Asus P8Z68 Deluxe Gen3 Motherboard Review

The ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 comes with everything shown here which is just enough to get you up and running.  Since this motherboard supports both AMD Crossfire and nVidia SLI you'll find a single SLI bridge as part of the included goodies.

As always the ASUS user guide is well documented and covers a wide variety of topics from heatsink installation to specific PCI Express lane mappings.

A unique feature of the Deluxe edition is a front mounted USB 3.0 breakout box that can be mounted in any available 3.5" drive bay.  This is a change from the Evo that includes the same feature but is limited to expansion slot installs.

Most motherboards come with some sort of tuning and monitoring package to help the hardware enthusiast get the most from their system.  The Asus Ai Suite II is more than just a single overclocking program but encompasses an entire suite of programs to control most everything on the motherboard such as Bluetooth, overclocking and even power delivery.  As you can expect these are split across multiple software packages so you can choose which one you want to install.

Below are some screenshots from the Ai Suite II.

Keep in mind that everything you can control with the Ai Suite II is also available thru the system UEFI.  So, if you're the type who would rather do their tweaks before the OS loads you can do that.  Otherwise fire up the Ai Suite II and do your tuning in real time before committing your changes.