Intel Launches Z77 Motherboards, Preparing For Ivy Bridge 58
MojoKid writes "In preparation for the arrival of their 3rd Generation Core processor products based on their Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, Intel has readied a new chipset dubbed the Z77 Express. New socket 1155 Ivy Bridge processors offer 16 lanes of PCI Express 2.0 or 3.0 connectivity on-die and they feature integrated dual-channel, DDR3 memory controllers with maximum officially supported speeds of up to 1600MHz. The processors are linked to the Z77 chipset via Intel's FDI (Flexible Display Interface) and 20Gb/s DMI 2.0 interfaces. The chipset itself is outfitted with 8 more PCIe 2.0 lanes, six ports of SATA (II and III), an integrated Gigabit MAC, and digital display outputs for up to three displays. Making its debut for the first time in an Intel chipset is also native USB 3.0 support with four USB 3.0 and ten USB 2.0 ports built in."
McDonalds Competition (Score:2, Funny)
Gigabit MAC? Yum. Gigs & Gigs served.
Is that all? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:First post by AMD (Score:2, Funny)
I have an AMD CPU and I got here first!
Nice try, second place.
Re:thunderbolt = only a x8 + x4 pci-e 3.0 slots (Score:5, Funny)
duel x16
En garde, all sixteen of you!
Launching motherboards (Score:4, Funny)
I just have to say, back when I was doing a lot of hardware work, I would have happily launched 277 motherboards ... with a catapult.
Z80 (Score:4, Funny)
they allow upto 64GB on desktop models
Are you sure? The Z80 chipset only used to allow 64kB and the Z77 is presumably three models earlier.