS!

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It's Friday! Epic deal time. We have some fantastic deals on the latest and greatest Intel Z68 motherboards. Search "Z68DEAL" on our store page to view all our offers. Deal pricing is only available until close of business tonight!

Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard @ £73.98 inc VAT

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- Z68 Chipset
- Award winning motherboard
- SATA 6GB/s & USB 3.0 Support
- Crossfire Support
- 3 Year Warranty

Was £84.99 Inc. VAT

Only £73.98 inc VAT.

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Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard @ £135.98 inc VAT

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By adapting PCI-E 3.0 quick switch IC onboard, the ASRock motherboards can support the Next-Gen PCI-E 3.0! PCI Express 3.0 can maximize the bandwidth for the next-gen PCI Express 3.0 VGA cards, provide ultimate graphics performance. AsRock XFast LAN is a smart productivity tool to help you manage your priorities of internet applications, simplify your digital life and accomplish more. The innovative features include : Internet Application Prioritization, Lower Latency in Game, Traffic Shaping and Real-Time Analysis of Your Data. It's the smartest way to control your web programs.

ASRock XFast USB Technology redefines the new standard in high performance computing. Proving once again to be the pioneer in motherboard industry, ASRock XFast USB Series Motherboards integrate with the latest XFast USB Technology which delivers the world's fastest USB data transfer speed. According to the below graph, it shows that the ASRock XFast USB technology can even boost USB 3.0 performance up to 386.14%!

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a revolutionary BIOS utility which offers tweak-friendly options in an advanced viewing interface. Compared with traditional BIOS design, the latest UEFI utility provides lots improved functions. The major features of UEFI include:
1. Graphical Visual Experience – UEFI provides an improved visual interface with colorful icons and makes your computing environment more versatile to replace the traditional dull BIOS page.
2. Mouse Enabling – Besides keyboard control, you can freely use mouse to select your ideal settings in UEFI as well.
3. Supports 3TB bootable HDD - UEFI breaks the limitations of 2TB bootable HDD on traditional BIOS. With UEFI, you can enjoy 3TB bootable HDD size.

With Lucid Virtu software, next-generation PCs with 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor platforms will dynamically assign tasks in real time to the best available graphics resource based on power, performance and features.

Compared with others Z68 chipset motherboard which brings limited PCI-E lanes, ASRock Z68 motherboard break the limitation and offer sufficient PCI-E lanes solution by embedding PLX PEX8608 chip onboard. Users can simply enjoy all PCI-E devices.

Was £159.98 Inc. VAT

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Gigabyte Z68X-UD5 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard @ £119.99 inc VAT

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- Z68 Chipset
- Unlimited Overclocking
- SATA 6GB/s & USB 3.0
- Crossfire & SLI Support
- 3 Yeear Warranty

Was £189.98 Inc. VAT

Only £119.99 inc VAT.

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Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard @ £112.99 inc VAT

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Exclusive to ASUS motherboards, its UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the first ever mouse-controlled graphical BIOS interface designed with dual selectable modes. It delivers a user-friendly interface that goes beyond traditional keyboard-only BIOS controls to enable more flexible and convenient input with quick scrolling. Users can easily navigate the UEFI BIOS with the smoothness of their operating system. Quick and simple overclocking and setup sharing is facilitated by the F12 hotkey BIOS snapshot feature. The exclusive EZ Mode displays frequently-accessed setup info, while the Advanced Mode is for experienced performance enthusiasts that demand far more intricate system control, including detailed DRAM information.


Was £133.98 Inc. VAT

Only £112.99 inc VAT.

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Slipperz said:
I went for the Asrock in the end, thanks for the heads up!! Now to buy all the other bits :)
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hope for your sake it doesn't come with bent/missing pins(be prepared to spend another £60/£70 getting it fixed and don't expect ocuk to be helpful as clearly boards DON'T come with damaged pins and it's obviously the buyers fault) or give you any of the other documented asrock board issues.

I'm tempted by the ud5 as my extreme7 is buggered and ocuk don't want anything to do with it(as obviously I dropped something in the socket or touched, as according to the rma guy there's no other way to damage it and the boards don't arrive damaged), but due to that I'm wary of buying this.
 
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Sad to see more posts about bent pins on ASrock, seen a few now.

But still +1 for the asrock board its running nicely in my system!
 
fowler002 said:
hope for your sake it doesn't come with bent/missing pins(be prepared to spend another £60/£70 getting it fixed and don't expect ocuk to be helpful as clearly boards DON'T come with damaged pins and it's obviously the buyers fault) or give you any of the other documented asrock board issues.

I'm tempted by the ud5 as my extreme7 is buggered and ocuk don't want anything to do with it(as obviously I dropped something in the socket or touched, as according to the rma guy there's no other way to damage it and the boards don't arrive damaged), but due to that I'm wary of buying this.
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They always blame the customer shocking really the way they treat customers.
 
fowler002 said:
hope for your sake it doesn't come with bent/missing pins(be prepared to spend another £60/£70 getting it fixed and don't expect ocuk to be helpful as clearly boards DON'T come with damaged pins and it's obviously the buyers fault) or give you any of the other documented asrock board issues.

I'm tempted by the ud5 as my extreme7 is buggered and ocuk don't want anything to do with it(as obviously I dropped something in the socket or touched, as according to the rma guy there's no other way to damage it and the boards don't arrive damaged), but due to that I'm wary of buying this.
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fowler002 any experienced person setting up a system checks the socket before installing the CPU and if found to have any damage when purchased, it can be sent back under DSR in a week, they can't question you why you returned it. Also nothing wrong with Asrock boards, it is user error causing the damage or setting them up wrong, only current fault with some of the Asrock boards (mine does not have this problem Z68 PRO GEN3, tried with 5 different USB mice) is the BIOS/UEFI detects the USB mouse upside down and it is not all mice it does that with, it seems some USB mouse makers are adding some strange things to how their mice work and don't function correctly as Legacy devices, nothing to do with Asrock this, but they are working on fixing it for the ones still having the problem and have fixed it for many so far. Other fault they had was adding a soundcard was causing some problem but once they were told they sent out a BIOS update and cured that, there is no other known faults with them. So as you see there is no fault that is a deal breaker with these boards, the mouse problem is easily cured by using the keyboard to navigate the BIOS/UEFI, how long do you spend in you BIOS/UEFI ? See what I mean ?

Your one bad experience does not mean everyone is going to have these problems, also you should have sent the board back immediately if it had a fault that was so obvious like a damaged socket, you take pictures of the socket for your records and return it for a replacement under DSR simples. OCUK would not have said anything to you then. People that crush or bend pins on sockets have only themselves to blame if they tried installing the CPU and causing that damage to a socket (should have been checked before installing) that was 100% fine. Also not sending the board back immediately only says to me the board was working fine and later for some reason you decided to take the CPU out and damaged the socket doing so. See my point ? That's why you have 7 days under DSR, after the 7 days you are basicaly saying you are happy with the product and the condition it came in.

I have purchased many 1000's of motherboards and replaced many 1000's of CPUs in my time and never damaged a socket where it can't be used and never had one that came to me damaged from many board makers be them server boards or desktop boards. Only time I remember bending a pin on a socket was when I dropped a screwdriver and it bounced into the socket bending slightly one pin and I used a small tweezer and put it back in place and was as good as new.


So the real advice is check when you have a motherboard delivered to you that the CPU socket and it's pins look fine if you don't plan to setup the system in the 7days you have for DSR.


Asrock were a part of Asus by the way in the past, I see you go around telling people to buy Asus, the boards are probably still being made in the same factory as the Asus boards under the same quality control. ;). They are great boards just as good as Asus boards which I normally use for my home builds, I have had many Asrock boards for work desktops, because they make old socket boards for a long time after the main board makers have stopped and have used their boards to replace faulty motherboards many times and can't remember one of their boards not working when I installed it or any stress from them, they just worked and worked very well and their pricing is very good for replacing older faulty boards with a new one.

I currently have an Asrock Fatal1ty Z68 Pro Gen3 intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard in my system and worked from the 1st minute I set it up and not caused me any problems and the quality control was amazing on the board and even the packaging/manual was fantastic quality. I owned an Asus P5Q Deluxe before this board and that was a good board and this one makes the P5Q Deluxe look like it was made in the 80's, that is how good the board is soldered and put together and the quality components used on it, the circuit board is a work of art and many layers thick and amazing how good of a job they have done putting that together. I'm looking at it as a component and could care less about the name and their boards say to me quality and they have done that trying to get a name in the high end market, they were always a budget board maker in the past, not anymore ;).


So Asrock fantastic boards and the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard @ £135.98 inc VAT is a fantastic deal for a great board by OCUK. If I was planning on building a 2nd build for myself or a friend or family member it would be that board, I purchased the Pro because I need the IDE and Floppy connectors for my work and it supported more SATA HD, at work I have to sometimes move servers/desktops with old IDE drives to SATA or SAS drives and the Pro board had every feature I need including a serial port header which I use to program work devices with too.
 
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Purgatory said:
fowler002 any experienced person setting up a system checks the socket before installing the CPU and if found to have any damage when purchased, it can be sent back under DSR in a week, they can't question you why you returned it. Also nothing wrong with Asrock boards, it is user error causing the damage or setting them up wrong, only fault with some of the Asrock boards is the BIOS/UEFI detects the mouse upside down and it is not all mice it does that with, it seems some mouse makers are adding some strange things to how their mice work and don't function correctly as Legacy devices, nothing to do with Asrock this, but they are working on fixing it for the ones still having the problem and have fixed it for many so far.

Your one bad experience does not mean everyone is going to have these problems, also you should have sent the board back immediately if it had a fault that was so obvious like a damaged socket, you take pictures of the socket for your records and return it for a replacement under DSR simples. OCUK would not have said anything to you then. People that crush or bend pins on sockets have only themselves to blame if they tried installing the CPU and causing that damage to a socket (should have been checked before installing) that was 100% fine. Also not sending the board back immediately only says to me the board was working fine and later for some reason you decided to take the CPU out and damaged the socket doing so. See my point ? thats why you have 7 days under DSR, after the 7 days you are basicaly saying you are happy with the product and the condition it came in.

I have purchased many 1000's of motherboards and replaced many 1000's of CPUs in my time and never damaged a socket and never had one that came to me damaged from many board makers be them server boards or desktop boards. Only time I remember bending a pin on a socket was when I dropped a screwdriver and it bounced into the socket bending slightly one pin and I used a small tweezer and put it back in place and was as good as new.


So the real advice is check when you have a motherboard delivered to you that the CPU socket and it's pins look fine if you don't plan to setup the system in the 7days you have for DSR.


Asrock were a part of Asus by the way in the past, I see you go around telling people to buy Asus, the boards are probably still being made in the same factory as the Asus boards under the same quality control. ;). They are great boards just as good as Asus boards which I normally use for my home builds, I have had many Asrock boards for work desktops, because they make old socket boards for a long time after the main board makers have stopped and have used their boards to replace faulty motherboards many times and can't remember one of their boards not working when I installed it or any stress from them, they just worked and worked very well and their pricing is very good for replacing older faulty boards with a new one.

I currently have an Asrock Fatal1ty Z68 Pro Gen3 intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard in my system and worked from the 1st minute I set it up and not caused me any problems and the quality control was amazing on the board and even the packaging/manual was fantastic quality. I owned a Asus P5Q Deluxe before this board and that was a good board and this one makes it look like it was made in the 80's that is how good the board is soldered and put together and the quality components used on it, the circuit board is a work of art and many layers thick and amazing how good of a job they have done putting that together. I'm looking at it as a component and could care less about the name and their boards say to me quality and they have done that trying to get a name in the high end market, they were always a budget board maker in the past, not anymore ;).


So Asrock fantastic boards and the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard @ £135.98 inc VAT is a fantastic deal for a great board by OCUK. If I was planning on building a 2nd build for myself or a friend or family member it would be that board, I purchased the Pro because I need the IDE and Floppy connectors for my work and it supported more SATA HD, because I have to sometimes move servers/desktops with old IDE drives to SATA or SAS drives.
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well I can't be bothered to read all that drivel, you basically saying I caused the damage myself put me off reading it.

and I couldn't send it off under dsr I didn't open the motherboard to build the pc until couple weeks ago, I received the board on 7th sepetember but from then till the time I took it out of the box it had sat in it's box in my cupboard for over a month. first I didn't have the parts to start the build, then on 17th September I had to go away for 3weeks(personal issues and not for public forum discussion).

I did a quick inspection of the pins, but seeing as this was my first 1155 board I didn't know if all the pins were fine or not.

after i had everything fitted and turned the pc on it didn't post with ram in slot 1&3(error 45) so i took 1 stick and tested it in each slot with 3&4not posting(error 45), so what part of that says to you I had the pc running for x amour of time then took the CPU out for some reason?

and as for your claim about ocuk taking it back under dsr, if you read the rma email it says they check the returned item even under dsr.

and as I've said the guy I spoke said only way to damage the socket is by dropping something into it or touching the pins of which I did neither(which point he called me a liar) when I said to him all I did was put the CPU into the socket(only way it can go in) he said the CPU doesn't have anything that could bend the pins.

I may not be as 'experienced' as you but I know how to pug in and take out a CPU without causing damage to the pins.
 
Mate i'm not saying you did it, what I mean is it should have been checked when it was delivered and you can't say to me you can't tell if a pin is bent, it is very obvious when they are bent and don't look anything like the pins around them.To OCUK it looked like after the 7 days DSR period you had a fully functioning board and later you had a problem with it and caused the damage, normally a customer would return and report a faulty product in that week. I'm sorry you had to go threw that headache, but you set yourself up for that fall, always make sure to have all the parts you need to make a working system and test it in that week window you have under DSR, OCUK can't refuse to refund you in that week DSR protects you that way aslong as you have sent the item back stating you want a refund and want it done under DSR. No supplier can refuse that, it is in law to protect customers from such things and bad sellers that sell faulty items to their customers. OCUK are a quality company and have always dealt with any problem I had politely and correctly, I have never had to return anything to them but did have a missing invoice for my flight stick and did ask 3 times for it and on the 3rd time I did get it via email instantly with an apology. I just needed it for my records the invoice and for any future warranty claims if the flight stick died.
 
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Mate i'm not saying you did it, what I mean is it should have been checked when it was delivered and you can't say to me you can't tell if a pin is bent, it is very obvious when they are bent and don't look anything like the pins around them.To OCUK it looked like after the 7 days DSR period you had a fully functioning board and later you had a problem with it and caused the damage, normally a customer would return and report a faulty product in that week. I'm sorry you had to go threw that headache, but you set yourself up for that fall, always make sure to have all the parts you need to make a working system and test it in that week window you have under DSR, OCUK can't refuse to refund you in that week DSR protects you that way aslong as you have sent the item back stating you want a refund and want it done under DSR. No supplier can refuse that, it is in law to protect customers from such things and bad sellers that sell faulty items to their customers. OCUK are a quality company and have always dealt with any problem I had politely and correctly, I have never had to return anything to them but did have a missing invoice for my flight stick and did ask 3 times for it and on the 3rd time I did get it via email instantly with an apology. I just needed it for my records the invoice and for any future warranty claims if the flight stick died.
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all fine and dandy but it doesn't mean their cs staff can call me a liar over the phone, they could simply have said sorry but its company policy and we can't help or some such.

its the fact that the guy blatently called me a liar and was adament that there is only 2 ways the pins can be bent/damaged, also that due to the checks before the boards are sent out you CAN'T get a board with bent/missing pin/s and anyone claiming such is just a big fat liar(well he did use big fat liars but said that they're lying to get refund/replacement).
 
Agree that is not the polite way to deal with a customer, happy to say never had any such issues. (Knock on wood). Mate if you still have that motherboard send it to Asrock they will replace it for you, I think their europe support is based in the Netherlands, check their website im sure it will say there and get it RMA-ed to them, always heard good things about their support and RMA's.
 
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Agree that is not the polite way to deal with a customer, happy to say never had any such issues. (Knock on wood). Mate if you still have that motherboard send it to Asrock they will replace it for you, I think their europe support is based in the Netherlands, check their website im sure it will say there and get it RMA-ed to them, always heard good things about their support and RMA's.
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yes that is my next step but that'll cost another £35(after the £35 it cost me in the rejected rma to ocuk which included ther test/return fee and my cost of sending to them), asrock ask for 25euros/£15 to cover the return shipping cost and the cost to sending to them is ~£20(or £30 if I want to insure the parcel for more than £50) tho I've not asked at the post office the £20 cost is from parcel2go.com

this board will end up costing me just shy of £300, only bought it in the first place due to it being £210 pre-order.
 
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