Asus P8H77-M User Manual

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1.14.2 Intel
®
Smart Response Technology
Intel
®
Smart Response Technology boosts overall system performance. It uses an installed
fast SSD (min. 20GB available) as a cache for frequently accessed operations, speeding up
hard drive/main memory interaction. Key benets are expedited hard drive speeds, reduced
load and wait times, and maximized storage utilization. Power consumption also goes down
by reducing unnecessary hard drive spin.
Before applying Intel
®
Smart Response Technology, setting the SATA Mode BIOS item to
[RAID mode] in BIOS setup is necessary. Refer to section 3.5.3 SATA Conguration for
details
Installing Intel
®
Smart Response Technology
1. Place the support DVD to the optical drive. The Drivers installation tab appears if your
computer has enabled the Autorun feature.
2. Click the
Drivers tab, then click Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology Driver software.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.
Using the Intel
®
Smart Response
Technology
1. Click Accelerate to launch Smart
Response Technology settings.
2. a. Select the SSD you want to use to
accelerate your storage system
b. Select the size allocated for SSD
caching.
c. Select which HDD for caching.
d.
Enhanced mode: WRITE
THROUGH, write to SSD and HDD at
the same time.
Maximized mode: WRITE BACK,
write to SSD and write back to HDD
in a later time.

Asus P8H77-M Specifications

General

ECC	No
Non-ECC	Yes
Memory voltage	1.5 V
Memory channels	Dual-channel
Memory slots type	DIMM
Number of memory slots	4
Supported memory types	DDR3-SDRAM
Maximum internal memory	32 GB
Supported memory clock speeds	1066, 1333, 1600, 1800, 1866, 2000, 2133, 2200 MHz
Supported memory module capacities	16GB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB
System bus rate	5 GT/s
Processor socket	LGA 1155 (Socket H2)
Processor manufacturer	Intel
Compatible processor series	Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7
Maximum number of SMP processors	1
USB 2.0 connectors	3
Number of SATA III connectors	2
Number of Parallel ATA connectors	0
USB 2.0 ports quantity	USB 2.0 ports have a data transmission speed of 480 Mbps, and are backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ports. You can connect all kinds of peripheral devices to them.
Audio chip	Realtek ALC887
Cooling type	Passive
Component for	PC
Power source type	ATX
Motherboard chipset	Intel H77
PC health monitoring	CPU, FAN, Temperature
Audio output channels	7.1 channels
Motherboard form factor	micro ATX
RAID levels	0, 1, 5, 10
Supported storage drive interfaces	SATA II, SATA III
Cables included	SATA
Graphics card	HD Graphics
OpenGL version	3.2
DirectX version	11
Maximum resolution	2048 x 1536 pixels
Maximum graphics card memory	1696 MB
Parallel processing technology support	2-Way CrossFireX, LucidLogix Virtu, Quad-GPU CrossFireX
PCI Express slots version	2.0, 3.0
PCI Express configurations	1x4, 1x16
LAN controller	Realtek RTL8111F
Wi-Fi standards	Not supported
Networking features	Gigabit LAN
Ethernet interface type	Gigabit Ethernet
BIOS type	EFI AMI
ACPI version	2.0a
BIOS memory size	64 Mbit

Weight and Dimensions

Width	245 mm