ASUS P8Z77 WS LGA 1155 Intel Z77 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: EXCELLANT- easy to put together
EASY - bios setup
COOL- mb statis code
GREAT - price
REBATE - i get a prepaid visa card from them in 3 months

Cons: has 3 internal usb plugs wish they had 4

Other Thoughts: kinda wish it had 4 usb internal usb plugs comes with 3

Pros: Nice Board, EZ bios, and SSD caching works well. Solid built board in stalled a 3770k, 16gb memory and another build completed with no headaches.

Cons: 0, with the exception of the driver disk and manual missing, but that is located on the ASUS website.

Pros: Nice and stable motherboard. Approachable Bios. On-board power button for testing outside of case.

Cons: Watch out for virtualizing; I setup a VM and attempted to run it without enabling VTx in BIOS and the computer rebooted without warning and without gracefully shutting down the host OS (Linux).

Other Thoughts: Great board; definitely worth the money.

Pros: Very fast, runs everything perfectly on my new setup. The bios looks absolutely fantastic and is very user friendly.

Cons: I'm not sure if only I had this problem. The post message screen only blinks for a single frame, which made setting up my raid array a huge hassle. I could find no setting which would slow this down on purpose. I tried everything, and nothing seemed to work, including updating the bios, switching my keyboard into a 3.0 slot, taking it out of fast boot, and slowing down my processor.

Finally after an hour and a half of fiddling and an hour and a half of button mashing I finally got it to enter the raid utility screen. Hopefully this is the one and only time I will ever have to enter that screen.

Other Thoughts: If the only con that I will have to deal with is blazing fast speed, although extremely frustrating while it was happening, I think its still worthy of 5 eggs. I definitely gave up after 2 and a half hours, a definite thanks to a couple friends that convinced me to keep trying.

Pros: I am running this board with the 3770k oc to 4.7 . running it 24/7 for 5 weeks now and it is stable and runs amazing, I am also running the h100 corsair to keep it cool .. The board is built well and still fits easy in a mid-atx case . I would recommend this board to anyone. I am also running a evga gtx 670 and the graphic run smooth with a 3d mark 11' score of 9652 with the card having a small oc also, and I can convert movies at an avg speed of 500-600 fps. The boards temps and its stabilty is fawless .

Cons: non at this time.

Pros: 1. Server board workstation with server config for long lasting 24/7 computing or gaming and server quality as well (equalled to ROG mobo)
2. Graphic, best performance for CrossFireX and Geforce SLI (dual x16 (blue slots), x16 x8 x8, quad x8). Up to 60% Hybrid Graphics Boost and 3X Faster Video Conversion with LucidLogix Virtu MVP
3. Memory, support awesome space of memory, (4 slots up to 32GB Ram)
4. SSD or Raid, 3X Faster Performance with one - click ASUS SSD Caching
5. Fan Xpert 2 - The Most Customizable Fan Controls
6. 3-color ASUS LED Instant for O.C Status Checking with 3-color LED (Red - O.Clocked, Blue - Normal, Green - Power Saving)
7. PCIe 3.0 Ready
8. ASUS WS Diag. LEDs build in the mobo, the POST state LEDs of CPU, RAM, VGA, and HDD. If an error is found, the LED next to the device will continue lighting until error is fixed. (green - o.k., blue - problem need solved)

Cons: Only con i have with this WS board is its a bit pricey but def worth it.

Other Thoughts: I used to have this config....
ASUS P8Z68-V LX
INTEL I5-2500K 3.30 GHZ TURBO 3.7 (o.ced to 4.0)
COOLIT LCS ECO II-120MM WATER COOLER
NZXT BLACK M59 GAMING MID TOWER CASE
APEVIA 700WATT POWER SUPPLY
HIS 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2GB GDDR5
Now with this new mobo config....
ASUS P8Z77 WS
INTEL I5-2500K 3.30 GHZ TURBO 3.7 (o.ced to 4.5)
COOLIT LCS ECO II-120MM WATER COOLER
NZXT BLACK M59 GAMING MID TOWER CASE
APEVIA 700WATT POWER SUPPLY
HIS 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2GB GDDR5
HIS 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2GB GDDR5 (Crossfired)

Pros: Finally I can get x16 x16 with my two gtx560 ti`s on a 1155 socket.

Cons: Can`t get the esata ports to recognize my drive. Waiting for response from Asus before I request a RMA. Maybe there is something I`m not doing in bios, which I highly doubt considering all drivers and the fact that this is probably my 20th build in my 15 years of building PC's. But hey, technology changes and I`m giving this baby the benefit of the doubt for now.

Pros: ASUS P8Z77 WS LGA 1155 Intel Z77 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard has a new BIOS, make sure you update to it before connecting anything else etc.

Will fit in usual size case, no need for crazy big case.

Runs with this low voltage 1.5 volt memory:

CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M4A2133C9R

Cas Latency: 9
Voltage: 1.5V
Multi-channel Kit: Quad Channel Kit
Timing: 9-11-10-30

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OR THIS 1.65 Volt

CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M4A2400C9R

• DDR3 2400
• Timing 9-11-11-31
• Cas Latency 9
• Voltage 1.65V


RevoDrive3 X2 SSD compatible with Intel RAID HHD at the same time.

Cons: A little bit pricy, but all professional equipment is...

Pros: This board does a very nice job with complex addin cards runnning various forms of RAID.

Cons: Alot of money, but worth it

Pros: Works with REVO/REVO3 when set up correctly, AND with Intel RAID at the same time !!!

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Nice Workstation board