ASUS Z87-K DDR3 1600 LGA 1150 Motherboard

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Product Feature

• Asus Digi+ Vrm - Digital Power Design
• Asus Exclusive Usb 3.0 Boost
• Asus Fan Xpert 2

Product Description

ASUS Intel Z87 Motherboard; ATX, Socket LGA 1150

ASUS Z87-K DDR3 1600 LGA 1150 Motherboard Review

One thing I've learned over the years building gaming PCs is that ASUS parts never let me down. Putting your cash into ASUS is a safe bet that the product will last and you'll get your money's worth. But enough about my love of this brand, I'll tell you about the board.

First thing to check when considering this board is to make sure you have the right power supply -- the CPU power plug is 8-pin; some PSUs have two 4-pin plugs and that will work since you plug them in side by side to fill the 8 pin plug. The second thing to consider is the size of your CPU cooler -- I have a giant Cooler Master Hyper 212 the fan covers the 1st RAM slot. However, that is not a deal breaker since you can install the fan a little higher on the cooler to make clearance for the RAM if you must use that slot. In my case, I'm only using 2 sticks of RAM so I don't have anything installed in the first RAM slot. Speaking of RAM, this is the first board I've owned that requires the RAM sticks to be alternated in the slots to enable dual-channel mode. For example, if you number the slots 1-4 starting from the slot closest to the CPU, I had to put my two sticks in slots 2 and 4 to enable dual-channel mode... other boards I've used require the 2 sticks to be in slots 3 and 4 for dual-channel mode; just something to keep in mind -- the manual doesn't make that clear.

Overclocking: I imagine most of you are interested in overclocking with this board so you should know the UEFI bios on this board is great for that. Every imaginable setting is available to tweak to your needs, although, it took me a while of poking around to find them all. I'm running a 4670K CPU at 4.4GHz with relatively modest voltages (1.22v vcore, 0.9v ring/cache, 1.9v cpuin) so the chip runs pretty cool for being overclocked. I can get it to 4.5GHz and above stable, but I had to raise the voltages a lot to get there (1.30v vcore, 1.2v ring/cache, 1.9v cpuin) so I'll hang out at 4.4GHz with air cooling.

The lack of SLI support: This board supports CrossFire but not SLI. Not a issue for me since I always only run a single card -- I'm not interested in running 2 or more video cards and generating the extra heat and noise. So another thing to keep in mind if you do run SLI.

Truth be told, I never opt for the top-of-the-line model such as the PRO version of this board. This version met all my needs and kept my wallet happy!

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