Z77 - which one ? - Page 2

deltatux · 05-11-2012, 14:58 | posts: 18,766 | Location: Toronto, Canada

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Originally Posted by joe187

EDIT: coming from my old AMD build, i felt like i might need an engineering degree to figure out everything in this thing's bios. After a while, you realize most things just don't even need to be touched, most things on auto and it's fine.

I think the issue these days is that manufacturers don't have proper documentation of what each option does. Many just literally skim it and not explain what each thing does. To make things worse, a lot of the options are labelled with very technical terms that anyone without a computer engineering in hardware degree would not understand.

deltatux

Hughesy · 05-14-2012, 12:03 | posts: 56 | Location: UK

Haha I was the same as I came from amd (with a cheap mobo) and didn't have a clue what a lot of the stuff did. I spent the day reading the net trying to figure it all out. I chose the Asus P8z77-v pro and love it. What does lucidlogix do and does it actually improve gaming performance? I couldn't get the hd4000 to work with amd6950 as I get an error-
"This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)
If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system."

Any help would be appreciated

Chillin · 05-14-2012, 13:02 | posts: 5,873 | Location: Chilling

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hughesy

Haha I was the same as I came from amd (with a cheap mobo) and didn't have a clue what a lot of the stuff did. I spent the day reading the net trying to figure it all out. I chose the Asus P8z77-v pro and love it. What does lucidlogix do and does it actually improve gaming performance? I couldn't get the hd4000 to work with amd6950 as I get an error-
"This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)
If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system."

Any help would be appreciated

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5728/i...-and-biostar/2

djjonastybe · 05-14-2012, 14:40 | posts: 724 | Location: Belgium

ASUS Z77 PRO

OR

ASRock Z77 Extreme6

Hughesy · 05-14-2012, 15:55 | posts: 56 | Location: UK

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chillin

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5728/i...-and-biostar/2

Thank you

still don't know how to solve the error though but its not a major problem.

scajjr2 · *Last edited by scajjr2; 05-18-2012 at 21:25.*

I just picked up an ASRock Z77 Pro 4 and an i5-3570K at MicroCenter for $260. They have some deals with certain mobos where if you buy an i5-3570K the mobo price drops like 40%. $190 for the cpu, $70 for the Pro 4.

probably won't get around to putting it all together till next week, gotta back up a ton of stuff. Hadn't really planned on this upgrade but got a hefty retroactive raise so decided for once to splurge and go close to the top of new tech. An i7 would have been overkill for me.

Got a Gigabyte GTX-670 last week. This setup should hold me for a couple years.

Sam