3/08/2012 09:07:00 PM
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Together with the company’s Black Series of high-end Intel Z77 motherboards we detailed previously, ECS will also introduce a more budget friendly LGA 1155 solution based on the same chipset, dubbed the Z77H2-A3.
Compared to its more powerful siblings, the Z77H2-A3 is designed for single-GPU systems, which means that it comes featuring a single PCI Express x16 add-on slot.
This is however PCI Express Gen 3.0 compliant, so when the ECS motherboard is paired with an Intel Ivy Bridge processor, it will provide a full 16GB/s of bandwidth to the graphics card installed.
Other add-on cards can be installed in the four PCI Express x1 slots available in the Z77H2-A3 or in the two 32-bit legacy PCI slots provided.
As far as storage is concerned, the Z77H2-A3 features a total of six SATA ports, all of these driven by the Intel Z77 chipset, two of which are working at 6Gbps speeds.
Moving to the back of the board, we get to see the usual assortment of ports and connectors, which includes Gigabit Ethernet, 7.1-channel audio, as well as the mandatory D-Sub, DVI and HDMI video outputs.
Two SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports are also provided, along with a slew of regular USB 2.0 connectors.
A motherboard on-board header provides two additional USB 3.0 ports to the Z77H2-A3, which can be easily routed to the front of the case.
According to TechPowerUp, power to the CPU is provided via a simple 6-phase VRM, which, all things considered, should be enough for most Ivy Bridge processors.
No information regarding the launch date of the Z77H2-A3 has been provided by ECS, but the motherboard seems to be targeting the sub-$150 (113 EUR) market.
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