Intel Z77 Panther Point Chipset and Motherboard Preview – ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, ECS and Biostar

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• ASUSTechMKT - Monday, April 9, 2012 - link

  ASMedia does not produce or design a bluetooth controller. Additionally you are correct in that add in controllers do offer support for specialized modes of operation.functionality ( like charging )

• ASUSTechMKT - Monday, April 9, 2012 - link

  the Intel controller under Windows 7 does not offer operating in UASP mode. With UASP the ASMedia add in controller can provide superior performance especially in queue depth. The USB3 Boost package is offered for both the Intel controller and the ASMedia ( Intel support change from BOT mode to SCSI ( Turbo mode ) and the ASMedia controller of support for BOT, SCSI ( Turbo ) as well UASP.

• MrMaestro - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  I didn't know a motherboard could be kitsch until I saw the ECS.

• XSCounter - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  P8Z77-M is the one I am waiting for for my Micro ATX build. It has no those xtra useless controllers which are all gonna be inferior to native Intel ones. So won't overpaying anything.
  
  However, I am planning to overclock so I wish to know how it will perform in this regard! Hoping to see these ASUS Micro ATX boards on Anandtech asap :)
  
  http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/...

• ASUSTechMKT - Monday, April 9, 2012 - link

  It features a Digi+ VRM with robust VRM components overall in our testing the -M Pro provide comparable scaling to that of our standard board. You will see this information from ASUS soon. Solid board !

• Lonyo - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  What happened to the boards with 10 SATA ports?
  There were some from tradeshows earlier in the year, but none listed here (apart from the one with 8 + 2 eSATA).
  
  Obviously this isn't a comprehensive lineup, but most of these seem to be fairly high end boards, yet no 10 SATA ports.

• ASUSTechMKT - Monday, April 9, 2012 - link

  Very few users use this many ports it makes sense more to prioritize expansion lane support to add ons that will be used. Keep in mind even with a board with that number of ports you may not actually be able to have that usable bandwidth.
  
  Should you really need that many you should consider an add on controller card. Things like SATA ports while important are not the only way to distinguish true attention to design in higher end boards.

• aranyagag - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  "four SATA 6 Gbps also from the PCH," shouldn't that be sata 3 gbps
  in the msi gd65 board

• ConVuzius - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  The article says Virtu MVP has an i-Mode and a d-Mode, but which one is the better one? I kinda didnt get the difference, except where you connect your display.

• Ryan Smith - Sunday, April 8, 2012 - link

  For regular Virtu, d-Mode is the mode that was better from a performance perspective, since at times performance under i-Mode dipped due to having to send frames out to the iGPU.
  
  For MVP, there's not going to be all that much of a difference. Regardless of the mode used Virtual V-Sync needs frames passed from the dGPU to the iGPU. The only difference is which display output is used, since a copy of the frame is on both GPUs (i.e. while you have to send frames to the iGPU, you don't have to send them back even in d-Mode).