Asus P8Z68-V Gen3 review

Last-gen Intel chipset with PCIe 3 aspirations

Asus P8Z68-V Gen3
PCIe 3 on a budget?

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As this board is the latest Z68 equipped board to hit the labs bench it has the advantage of having all the little performance tweaks in the BIOS that Asus must have found for the Z68 chipset since its launch.

That gives it a teeny edge in performance over the more mature boards that were the first to market using the Z68 chipset.

CPU rendering performance

Asus P8Z68-V Gen3 - Benchmarks

Video encoding performance

Asus P8Z68-V Gen3 - Benchmarks

CPU overclocking performance

Asus P8Z68-V Gen3 - Benchmarks