On the eve of Computex, GIGABYTE showed the upper segment motherboard Z77X-UP7. The product on Intel Z77 Express chipset is designed for processors Intel Core (Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge) LGA1155. This is the first product in the range of GIGABYTE, which uses technology Ultra Durable 5. Under this designation lies the further development of measures to improve the stability and reliability, known as Ultra Durable 4. Ultra Durable 5 chokes are designed for up to 60 A, voltage regulators, and International Rectifier PowIRStage IR3550.
A key feature of Z77X-UP7 is an incredible 32-phase CPU Power Design , receives power from two terminals 8 pin EPS. The motherboard has a bridge PCI-Express 3.0 PLX PEX8747, converting one bus of the processor PCI-Express 3.0 x16 in two, which are distributed among six slots for PCI-Express x16. This provides the possibility for configuration with up to four GPUs in NVIDIA SLI mode or AMD CrossFireX. The motherboard supports LucidLogix VirtuMVP.
Z77X-UP7 include six SATA 6 Gb / s, four ports SATA 3 Gbit / s and a slot mSATA 6 Gb / s. There are two ports of Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.0, multi-channel (8 +2) audio codec, and 10 ports USB 3.0. The official premiere of GIGABYTE Z77A-UP7 is expected this year.