First Thunderbolt-Packing Desktop Motherboard From Intel Launched

     Thunderbolt I/O technology offers up to 10Gbps bi-directional information transfer rates, and one connector is capable of daisy-chaining multiple devices. Up till currently, devices supporting the technology are to a small degree on the Apple-heavy aspect, however with the launch of Intel's DZ77RE-75K main board,

that state of affairs can seemingly amendment rather quickly.At launch, the ATX-sized (9.6 x 11.6-inch/24.3 x 29.4 cm) board can support the newest Core i7 K, similarly as 2nd and third gen Core i3/i5/i7 processors via an LGA1155 socket (Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge). It will accommodate up to 32GB of 240-pin DDR3 system memory over four slots, and makes up to eight USB three.0 and 10 USB a pair of.0 ports (although some are via internal headers) out there.

      After over a year of Mac dominance, the primary Intel desktop laptop motherboard that includes Thunderbolt I/O technology has been – somewhat quietly – announced. based mostly on the newest Z77 categorical chipset, the DZ77RE-75K has been optimized for the new Intel -K Core processors. It options a replacement GUI BIOS, comes with integrated HD audio andvideo, and advantages from RAID zero, 1, 5, 10 support.There are four 6Gbps and 4 3Gbps SATA ports and one 6Gbps eSATA, twin Gigabit Ethernet LAN, one external and one header FireWire interface, and 2 PCI categorical three.0 x16 growth slots additionally {to two|to a pair of} PCI categorical 2.0/PCI slots. The boxed version of the board will embody an 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi/Bluetooth a pair of.1 module for wireless connectivity.Intel's Visual BIOS offers a touch-screen support a prime to bottom graphical interface, and full mouse and keyboard enabled controls for system tweaking like overclocking of the unlocked -K CPU cores and fine tuning of the graphics and memory speeds. The new DZ77RE-75K isn't the sole Thunderbolt-packing desktop laptop board out there, of course. each ASUS (P8Z77-V) and MSI (Z77A-GD80) have conjointly recently announced mainboards with built-in Thunderbolt technology, though solely the previous has been certified by Intel at the time of writing.

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