ASUS Unveils New Non-ROG Flagship P8Z77-V Premium

ASUS P8Z77-V Premium (Photo Courtesy ASUS)

ASUS is already known as having a motherboard for pretty much every potential market segment out there. Now they’re loading another model to the hilt and adding one more – the P8Z77-V Premium. This will be ASUS’ flagship non-Republic of Gamers SKU, fitting right between the high-end Deluxe model and their ROG Flagship, the Maximus V Formula, when it comes out later this quarter (rumors I’ve seen put its release sometime in June).

The add-ons of this board have some nice ROG-like features including power section similarities, dual LAN, a boatload of SATA ports and USB BIOS flashback.

One very interesting add-on is that one of the nine referenced SATA ports is an mSATA port, complete with a 32GB SSD plugged in. Setting up SSD caching has never been easier because the drive comes built-in to the board!

Highlighted features include:

USB3 Boost support
USB Bios Flashback
Dual Intel Gigabit Nics featuring iNetwork Control Packet Priority
4 way SLI and 4 way Crossfire support via a new PLX Gen 3 switch
Dual Band Wifi with BT 4.0 featuring WiFi Go! Software Suite ( for DLNA Streaming/Serving, Easy file transfer to android/iOS devices and remote desktop functionality )
Onboard MSATA support with 32GB MSATA SSD
Digi+ VRM with 3 way Digital power design ( CPU/VRM – DRAM – iGPU )
9 SATA Ports
6 4 Pin PWM Fan Headers featuring Fan Xpert 2 Fan Technology ( for advanced control in UEFI and OS as well as automatic fan calibration )

4-way SLI/CrossfireX (Photo Courtesy ASUS)	mSATA-based SSD Included (Photo Courtesy ASUS)
Six SATA 6Gb/s Ports (Photo Courtesy ASUS)	Dual Gigabit LAN (Photo Courtesy ASUS)

We’re not sure when these will be released (and ASUS can’t divulge that information or pricing at this juncture), but it certainly looks like a feature-packed ASUS powerhouse!

-Jeremy Vaughan (hokiealumnus)

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jazon1

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#1 May 01, 2012

wow very nice looking board,giving us a 32GB SSD for HDD Cashe is a very nice touch too!

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mistahtokyo

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#2 May 01, 2012

Great review and motherboard! In the first sentence, however, "has" should be "as".

WarriorII

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#3 May 01, 2012

Pretty

Pretty,
But does it run?

hokiealumnus

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#4 May 01, 2012

Thanks for pointing that out mistahtokyo, looks like MattNo5ss got to it. Just for clarity, this wasn't a review, just a quick look at something ASUS is coming out with.

It definitely runs WII...but how well we can't know yet. :D

Eldonko

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#5 May 01, 2012

Looks like a pretty sweet board but the ROG boards better suit my needs.. Wonder what pricing is like with the SSD included.

#6 May 01, 2012

Using baseless speculation, I'd say somewhere just below the price of the WS (which is $340). That would put it ~$50 more than the Deluxe.

noobnerd

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#7 May 02, 2012

Ugh....They shoulda put some kind of cover over that ssd. makes the whole thing look ugly.

Brolloks

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#8 May 02, 2012

Not sure why Asus brought this to market, kinda Meh given the lineup they already have.:shrug:

#9 May 02, 2012

Targeting mainstream with this, people that dont want to screw around setting up SSD caching and such. Trying to make it easy as possible to get that extra performance.

I doubt many of us would buy this but we arent the avg user either. :)

Viper69

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#10 May 26, 2012

Would love to see a comparison with this one and mATX Max. V Gene

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