What's the difference?

[arc@css]

Can someone please explain what's the main difference between the :

Z77, H77, B75, Z68, P67, H67 and H61 boards?

I see most people recommending Z77; is it just a case of a refresh, more reliable bios, etc?

I remember something about a B3 revision, which I think was a long way back.

Cheers.



Edit : I see the last two I mentioned look to be micro boards, so that might explain those ones.

 

[stulid]

Christ, where to start.

• B3 was a revision for the P67 chipset as the early ones had an issue with SATA ports.

• H61/H67 dont allow overclocking, usually two DIMM slots, if they have USB3.0+SATAIII its usually via a thrid party chip, most have display outputs to pass the CPU GFX signal through.

B75 is designed for small business users I believe (no overclocking), it has a few features where you can shut out certain USB devices from working and some other useful bits for business users, can use the CPU GFX signal again.

H77 (is better and I think allows you to overclock a suitable CPU to 4X speed bin higher than the max Turbo value) so a 2500K runs normally at 3.3Ghz, or 3.4Ghz with Turboboost when all four cores are used, this can then be set to 3.8Ghz via this method, again there is display connectors.

P67 was the first overclocking chipset for enthusiasts, no display connectors.

Z68 added SSD caching, Lucid Virtu and Quicksync to the above, the boards had display outputs to be able to pass through the CPU's GFX core, later boards also had PCi-E3.0 support.

Z77 improved on the above by adding native USB3.0 support and Luicd MVP.


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Thats approximately correct (im sure someone will try and pick a hole in it)


If you want to overclock properly? get a Z77 chuipset.

 

[arc@css]

Thanks, Stulid.