Z77 vs Z68 Motherboards

[sheroo]

Are there any advantages to running a Z77 board vs a Z68 board? I mean this in regard to 1155 K series chips both SB & IB.

 

[Firat]

I think your ram can run faster up to 2667mhz iirc, that's all I found ATM I found it in the board specs @ the aria website

 

[sheroo]

I think there is also support for native USB3, and of course PCI-E 3. But I'm struggling to find any major advantages?

 

[ThatBattlefieldGuy]

USB 3 is in the Z77 chip set, i don't think the performance is mind-blowing though. I don't even own a USB drive lol.

Edit: You posted as i was posting

 

[sheroo]

It'll be interesting to see overclock comparisons for say a given SB or IB chip run on a Z68 and then a Z77 board to see if there is any great difference. I suspect though that overclockability will be down to how good the power delivery is for a given board and to a lesser degree the different chipsets??

 

[Rastalovich]

Intel would probably rather you compare Z77 with xyz67, that being if they produce a x78 chipset.

The x6x series was a bit messy, but the latter released Z68 gen3 mobos are pretty damn good. They both require the IvyBridge cpu to use PCIE3, otherwize with a Sandy it'll be PCIE2 - in the add-in card sense, i.e. graphics. Whether the Z77 sports the PCIE3 "high speed data link" for harddrives only, ala the x79, I don't know.

Personally I'm advising clients with quality latter Z68 model mobos to keep them.

 

[Azurite]

What you all said + some top models is said to have thunderbolt.

 

[sheroo]

What you all said + some top models is said to have thunderbolt.

Go on enlighten me wtf is thunderbolt?

 

[jonnyfgm]

thunderbolt (probably wont be called thunderbolt on the PC though) is apples implementation of intels latest communication protocol, basically it is a USB type thingy with a bandwidth of up to 10gbs with the ability to daisy chain devices without the need for a hub

 

[Azurite]

Go on enlighten me wtf is thunderbolt?

Aka codename lightpeak. It is an interface for connecting peripheral devices to a computer. You will get tvice as fast transfer speeds compared to usb 3.0, so its really sweet if you got large external hdd's that have thunderbolt.

thunderbolt (probably wont be called thunderbolt on the PC though) is apples implementation of intels latest communication protocol, basically it is a USB type thingy with a bandwidth of up to 10gbs with the ability to daisy chain devices without the need for a hub

Msi and Asus are refering to it as thunderbolt, and yes they are using the same name for pc. It was actually called lightpeak when the technology first leaked out.

 

[BKCXb]

I think your ram can run faster up to 2667mhz iirc, that's all I found ATM I found it in the board specs @ the aria website

remember the memory controller is built into the CPU, so sticking a 2600K in a Z77 board won't just majicly let you run 2677, you chip has to be able to hold that anyway, and if it can, it should do it on a Z68 board ,if you are lucky enough to have that combonation of parts.