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Q77H2-M
USER MANUAL
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Introducing the Motherboard
Introduction
Your motherboard package ships with the following items:
Package Contents
Q77H2-M Motherboard
Quick Installation Guide
User Manual
DVD
I/O Shield
2 SATA Cables
The package contents above are for reference only, please take the actual
package items as standard.
Thank you for choosing the Q77H2-M motherboard. This motherboard is a high per-
formance, enhanced function motherboard designed to support the LGA1155 socket
for
2
nd
/3
rd
Generation Intel
®
Sandy/Ivy Bridge processors for high-end business or
personal desktop markets.
This motherboard is based on Intel
®
Q77 Chipset for best desktop platform solution.
Q77 is a single-chip, highly integrated, high performance Hyper-Threading periph-
eral controller, unmatched by any other single chip-device controller. This
motherboard supports up to 32 GB
of system memory with
dual channel DDR3 1600/
1333 SDRAM
. One PCI slot is supported, fully compliant with PCI rev 2.2 specification
at 33MHz. High resolution graphics via one PCI Express x16 slot, intended for Graph-
ics Interface, is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 3.0.
And one PCI Express x16 slot (with x4 connectivity) is supported, is compliant with all
PCIe x1 device of AVLC, it has independent video out when install a VGA card. In
addition, one PCI Express x1 slot is supported, is fully compliant to the PCI Express
Base Specification revision 2.0. It implements an EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller
Interface) compliant interface that provides ten USB 2.0 ports (four USB 2.0 ports at
the back panel and three USB 2.0 headers support additional six USB 2.0 ports) and
four USB 3.0 ports (two USB 3.0 ports at the back panel and one USB 3.0 header
supports additional two USB 3.0 ports).
The motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports in the rear panel,
including PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard connectors, one D-sub (VGA) port, one Se-
rial port (COM1), one Display port, one HDMI port, one LAN port, four USB 2.0 ports,
two USB 3.0 ports, and audio jacks for line-in, line-out and microphone.
In addition, this motherboard supports two SATA 6.0Gb/s connectors and four SATA
3.0Gb/s connectors.