Review: Intel DZ77GA-70K and Intel Core i7-3770k

It’s time for another review and thanks to Intel we have the lovely Intel DZ77GA-70K motherboard and Intel i7-3770k processor to play around with and check out it’s performance. So let’s not mess around here and dive right into the specs of each piece of hardware.

Intel DZ77GA-70K Motherboard

Memory	Four 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets Support for DDR3 1600+ /1333 /1066 MHz DIMMs Support for up to 32 GB of system memory
Chipset	Intel® Z77 Express Chipset Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10
Graphics	Intel® HD Graphics, HDMI* Two PCI Express* 3.0 x16 connectors (one x8 electrical) Supports ATI CrossFireX* and NVIDIA SLI*
Audio	Intel® High Definition Audio (Intel® HD Audio) subsystem in the following configuration: 10-channel (7.1 + 2 independent multi-streaming) audio subsystem with six analog audio outputs w/optical S/PDIF out port Supports Dolby* Home Theatre V4
LAN support	Dual Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mb/s) LAN subsystems using the Intel® 82579V Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Peripheral interfaces	Eight SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports (4 external/4 header) Ten USB 2.0 ports (4 external (2 Hi-Current/Fast Charging) / 6 internal) Four Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s ports, one eSATA 6.0 Gb/s Four Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports Two IEEE 1394a ports/headers (1 external/1 header) Consumer infrared receiver and emitter
Expansion capabilities	Two PCI Express* 3.0 x16 connectors (one x8 electrical) Two PCI Express 2.0 x 1 connectors One PCI Express 2.0 x 4 connector Two PCI Conventional* bus connectors

Intel Core i7-3770k

of Cores	4
# of Threads	8
Clock Speed	3.5 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency	3.9 GHz
Intel® Smart Cache	8 MB
Bus/Core Ratio	35
DMI	5 GT/s
Instruction Set	64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions	SSE4.1/4.2, AVX
Embedded Options Available	No
Lithography	22 nm
Max TDP	77 W