Z68 Questions

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I'm contemplating upgrading my aging P5Q Pro/E8400@4GHz system to a nice shiney 2500K@<whatever> system,

From what I have read overclocking with the Sandy Bridge chipsets is 'simply' increase multipler/maybe voltage, and job done, if this is the case then does the actual motherboard make much difference?

I believe the cheapest Z68 OcUK sell, the Gigabyte Z68A-D3 for £72, seems to have all the slots/functionality I need and is considerably cheaper than some of the other Z68 boards, would this hold me back from overclocking, or are there any glaring issues with it that I may have missed?

Cheers in advance for any help.
 
The Gigabyte P67 and Z68 boards have been poor overclockers. My P67 was difficult to get stable at 4.5ghz. I have read the same with the Z68 boards. If you can stretch to the ASrock Z68 Pro3 is the best overclocker board under £100
 
Personally I only use GB boards. My P67A-UD4 will do 4.5 ghz everything on auto, just raise the multi. Any higher needs voltage increase so didn't bother trying for max oc.

You would get a overclock out of cheaper boards but I wouldn't push them to far.

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Thats with a 2600k.
 
SKILL said:
I believe the cheapest Z68 OcUK sell, the Gigabyte Z68A-D3 for £72, seems to have all the slots/functionality I need and is considerably cheaper than some of the other Z68 boards, would this hold me back from overclocking, or are there any glaring issues with it that I may have missed?

Cheers in advance for any help.
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It has no Lucid virtu or Quicksync and has no display outputs, its shameful to call it a Z68 board.
 
varkanoid said:
The Gigabyte P67 and Z68 boards have been poor overclockers. My P67 was difficult to get stable at 4.5ghz. I have read the same with the Z68 boards. If you can stretch to the ASrock Z68 Pro3 is the best overclocker board under £100
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Ah, didn't realise the overclocking was compromised, read a link from another post and seen a similar report (albeit 'only' 4.7GHz rather than 4.8 :p)

Atom said:
Personally I only use GB boards. My P67A-UD4 will do 4.5 ghz everything on auto, just raise the multi. Any higher needs voltage increase so didn't bother trying for max oc.

You would get a overclock out of cheaper boards but I wouldn't push them to far.

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Thats with a 2600k.
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The overclock is probably the most important bit really, although I've used gigabyte before with no issues it then wasn't the best clocking either.

stulid said:
It has no Lucid virtu or Quicksync and has no display outputs, its shameful to call it a Z68 board.
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To be fair those things don't matter to me in the slightest, but as above the OC'ing does so probably worth paying the extra for the Asrock one.

Cheers all :)
 
The Giagbyte has a 4phase vrm setup, the Asrock has a 4+1+1, and a few reviews of the Asrock show it to do 4.5ghz easily.
 
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