IIRC from what quiz told me in my build thread, z77 = ivy bridge with overclocking capabilities. H77 is ivy bridge with no overclocking,
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The native platform for Ivy Bridge is Intel 70 series chipsets where the letter is a Z, H, or probably Q or B, though the latter aren't really meant for consumers. Z77, Z75, and H77 are the main chipsets. H77 disables overclocking and SLI/CrossFire. I don't remember exactly what Z77 has that Z75 doesn't, but when I saw it, I was like, well that doesn't matter. I think it's something like support for 3-way SLI/CrossFire, Intel SRT, and possibly Lucid Virtu MVP.
Ivy Bridge is backward compatible to Intel 60 series chipsets if there is a motherboard BIOS update to support it. If you use an older motherboard, you might lose some features such as PCI Express 3.0, however.
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Im going to buy IB very soon. Maybe in next week.
I will buy an Asus P82Z77 http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77V/ or http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77V_PRO/
check the compability at the manufacturer
some boards might require a bios update
asus: http://event.asus.com/2011/mb/PCIe3_Ready/
The native platform for Ivy Bridge is Intel 70 series chipsets where the letter is a Z, H, or probably Q or B, though the latter aren't really meant for consumers. Z77, Z75, and H77 are the main chipsets. H77 disables overclocking and SLI/CrossFire. I don't remember exactly what Z77 has that Z75 doesn't, but when I saw it, I was like, well that doesn't matter. I think it's something like support for 3-way SLI/CrossFire, Intel SRT, and possibly Lucid Virtu MVP.
Ivy Bridge is backward compatible to Intel 60 series chipsets if there is a motherboard BIOS update to support it. If you use an older motherboard, you might lose some features such as PCI Express 3.0, however.