Z68 Extreme4 Gen3

I'd go the Extreme4 Gen3 myself. I was thinking though, how come Asus, Gigabyte & co havent got they're PCI 3.0 boards out yet, anyone know
 
Probably because PCI-e 3.0 will only work when Ivybridge is released, this includes the Asrock boards. With Sandybridge the slots work in PCI-e 2.0 mode.
 
Good to see that these will be future proof for Ivy Bridge.
Well I for one will be upgrading at long last to gen 3 from my trusty quad core Q6700.
Am i right in saying Asrock are a division of Asus?
 
I've had a Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 installed since the weekend and i must says its a cracking board, lots of stuff packed in to it SUPER easy to over clock wen straight to 4.8ghz no prob. The "bios" is pretty good for my first board with a GUI driven bios it works well laded out well.

I've had a couple of tiny niggles with it the first being with my Razer deathadder left handed, in the bios UP and down mouse movement is swaped around, would have preferd a slightly different slot layout for my setup and wish I did'nt have to stare a Fatal1ty's face in the bios as well. Overall MUCH better than my old Z68 UD5 as i had nothing but issues and WOE with that so i would expect the Extreme 4/7 to be as good or better!
 
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KillBoY_UK, can I ask you what firmware you are running your Agility drives on and are you using the Intel RST drivers. If so which version. Thanks :)
 
shuffle said:
Good to see that these will be future proof for Ivy Bridge.
Well I for one will be upgrading at long last to gen 3 from my trusty quad core Q6700.
Am i right in saying Asrock are a division of Asus?
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Yes they are a division of Asus.


How are these boards for overclocking? I'm not really sure what mobo to get. Only real things I need are Xfire/SLI, fits sandybridge with futureproofing for ivybridge. A sata socket for an SSD and a HDD or two. Supports RAM up to 1600mhz+ DDR3. Don't want to spend more than £150 but if these boards are worth the extra tenner I'd be willing.
 
KillBoY_UK said:
I've had a Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 installed since the weekend and i must says its a cracking board, lots of stuff packed in to it SUPER easy to over clock wen straight to 4.8ghz no prob. The "bios" is pretty good for my first board with a GUI driven bios it works well laded out well.

I've had a couple of tiny niggles with it the first being with my Razer deathadder left handed, in the bios UP and down mouse movement is swaped around, would have preferd a slightly different slot layout for my setup and wish I did'nt have to stare a Fatal1ty's face in the bios as well. Overall MUCH better than my old Z68 UD5 as i had nothing but issues and WOE with that so i would expect the Extreme 4/7 to be as good or better!
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Strangely enough I'm rma'ing a cra**y ud4 after having nothing but trouble with it.

Waiting for ocuk to say these are in stock before I buy though been stung with pre-orders before:)
 
dazzerd said:
Strangely enough I'm rma'ing a cra**y ud4 after having nothing but trouble with it.

Waiting for ocuk to say these are in stock before I buy though been stung with pre-orders before:)
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well my UD5 loved to boot loop, fail to boot then go to bios defaults, buggered my Razer mouse with a very odd fault and yer tell it to shut down or go to sleep and it would do a full reboot
 
You should go visit an optician as you seem to have crooked eyes and if you spend a few minutes googling you will find the answer to your question.
 
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