Motherboards with the z77 chipset are now available at retailers. I am quite disappointed to be honest. The only difference (when comparing the chipsets) between z67 and z77 is that z77 natively supports USB 3.0 as well as PCIe 3.0.
Motherboard manufacturers such as Asus have obviously added some extra features themselves to their z77 boards but they could have added them to the z68 boards... Oh well, the new motherboards looks good, but I am not sure the higher prices are really worth it.
Ivy Bridge desktop processors will be released the 29:th this month.
Not sure if should upgrade my p8z68-V pro
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't. The only differences are for example the new z77 model has dual BIOSes, support for Thunderbolt (if you buy a separate Thunderbolt card and plugs it in), Wifi and stuff like that. They are the same when it comes to performance, and pretty much the same when it comes to connectors.
DeleteIt will most likely not be worth it upgrading from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge either. Since it's just a die shrink with a better onboard GPU.