Hey guys was thinking about getting this board over any p67 due to following :- - looks great, easy on the eyes - 4 sata3 ports off two controllers (marvell and intel) - better overclocking ? - intel smart response if required - Onboard sound features - oh yeah did I say it looks awesome ? Lol Am I a fool ? It's £20 more expensive compared to the p67 ud4 Thanks in advance P.s have an extensive hd movie collection and will hook Pc up to both tv and monitor. Will intel smart response help with loading times or is it pure DDR based ?
The current Gigabyte Z68 boards above and including UD4 are a joke - no graphical outputs means you lose pretty much everything from Z68 except that SSD caching.
And would you be using SSD Cache? Honestly, you would be better having a seperate SSD for boot if you can, and a spinner for a second. All you really have to go on here is the looks, and in that case its up to you if its worth paying for that. Checked the Asus boards? Got a P8P67 here which holds a 2500k@4.8Ghz without any issues 24x7. Personally, looks tidy too.
Was think to use a OCZ vertex 3 120gb for windows and games and a combo of 2TB HDD and 40gb intel SSD with smart response for media
If all you are streaming is video etc, you hardly need quick read rates, and that's all this will give you. A standard spinner will play 1080p MKV's without any issue so why bother? I think its a nice gimmick, but not really worth it if all you are using it with is a storage drive. IMHO, it just comes down to looks here.
Gigabyte seems to be off the boil with LGA 1155 - why not investigate the MSI GD 53 we reviewed on the site today; it's a great P67 mobo, for not a lot of cash.
A while back I had a i7 920 with 12gb of ddr3 and a spinpoint F3 and it would breeze through a 13gb godfather movie in 1080p. I could open and skip to anywhere in the movie with easy. Guessing I would say that was all the memory I had in it. If I don't use smart response its a saving of £70. I think im a fool I will just be buying this mobo on looks. I was trying my best to create a logical reason behind the purchase. Is there nothing to easy my mind into acceptance that the gigabyte z68 ud4 is maybe a small bit better??? Anyone ? Lol
Both Msi and Asus boards have great reviews and Many have recommended them but they just look ....... I'm not worried about money I just want something I can show off
That (or just the possibility of that) and Quicksync transcoding for a mere 20pounds...sounds good. DOn't understand why the Z68 get bashed here, they're not that much more expensive.
Z68 doesn't get bashed. Gigabyte non-GPU implementation of it gets bashed. Gigabyte Z68 implementations without DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort/DSUB output doesn't have QuickSync, they have pretty much none of the Z68 features except the SSD caching. That is the only feature which made through.
Or pick another case lol. Imagine that mobo with a sleek corsair h70 with low profile xms3 classic ddr3 and a pair of gtx 580s and a sexy sleek (most probs asus) sound card (have not picked one yet) I feel young again is an understatement.
I want to hook this up to my tv so a lack of hdmi is a bit annoying but nothing too bad as I can just output a gtx580 onto the tv. Can't i?
I know what are you talking about, but again - wait for the version with graphic ouputs (older picture, fans have been replaced with Air Penetrators in meantime) :
Any advantages for having graphic outputs on mobo? I'll be putting gtx580s in SLI in it. Want to use it with a samsung smart tv and my dell ultrasharp.
If nothing else, then QuickSync. Then the possibility to use it as a backup option if anything goes wrong with you nvidia cards...
As you need virtu for quicksync anyway, you wouldn't need a video-out on the board to perform quicksync? Just use your discrete Graphics out.
