Intel Z77 'Panther Point' Chipset Overview

[Jos]

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https://www.techspot.com/guides/519-intel-z77-panther-point-chipset/

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[cliffordcooley]

I'm happy to hear a firmware update is all my board needs to support Ivy Bridge. I had heard rumors that Ivy Bridge would require a new architecture. Nice to know the rumors were wrong.

 

[Guest]

One more difference: 6 Series has XP drivers, 7 series has no XP drivers which means 6 series motherboard is the last on which you can natively install Windows XP.

 

[VitalyT]

No support for PCIe 3.0??? That's a shame...

 

[Darth Shiv]

Pretty disappointing but expected... poor SATA3 support, poor PCIe support. Basically very little to support high bandwidth disk solutions.

If you want a PCIe x16 graphics card and a PCIe SSD solution, you run out of native ports. If you want to use SATA 3 you are limited to 550MB/s read/write.

The SSD tech supports MUCH more - Revodrive 3 X2 for example - and they are relatively affordable next to a SATA 3 SSD but have mind boggling performance.

Intel is holding people back by leaving us stuck with these bottlenecks for ANOTHER generation. SATA 3 was obsolete before it was released.

 

[Guest]

One more difference: 6 Series has XP drivers, 7 series has no XP drivers which means 6 series motherboard is the last on which you can natively install Windows XP.

Not true at all. Just checked the current lineup for MSI and all Z77 boards support xp.

 

[Guest]

Hi, the Intel Z77 chipset does support PCIe Gen 3; however, users will only experience the true effect of this new bus channel when a board featuring this chipset is paired with an Ivy Bridge CPU that has 16 PCIe lanes.

 

[DAOWAce]

+1 to Darth Shiv.

Been complaining about Intel's lack of SATA3 ports compared to AMD and also lack of high speed PCI-E lanes.

Now they're removing PCI slots and still keeping the PCI-E bottleneck? Wtf?

PCI-E 3.0 is okay, but seriously, Intel needs to get its act together. If AMD actually releases a quality CPU again, I'm jumping ship ASAP. Tired of dealing with these issues.

 

[Guest]

Here is an example of a motherboard with the H77 chipset that does have a legacy PCI slot:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8H77M/#specifications

What gives with these claims that it's not supported?

 

[Guest]

Haven't looked at AMD boards, but how many SATA 3 and high-speed PCIe lanes to you need? With the intel DZ77GA-70K, you have 2 PCIe gen 3 slots to run SLI, plus a PCIe gen 2 slot to run a 4x PCIe SSD, plus 2 native SATA 3 ports, plus 2 (slower) Marvell SATA 3 ports. How manny SSD drives are you planning on putting in the system? SATA 3 is far superior with SSDs, as SATA 3 HDDs are the bottleneck point in the data stream.

 

[cliffordcooley]

I'm happy to hear a firmware update is all my board needs to support Ivy Bridge.

How long should we wait before coming to a conclusion that we have been shafted out of supporting Ivy Bridge with 6-Series PCH?

Has there been firmware updates for 6-Series PCH and Ivy Bridge compatibility?