Also, the less big moederbordfabrikanten showed at Cebit their line-up for Intel’s Ivy Bridge procesors. The Series 7 motherboards from Biostar and ECS have the competition with the better-known brands entering into and seem that.
ECS came up with two motherboards in the Black series, high-end models that have plenty of interesting features. So both signs feature a wi-fi – and bluetooth-adapter, and attention to issues such as special usb ports for charging phones and tablets. The Z77H2-AX and Z77H2-A2X are equipped with an lga1155 socket, four memory slots and the necessary ports, including a gigabitnetwerkaansluiting, audio and video outputs. The Black Extreme logo on the pch heatsink, fades when the ‘southbridge’ is warming up.
The AX has three x16 slots with 3.0 support, two x1 slots and two pci slots. Four sata-600 ports, plus two sata-300 ports and four usb 3.0 ports. The A2X-board has two 3.0-x16 slots, two x1 slots and two pci slots. There are two sata-300 ports: two extra sata-300 interfaces provide esata and msata connector. Furthermore, there are four sata-600 ports and four usb 3.0 ports.
Biostar showed not far to his Series 7 boards with different Z77 motherboards and some H77-, H75 and business models. The main Z77 boards are the TZ77XE4 and TZ77A: the XE4 is the top model. That board has three pci-express x16 slots, a single x1 slot and two pci slots. There are four sata-600 ports, four sata-300 ports and and esata connection and four usb 3.0 ports. The TZ77A has two x16 slots, two x1 slots and two pci slots. There are two sata-600 and four sata-300 ports and four usb 3.0 ports.
