Chipsets what's the difference

Alloneword

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OK i'm in the early stages of looking at upgrading my system and my first point of call is the chipset sid eof things having looked at wiki and intels site there seems very little between any of these chipsets except the PCI slots going walkies.
Z77, Z75, H77, Q77, Q75, B75

Not even Intel could bring out 6 chipsets and difference only being PCI slot missing, can anyone explain what the differences are? Or point me in the right direction for some decent reading explain why one chipset might be better then the other (Lanes etc)

Even using intel's compare feature is pretty US.

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Alloneword said:
OK i'm in the early stages of looking at upgrading my system and my first point of call is the chipset sid eof things having looked at wiki and intels site there seems very little between any of these chipsets except the PCI slots going walkies.
Z77, Z75, H77, Q77, Q75, B75

Not even Intel could bring out 6 chipsets and difference only being PCI slot missing, can anyone explain what the differences are? Or point me in the right direction for some decent reading explain why one chipset might be better then the other (Lanes etc)

Even using intel's compare feature is pretty US.

All1
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Realistically the main difference is that Z75/Z77 are the only chipset that fully support overclocking e.g. For K-Series chips (2500K etc) overclocking by the multiplier + RAM Speed and Ratio adjustment. Z77 has the most flexible PCI-E Arrangements, allowing for 2 or even 3 graphics card slots on some boards.

The tables listed on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155
are perhaps the best detailed ones I could find as to what the specific differences are.

Although bear in mind that although e.g. Z77 is missing PCI support, Gigabyte and many other manufacturers have re-added it using a separate bridge chip.

B75 - budget boards (e.g. no RAID, no Rapid Storage, Less USB/SATA)
Q75 ???
Q77 - Business focused due to being only chipset with vPro
H77 - Main Chipset if not overclocking
Z75 - "Budget" Z77 - no Smart Response, don't think any have really be made
Z77 - Overclocking chipset
 
OK thanks for the reply Armageus well despite my post in here i'm not into O/C.
I can rule out the B75 & Q77 for sure despite posting here i'm not in O/C but won't rule out Z77 or the Z75, my main requirements are future proof as possible, by that i mean PCIe x3 support but i also use a raid card (that need x4 min) so have to make sure there is enough on the board to cover that as well, no point in putting that in line only to run a x1.

Anyway have any comment on Q75 chipset


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For the record and anyone Googling...Q77/Q75 differences around SATA config only... 75 has one 6GBit port, 77 has two 6GBit ports
 
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