Intel har endnu ikke officielt frigivet deres nye Ivy Bridge processorer, og bundkort producenterne venter også på at kunne frigive deres Z77 baserede bundkort. De første previews af Z77 bundkortene er dog begyndt at dukke op. Her i form af Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H Z77 bundkortet.

Moving on from the success of this, the new 3rd generation Intel CPUs are upon us and are literally a few weeks away. To support this new architecture a new platform has been born in the shape of Z77. While NDA restricts a lot of what we can say, we wanted to start dishing out the gossip on the boards that are due out in the coming weeks, starting with a budget board from Gigabyte.

Gigabyte are due to be releasing a huge array of different boards from the budget, to the gamer and to the extreme clocker. While all will have their unique features, for us today, it’s all about price and that’s where the Z77M-D3H comes in with budget/mainstream users set in its sights, we wanted to give a close-up view of the board and its included accessories.