Overclocking

Overclocking with the ASUS P8Z77-V was very similar to other products I've tested so far, with a setting of 1.19 V in BIOS needed to bring my 3770K to stability at 4.6 GHz. Memory clocking using XMP worked flawlessly, booting right in with 2400 MHz like it was no big deal. I recorded a VRM power consumption of 102 W while running stability testing, right in line with what I expected.

Overclocked Performance Summary

Cinebench provided a substantial performance increase when overclocked, something that resounds true through the entire series of Intel-based products. The ASUS P8Z77-V wasn't the best performer, but it really wasn't all that far behind, either.


SuperPi 32m results were very good for the ASUS P8Z77-V, which finished just under a second slower than our best result.


WPrime 1024M numbers further the results, showing that there is true power available when overclocking the ASUS P8Z77-Vm which sat just one tenth of a second behind the fastest result.


For a bit of 3D action we fired up CodeMaster's F1 2010 to be impressed with the performance boost offered compared to the other products, with the ASUS P8Z77-V taking the top spot overall. This is quite contrary to the negative scaling we've seen on some other products, a good indicator that ASUS engineers have spent considerable time optimizing the BIOS for the ASUS P8Z77-V.


With Codemaster's F1 2010 starting to show its age, and proving less reliable in showing performance increases, we've added the Shogun 2 DirectX 9 CPU benchmark to our testing suite. In the months to come, it will get added to the main testing section, but for now, it does show a very large increase in performance when run on the overclocked ASUS P8Z77-V, which finished just one one hundreth of a second behind the best result..so close it might as well have been the same!