The Intel Z77 chipset family of master board architectures.

Last Update Time: 2019-03-30 11:02:44

The Intel Z77 chipset motherboard architecture is shown in figure 1.


Figure 1 Intel Z77 chipset motherboard architecture diagram.

The management and support functions of the Intel Z77 chipset motherboard are as follows.

 

The CPU socket features 1155-pin support for Intel 13, 15, 17 CPU, CPU internal integrated video card controllers and memory controllers for up to 1600MHz memory.

 

②The CPU and PCH are the same as the previous two chipsets, using the FDI bus to transmit video information and the DMI bus to transmit the control signal.

 

③PCH supports three video interfaces: VGA analog signal, DVI digital signal and HDMI HD multimedia.

 

④PCH manages Nic chips and PCI-EX1 slots through the PCI-E bus and is no longer supported for PCI slots.

 

⑤PCH manages USB 2.0 interface, USB3.0 interface, SATA hard disk interface, SPIBIOS, sound card chip.

 

⑥PCH manages the IO chip through the LPC bus.

 

⑦IO chip manages keyboard, mouse, serial port, parallel port and each hardware temperature monitor.

 

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