Looking forward to this, thanks.I'll investigate the P8H77-I/3570K overclocking situation in the next few days when I receive my CPU.
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Looking forward to this, thanks.I'll investigate the P8H77-I/3570K overclocking situation in the next few days when I receive my CPU.
What water cooling systems have been confirmed to work with this mobo? I'm looking at the SG07/08 so I guess it'd have to fit in that chassis too.
Currently stable at 4.2ghz without any change in voltages. H80 with one GT on push. What overclocks are you guys getting?
Antec 620 fits with a bit of work to mount the backplate. Works well for me.
Looking forward to this, thanks.
That's really bad indeed...Thx for the info anyway.
The only other H77 board that i know of is the Intel one, but people report problems on it.
- 4 pin Antec Kuhler 620 H2O pump into the VGA board mini-pwm header
What type of miniSATA cable are you guys using to plug a SSD?
Something like this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186158
It boots a lot faster than the Asus Z77, from personal experience.
From pressing the power button to the Windows logo:
Asus Z77 ~8 seconds
ASRock Z77 ~3 seconds
Thanks! Woah, that's a pretty big difference.
Did you actually count though? 3 seconds sounds insane.. that would result in a possibly less than 10 seconds boot time for me!
I am a bit concerned. You can see my thread asking if I should go Asrock or Asus....leaning towards the Asrock for price and features but that poor CPU placement is bugging me a lot.
Has anyone had any issues with CPU coolers/vid card clearance on the Asrock??
How? Sure the 8pin is up front on the Asus, but the Sata ports aren't located in the most ideal location. I realize Asus couldn't put them up top due to socket placement, but having owned both boards, I think wire management is about equal.The Asus itx board has the best layout in my opinion. Easy to wire manage everything.
I've been booting UEFI/GPT since this board was released. The Asus and Asrock both handle UEFI/GPT installs the exact same way. All you do is hit F11 during bootup then select UEFI DVD or UEFI USB, depending on which method you're using to install the OS. Windows Boot Manager (seen below) is my UEFI partition that boots my Plextor M3. I also added a screenshot showing my C drive is indeed GPT partitioned.I own both right now, and so far I like the ASRock a bit more.
Having said that, it doesn't seem to support UEFI boot thus far, or I just haven't found that option yet.
So keep that in mind, as most of you probably missed that little problem.
You don't even need a board with UEFI to make a 3TB+ drive GPT unless you're trying to boot off it. You convert it with diskpart and even if someone wanted to boot off a 3TB+ drive, the Asrock can do it.No, I mean booting from a GPT/GUID partition and/or single partitions larger than 3TB.
The Asus P8Z77-I Deluxe supports that, the ASRock doesn't seem to, or I'm missing the option to do so entirely.
It boots a lot faster than the Asus Z77, from personal experience.
From pressing the power button to the Windows logo:
Asus Z77 ~8 seconds
ASRock Z77 ~3 seconds
I've been booting UEFI/GPT since this board was released. The Asus and Asrock both handle UEFI/GPT installs the exact same way. All you do is hit F11 during bootup then select UEFI DVD or UEFI USB, depending on which method you're using to install the OS. Windows Boot Manager (seen below) is my UEFI partition that boots my Plextor M3. I also added a screenshot showing my C drive is indeed GPT partitioned.
Sorry but I am new to this UEFI Boot....what is it?
Benefits of a UEFI/GPT boot disk vs. MBR:
Although not currently applicable to SSDs, GPT disks can exceed the 2.2TB bootable limit of a MBR partitioned drive. MBR drives are limited to four partition table entries, unless a secondary "extended" partition structure is created.
Data critical to platform operation is located in partitions, and not in un-partitioned or "hidden" sectors which in certain instances, can lead to system instability. Data contained in hidden sectors that result in system problems are difficult to debug.
GPT disks use primary and backup partition tables for redundancy and 32-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC32) fields for improved partition data structure integrity.
A UEFI boot is more secure, and less vulnerable to pre-boot malware.
A system utilizing a UEFI boot, will boot and recover from sleep faster than the same machine using MBR.
UEFI is the future, and as different implementations of UEFI mature, UEFI will be used for much more than just booting a computer
Quoting Sean Webster from over@ OCN - http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds#