ASROCK Fatal1ty Z77 Professional-M series User Manual

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1. If a customer incorrectly congures their system they will not see the
performance benets of CrossFireX
TM
. All three CrossFireX
TM
components, a
CrossFireX
TM
Ready graphics card, a CrossFireX
TM
Ready motherboard and a
CrossFireX
TM
Edition co-processor graphics card, must be installed correctly to
benet from the CrossFireX
TM
multi-GPU platform.
2. If you pair a 12-pipe CrossFireX
TM
Edition card with a 16-pipe card, both cards
will operate as 12-pipe cards while in CrossFireX
TM
mode.
2.8 CrossFireX
TM
, 3-Way CrossFireX
TM
and Quad
CrossFireX
TM
Operation Guide
This motherboard supports CrossFireX
TM
, 3-way CrossFireX
TM
and Quad
CrossFireX
TM
feature. CrossFireX
TM
technology offers the most advantageous
means available of combining multiple high performance Graphics Processing
Units (GPU) in a single PC. Combining a range of different operating modes with
intelligent software design and an innovative interconnect mechanism, CrossFireX
TM
enables the highest possible level of performance and image quality in any 3D
application. Currently CrossFireX
TM
feature is supported with Windows
®
XP with
Service Pack 2 / Vista
TM
/ 7 OS. 3-way CrossFireX
TM
and Quad CrossFireX
TM
feature
are supported with Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ 7 OS only. Please check AMD website for
ATI
TM
CrossFireX
TM
driver updates.
2.8.1 Graphics Card Setup
2.8.1.1 Installing Two CrossFireX
TM
-Ready Graphics Cards
Step 1. Insert one Radeon graphics card into PCIE1 slot and the other Radeon
graphics card to PCIE3 slot. Make sure that the cards are properly seated
on the slots.
Different CrossFireX
TM
cards may require different methods to enable CrossFireX
TM
feature. For other CrossFireX
TM
cards that AMD has released or will release in the
future, please refer to AMD graphics card manuals for detailed installation guide.

ASROCK Fatal1ty Z77 Professional-M series Specifications

General

Chipset	Intel Z77
CPU Socket	LGA 1155
Max Memory	32GB
Memory Standard	DDR3 2800+(OC)/2400(OC)/2133(OC)/1866(OC)/1600/1333/1066
PCI Slots	1
Audio Chipset	Realtek ALC898
LAN Chipset	Broadcom BCM57781
Max. LAN Speed	10/100/1000Mbps
Form Factor	Micro ATX
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
Memory Slots	4
PCI Express x16	2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16
PCI Express x1	1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1
SATA 6Gb/s	4 x SATA 6Gb/s
SATA 3Gb/s	4 x SATA 3Gb/s
USB 3.0	4 (2 rear, 2 via header)
USB 2.0	8 x USB 2.0 ports (4 on the rear panel, 4 via headers)
Audio	7.1 Channel HD Audio
LAN	Gigabit LAN
Dimensions	9.6" x 9.6"
Power Pin	24 Pin
Onboard Video Chipset	Depends on CPU (Intel HD Graphics)
Multi-GPU Support	NVIDIA SLI, AMD CrossFireX