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Z77H2-A2X (V1.0)
Overview:
ECS Ultimate Performance Golden Edition Extreme Motherboard for Intel New Generation Product.
ECS Z77H2-A2X is the Ultimate Golden Edition Extreme product, which fully supports the Socket 1155 Intel 3rd & 2nd Generation K-sku desktop processors to deliver amazing overclocking capabilities. Z77H2-A2X features Gold 4ever concept with Golden Quality, Golden Stability, Golden Cooling and Golden Royalty for this golden board. Designed with the Intel Z77 chip by supporting dual channel DDR3 memory module, and able to overclocking via ECS M.I.B.X BIOS to gain the ultimate performance. For better gaming performance, Z77H2-A2X with 2x PCIex16 that operates in PCIe x 16 Gen.3 bandwidth to support NVDIA SLI & ATI CrossFireX. Special designed with bluetooth and wireless LAN to build a convenient wireless environment. Moreover, Z77H2-A2X bundled with Lucid Virtu MVP providing smart switch on board graphic or VGA card for power saving. ECS Z77H2-A2X is the best choice for your computing experience.
ECS Super Alloy Choke - 1.5X Long-Lasting Stability
Report shows that under unstable current or full loading environment conditions, general choke is more likely to burn out or even result in system shut down. ECS Super Alloy Choke represents the latest innovative technology in sufficient power usage, high temperature tolerance and full current stability. With outstanding capability, ECS Super Alloy Choke offers the most energy-efficient, lowest EMI interference, highest life-span and 150% higher stability than other products.
Most Energy-Efficient
ECS Super Alloy Choke is capable of working under overclocking conditions, with 30% higher energy saving than the industry standard. ECS guarantees the stability and durability that allows power users to play beyond their limitations
Highest Life-Span
The special element of ECS Supper Alloy Choke is adapted to a wide range of temperature from -40oC to 140oC with 33% higher sustainability than general regulation, strengthening its ultra-stability and life-span.
Lowest EMI
ECE Super Alloy Choke contains new special elements with the features of low thermal consumption and decrease the harmful influence from EMI, which presents a higher efficiency and safer environment to users.(EMI ,Electromagnetic Disturbance)
Nonstop Technology - ECS exclusive long-term stability solution
Nonstop Technology includes 4 main features from best component to protection mechanism for maximum long-term stability of users' personal computers.
Super Marathon 3X Stability - 72 Hours Stability Test
Super Marathon 3X Stability is certificated by over 30 ECS professional testers. More than 3 times testing cycle and military level environment, runs over 30,000 times quality test within 72 hours. Super Marathon 3X Stability, providing guarantee of stability and durability, makes end-users easy to beyond the limitation.
Sahara Severe Test - 50 Degree Burn-In Test
Sahara Severe Test is a harsher test standard, with 125% higher than industrial traditional temperature under burn-in test of 50℃ and ensures quality of components to prove the stability and performance under full loading and high temperature. ECS carefully selects each component of products, breaks self limit, and leads the industrial specification. The best quality is made by severity.
Apache Long-Life CAP - 100% Solid CAP
Apache Long-Life CAP is developed by more than 40 hardware experts and inspected by 1,400 strictest standards to build up ECS full protection technology. ECS develops advanced “Wave” multi-layer filter technology supplying pure and stable current. The lifespan of Apache Long-Life CAP is 6 times longer than ordinary capacitor, providing full capability of stabilizing current and standing high temperature. Apache CAP supports solidest protection ever!!
Thor Ultra Protection - ESD Protection
ECS Thor Ultra Protection, NASA-level anti-static technology is a delicate protection combination which is made of dozens of protection diodes and capacitors. Thor Ultra Protection keeps low clamping voltage to avoid anti-static happen and prevent component damage from potential danger. ECS offers the best protection to your motherboards as ECS Royal Guards.
ECS Golden Edition Motherboard - Gold "4"ever
Spare no expense and based on the insistence of extreme performance and quality, ECS gathers dozens of engineer experts to construct the throne of your honor with delicate handicraft and luxury components. Gold Classic, ECS Classic.
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Golden Quality
With excellent gold plating on CPU pins, memory sockets and PCI Express slots offering ultra system stability and more plug-in opportunity. |
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Golden Stability
Golden components provide best anti-oxidation, anti-rust and anti-moisture protection to strengthen prime quality and durability of ECS motherboards |
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Golden Cooling
ECS Golden edition motherboard presents ultra-speed thermal dissipation which fully unleashes the advantage of golden plating.
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Golden Royalty
Limited edition, unlimited royalty. ECS Golden Edition motherboard represents your prime status and extraordinary taste |
Lucid Virtu Universal MVP - Switchable Graphics
Virtu Universal MVP GPU Virtualization technology from LucidLogix provides dynamic switching between integrated graphics and high-end, 3D performance discrete graphics cards. This is deal for gamers who require high-resolution gaming and want to enjoy amazing built-in media features of 3rd Gen. Intel Core processors.
PCI Express Gen3 Ready - Double PCIe 2.0 Bandwidth
PCIe 3.0, the next generation of 32GB/s transmission speed, doubles the bandwidth of previous generation interconnect. PCIe 3.0 strongly builds up a better gaming platform ready for ultra graphics performance.
Intel® Smart Connect Technology - Always up-to-date
Intel® Smart Response Technology - Better, faster performance
Intel® Smart Response Technology accelerates the system response experience by putting frequently-used blocks of disk data on a solid-state drive (SSD), providing dramatically faster access to use data than the hard disk alone can provide.
Support HD Video Playbackk
Motherboard Intelligent BIOS X (M.I.B X - Ultimate BIOS O.C interface)
Providing the most intelligent and convenient way to adjust the clock/ voltage settings of CPU and memory and get the extra performance in advanced.
ECS O.C profile offers 3 sets of O.C values for CPU and DRAM to reach higher performances in a quick, simple and safe way. It keeps users’ preferable BIOS settings to regain your last successful O.C configuration to create the most convenient O.C experience.
Featuring Mini PCI Express Slot
The Mini-PCIe slot has a new 52 pin edge connector and it is much smaller in overall size. It is designed for laptops and other small-footprint computer systems and supports Mini-PCI card for mini- Wireless, mini-TV tuner, mini-SATA cards and so on.
ECS GUI UEFI BIOS
ECS GUI UEFI BIOS is a convenient tool for tweaking BIOS in Graphical interface. Users can select functions in BIOS with mouse and keyboard. The user-friendly interface with ECS designed wallpaper radically brings users convenience and easy-to-use experience.
ATI CrossFireX™ Technology Ready
Combining multi-GPU to deliver users a highest image quality and screen resolutions.
3X Current Supply for ECS EZ Charger
EZ Charger technology provides 3 times current than general USB port for USB devices. It’s useful and excellent, especially for the iPhone, iPAD and iPod touch devices that need a large amount of current for faster recharging within less time.
15u Gold Contact - 3 Times Extra Protection
It offers 3 times extra anti-oxidation, temperature resistant and scrape protection to ensure motherboards longest lifespan, better reliability and excellent contact.
Specifications:
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- LGA1155 socket for new 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 series processor/Intel® Core™ i5 series processor/Intel® Core™ i3 series processor/Intel® Pentium® processors/Intel® Celeron® Processors
- DMI 5.0GT/s
- TDP: 125W
- Note: Please go to ECS website for the latest CPU support list.
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| CHIPSET |
- Intel® Z77 Express Chipset
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| GRAPHICS |
- Integrated DirectX 11 graphics processor
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| MEMORY |
- Dual-channel DDR3 memory architecture
- 4 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM socket support up to 32 GB
- Support DDR3 up to 2800(OC)/2600(OC)/2400(OC)/2133(OC)/1800(OC)/1600 DDR3 SDRAM
- Note1: Please go to ECS website for the latest Memory support list.
- Note2: DDR3_1 with DDR3_3 are the same channel, DDR3_2 with DDR3_4 are the same channel by Intel Specifications
Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® 32-bit OS.
For Windows® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation
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| EXPANSION SLOT |
- 2 x PCI Express Gen 3.0 x16 slots
- 2 x PCI Express x1 slots
- 2 x PCI slots
- 1 x Mini PCI Express x1 slot
• Supports Mini SATA
• Supports Mini PCI Express
- (When using two VGA cards, the bandwidth is x8 badnwidth; when using one VGA card, the bandwidth is x16.)
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| STORAGE |
- Support by Intel® Z77
• 2 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s devices (SATA2 1/ 2)
• 2 x Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s devices (SATA3 3/ 4)
- Support by ASMEDIA ASM1061
• 2 x Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s devices (SATA3 5/ 6)
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| AUDIO |
- Realtek ALC892 8-Ch High Definition audio CODEC
- Compliant with HD audio specification
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| LAN |
- RealTek RTL 8111E Gigabit Lan
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| REAR PANEL I/O |
- 4 x USB 3.0 ports
- 4 x USB 2.0 Ports
- 1 x D-sub(VGA)
- 1 x HDMI Port
- 1 x DVI Port
- 1 x RJ45 LAN connector
- 1 x Audio port (Line-in,4x Line-out, SPDIF out)
- 1 x Wireless LAN Dongle
- 1 x Bluetooth Dongle
- 1 x eSATA 3Gb/s port
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| INTERNAL I/O CONNECTORS & HEADERS |
- 1 x 24-pin ATX Power Supply connector
- 1 x 8-pin ATX Power Supply Connector
- 1 x 4pin CPU_FAN connectors
- 1 x 3-pin SYS_FAN connector
- 1 x 3-pin PWR_FAN connector
- 1 x USB 2.0 header support additional 2 USB ports with EZ charger technology
- 1 x USB 3.0 header supports additional 2 USB 3.0 Ports
- 2 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2 1/ 2)
- 4 x Serial ATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3 3/ 4/ 5/ 6)
- 1 x COM header
- 1 x Clear CMOS header
- 1 x Case Open header
- 1 x Buzzer
- 1 x SPDIF out header
- 1 x Front panel audio header
- 1 x debug post LED
- 1 x Power on button
- 1 x Reset button
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| SYSTEM BIOS |
- AMI BIOS with 64Mb SPI Flash ROM
- Support ECS M.I.B X Utility
- Supports Plug and Play
- Supports ACPI & DMI
- Supports Plug and Play, STR (S3) / STD (S4) , Hardware monitor
- Audio, LAN, can be disabled in BIOS
- F7 hot key for boot up devices option
- Support over-clocking
- Supports Dual Display (Intel has Three Display)
- Support GUI UEFI BIOS
- Support Milti-language BIOS Utility
- Support eBLU
- Support eOC
- Support eDLU
- Support eSF
- Support EZ Charger
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