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Old February 4, 2013, 03:15 PM
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Question What is the difference between H77 and Z77 intel chipsets?
What is the difference between H77 and Z77 intel chipsets?

Looking on wikipedia, they seem to be essentially the same.

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Old February 4, 2013, 03:26 PM
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Z77 can overclock, H77 doesn't.
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^^^agree. The big thing is OC capable for the z77.
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Z77 can overclock, H77 doesn't.
And the PCIe x16 bandwidth can be seperated between two slots (x8/x8). But AFAIK that is pretty much it.
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