| ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Motherboard Components |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Motherboards | |||||||
| Written by David Ramsey | |||||||
| Monday, 23 April 2012 | |||||||
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P8Z77-V Deluxe Final ThoughtsWith Intel having moved most so much support circuitry into the CPU in recent years, basic motherboard functions require just two main chips: the CPU itself and what we used to call the "south bridge", in this case the Z77 Express chipset. What this means is that any Z77 motherboard will have a defined set of base features and offer similar performance at stock clock speeds. Vendors must then work to distinguish their products. They can do this in a number of ways, but for the P8Z77-V Deluxe ASUS has chosen to add tons of extra features. These features come with a hefty price tag, though: for $274.99 at Newegg, this is the second-most expensive Z77 motherboard Newegg currently offers, beaten only by ASUS' own P8Z77 WS workstation motherboard at $339.99.
But that high price buys you the most feature-laden Z77 board I've seen yet. If some of the features are of dubious utility (I don't personally know anyone who uses DLNA), many enthusiasts will definitely appreciate things like eight USB 3.0 ports and the ability to run more than two graphics cards. Toss in features like USB 3.0 Boost, prioritizable network traffic control, and Fan Xpert 2, and you've a board you'll be able to fine-tune to your exact needs. Benchmark Reviews invites you to leave constructive feedback below, or ask questions in our Discussion Forum.
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Comments
Dividing the reviews up into 3 separate pieces seems fraught with problems. One problem will be that the author seemingly has to make conclusions simply based on an "apparent" list of features, which has not been thoroughly tested. Eventually this will devolve into not being able to make many conclusions at all.
It seems it would be better to have a list of "required" tests that most reviewers would complete, in order to reduce the time it takes to review a board.
Perhaps some of the benchmarks are superfluous?
Additionally, by dividing the review up into 3 pieces, the reader will often feel the review was incomplete.
The Author will have to take the time to back track and forward link and backward link the old articles to and from the new articles on the same topic.
Overall, I think splitting up the review does a disservice to the reader as well as to the author.
It is agreed that reviewing a motherboard takes more time now. In that case the alternatives would be reduce the number of benchmarks to the ones that REALLY have something unique to offer. Possibly send out 2 motherboards to 2 reviewers and have them co-author the review.
(Just an opinion).
All the best, M
We are dependent on review samples from vendors, and I doubt we could get them to send us two of everything!
As for feature reviews it would be lovely if you could provide more insight than what is provided on the ASUS web site. ie: Whay it is good &/or does it really make a difference. ie: IS the USB 3.0 really faster, or does it only work with with specific devices.
Your Comparison reviews are even more valuable. Having a Table showing the distinguishing features between models / vendors is a real time saver. ie: These cards have 2 netcards, these only have 1. These do 64GB, those only have 32Gb. etc
Thanks for the reviews
Keep up the good work. But keep it in one big review.
This motherboard is one of the best I've seen from ASUS and they are my favorite mobo manufacturer. I would love to see a review and comparison with the WS product.
Good luck with the new review format, David - it will be a challenge to keep all the results correlated and easily available. I look forward to your next writeup.
But I think the author does not not mean that he/she will not complete his/her assessment of new tech all at once. Just putting access to it in 3 parts in 3 different, consecutive sessions.