***Official***Z68X/P67A-UD7 Club/Discussion/Info**

[Lanek]

Agreed, I know the main thing I would like to see in a comparo is if one board can get any extra Mhz or mem speed over the other. Were there any differences there? That is the main reason why I would buy 1 board over another if they were in the same class. I did find the 3d comparos interesting however. I really didnt expect MIVE to do any better in 3D.

Yes, + get infos on how the bios and voltage ( vdrop? etc ) are working in OC situation... Anyway high end motherboard are closer of each other now, i remember buying DFI NF4 SLI DR and CFX3200 just cause they was the only board where BH5 have enough Voltage for work. ( good old time )

[sin0822]

I know it can never be perfect, but that is why I also don't like to judge boards like that. You can have baseline benchmarks(with everything the same, down to the SSD/hdd and OS), but that shouldn't be the significant part of judging the boards performance. personally even in my reviews, i don't like running bechmarks on a board. I feel as if you OC the board and then compare the percent improvments with the overclocks ont he same board is a much better guage of the boards performance. i feel they give the user a number dependant on the CPU, RAM, GPU not the board. Its not like one board uses different material for the traces and transfer data differently, nto yet at least. I know its how boards are reviewed, and that is why i feel as though motherboard reviews should be done differently, with more emphasis on features and overclocking, and less on benchmarks.

I also feel as though BLCK has everything to do with the CPU, and not the board. That OC guide for Sb that originally came out said that BLCk was dependent on the board, ASUS themselves said its dependant on the CPU, and i agree with the CPu dependance, after testing more than one CPU, i found that one CPu does 107.5blck and the other does 106.5 the 107.5 has a 4.8ghz limit and the 106.5 has a 5.2ghz limit. Kinda struck me as odd.

i remember the BH5 days, i still have my sticks

[btdvox]

The bios has problems with all 4 RAM slots full. Running 4 X 4 GB is much different than 2 X 4 GB. I think the bios does not like anything above 1333 with 16 Gigs of ram.

Gonna test more today though.

[bassplayer]

The bios has problems with all 4 RAM slots full. Running 4 X 4 GB is much different than 2 X 4 GB. I think the bios does not like anything above 1333 with 16 Gigs of ram.

Gonna test more today though.

16GB of memory is going to be a huge stress on the IMC. What kind of QPI are you running?

[btdvox]

16GB of memory is going to be a huge stress on the IMC. What kind of QPI are you running?

Ive tried increments from 1.05 - 1.16
Not going to go higher than that. I've decided to return one kit, and admit that 16GB vs 8GB is prob overkill, seeing as I was fine with 6GB on my X58 lol

Decided to buy a C300 to take advantage of SATA 3!