Product Showcase
Here we can seem that a diagnostic POST status led when powered up, as simple as these things are, I love them.
Both the Intel PCH and a PLX chip are covered by an active fan. No worries it's dead silent. The EVGA Z77 FTW motherboard supports PCI-E 3.0 performance via a PLX 8747 PCI-E 3.0 certified bridge chip.
This allows the EVGA Z77 FTW to populate all PCI-E 3.0 slots at the maximum bandwidth possible. The PCI-E lane configuration is as follows:
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1 Card: x16
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2 Cards: x16 x16 (Slot 2 & Slot 4)
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3 Cards: x8 - x16 - x16
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4 Cards: x8 - x16 - x8 - x8
The board also supports LucidLogix Virtu MVP Technology and thus Supports NVIDIA SLI and up-to 4-Way CrossFireX. Next to the colored frontpanel headers we see a switch, the motherboard in fact has triple BIOS support. Again for tweaking, testing and enthusiast settings. That and should you ever have a firmware flash fail on you, you got two BIOSes left to try out.
