ASUS P8Z77-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

by Asus

• Wi-Fi GO! - Rich Features for the Home Environment: multimedia management, diverse remote control, Internet sharing and quick data sharing
• Fan Xpert 2 - Fan Auto Tuning function for optimized speed control and settings for each individual fan
• ASUS USB 3.0 Boost - Set USB 3.0 devices into 3 modes: Normal, Turbo, UASP to improve overall read/write performance instantaneously
• SMART DIGI+ Power Control - Flexible precise adjustments for System Stability, High Power Efficiency and Improved Performance Scaling on both CPU & RAM
• USB BIOS Flashback - Plug in USB with BIOS file and just click the button for simplest BIOS update

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 11.8 x 2.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B007G51UV0
• Item model number: P8Z77-V PRO
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #24 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Components > Motherboards
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 8, 2012

Product Description

The ASUS P8Z77-V PRO motherboard features the Intel Z77 chipset supporting the Intel LGA1155 3rd/2nd Generation Intel Core i7 Processors. ASUS offers this top-tier platform-leading solution with the exclusive Dual Intelligent Processors 3 technology integrated featuring new SMART DIGI+ Power Control - capable of achieving most precise adjustment, enhanced performance and stability, and O.C. capacity for CPU & RAM. With SMART DIGI+ , users can adjust their system to be highly efficient, providing consistent power delivery to reach higher performance on the Z77 platform than any other vendors out there! EPU conserves energy by intelligently moderating power and load requirements in real-time while TPU provides intelligent system scaling for incredible increases in platform performance while retaining stability. Fan Xpert 2 intelligently provides optimized settings for each fan on your PC and controls fan rotation speeds. Intel 3rd generation Core processors supports PCIe 3.0 for AMD CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI support. The ASUS P8Z77-V PRO provides scalable graphics performance for the gaming and computer enthusiast or the graphical designer wanting to harness additional GPU Compute power in leading media applications. The Z77 Series motherboards features the latest Lucid Virtu MVP software with HyperFormance technology, optimizing graphics performance by providing outstanding gaming responsiveness, sharper visual quality and improved frame rates all with low power consumption. This latest hybrid graphics boost technology fully utilizes fast-computing iGPU and discrete graphics cards in your system to create up to a 60% discrete graphics boost performance!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent upgrade from my ASUS P6T Deluxe v2 1366 board. June 4, 2012

By J Loveridge

Amazon Verified Purchase

I purchased this board for my most recent rebuild/ update of my primary gaming/ photo computer. After using it for about three weeks, I am very happy with it.

Since I find it useful to see what others have working with a particular mobo, here is what I have installed:
P8Z77-Pro Motherboard
Intel Core i5 3570K processor mildly overclocked to 4.1 GHz
Corsair H100 cooling
16 GB G. Skill Ripjaw Z DDR3 2133 RAM
EVGA GTX 680 Superclocked
128 GB Crucial M4 SATA III (SSD) (OS and BF3 installed here)

Reused from previous build
Win 7 Home Premium (thought about switching to Professional but no real reason to using 16 GB RAM)
Antec 1200 Gaming tower with CP-850 PSU
Logitech G9 mouse
Logitech G15 (old ancient v1) keyboard
Razer Nostromo
1 TB WD Caviar Black HA
2 ea 1.5 TB WD Green HD's (mostly for multimedia storage/ backup)
LG BluRay Rewriter disc drive

Installation of the new mobo was very easy. Everything is well labeled. The users guide is a little light, as most are, but very logically laid out for front to back sequential use during initial installation.
Once everything was properly assembled, I booted to the BIOS and installed the updated BIOS 1015. I d/l'd the 1015 prior to starting the build to the flash drive. Using the EZ Flash 2 utility it was very easy to update. After a reboot it was off to installing Win7 on the SSD. The rest of the installation went very smoothly.

The good:
This just blows away my old Core i7 920 on the 1366 mobo with 6 GB of DDR3 RAM. No big surprise there. A lot of the good things for me are related to the SSD and the GTX 680 more than the mobo, but they all have to work together and they do with this board. In BF3 with the video set to ultra or high on all settings, according to FRAPS I am getting about 140-160 fps. Just silly. I could crank everything up until it was stressing the CPU and the GPU, but why? I don't see very much difference with those few other setting moved up on the video.
I am also very happy with this set up for Photoshop and Premiere Elements as well as Photomatrix. Very noticable improvement over my previous set up even with those applications running off the 1 TB WD Caviar Black drive.
The "Idiots Overclocking System" built into this board is very effective with the combo I have. Getting it to 4.1 GHz using just some of the auto overclock tools was easy. In this configuration, I am seeing a max of 32-33C on the CPU temps while playing BF3. The combo of the cool running ivy bridge processor with the Corsair cooler is very effective. I'll probably venture into higher overclocks when needed, but right now there is no point.

The not so good:
I find a few issues with my Logitech G15 keyboard losing the LCD apps after the computer has gone to sleep. I considered 4 stars instead of 5 for this, but decided to leave it 5. The reason is that I have seen this before on all of the 4 or so previous motherboards this keyboard has been used with. I am pretty sure it is a Logitech issue rather than an ASUS mobo issue. Frankly I fixed it on my previous board by disabling the sleep mode. I'll probably do the same with this one unless Logitech comes up with a working update. Might be time to dump the G15, but I do actually use the LCD for TS3.

Bottom line is that I am very happy with this motherboard. Hope this helps someone.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great motherboard, poor software. June 30, 2012

By Casey O'Donnell

Amazon Verified Purchase

Great features, quality components, but this board is seriously let down by the ASUS software. The Wifi Go setup of DNLA crashed the AI suite everytime until I uninstalled the Wifi Go. Hopefully a few revisions to the software will improve the performance. In basic monitoring and automatic performance tuning the software is acceptable, though.

Component-wise, the board is excellent. The layout which puts the front audio header at the farthest point from the front of the PC was not well thought out, but the DIMMs are spaced well and allow for most after-market cooling solutions without losing RAM (Depending on the RAM, you may need to remove huge, spiky heatsinks.) Lots of headers, including a USB 3.0 header so you don't have to resort to a cheesy pass-through.

I don't know if I would buy the Pro version again, and the AI software suite leaves much to be desired, but performance-wise and quality wise this motherboard is excellent. If ASUS improves their software it is a can't miss.

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars would have 5 stars but ASUS tech support/customer service sugs June 3, 2012

By Manfred K. Dulle

Amazon Verified Purchase

Great Motherboard, I bought it above others SPECIFICALLY for the WI_FI GO feature.. Sadly the onboard WIFI that plugs in was /is defective.. The idiots at tech support want me to RMA whole board.. It is a little piece as big as a silver dollar that is defective.. They want me to disassemble my H2O cooled system and send the whole board and be computerless for WEEKS, for a little piece.. RIDICULAS, and the 5 hrs spent getting to that point RUINED IT all for me.. 4 stars is GENEROUS.. great board, VERY silly tech support, with little common sense and piss poor customer support..