Before the release of 22 nm processors Intel Ivy Bridge major motherboard manufacturers already begun mass production of products based on chipsets Intel 7th series, equipped with socket LGA 1155.
Most manufactured motherboards are based on chipset Z77, Panther Point. The main innovation in the new chipsets will be the native bus USB 3.0 support, a total of Hub I / O is able to serve up to four ports, which are supplemented with 14 ports USB 2.0.
The other characteristics are largely identical with predecessor 6th series chipsets, but, for example, in the case of Z77, the new solutions offer the best organization of interface, PCI Express: 16 lines PCI Express 3.0, supported by the processor Ivy Bridge, can be divided between the slots (8 +8) or under 8 + 4 + 4. Related Products :
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