user manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction
Chapter 1
Complete USB 3.0 Integration
ASUS facilitates the strategic USB 3.0 accessibility for both the front and rear panel – 6 USB
3.0 ports in total. Experience the latest plug & play connectivity at speeds up to 10 times
faster than USB 2.0. The P8Z77-I DELUXE/WD affords greater convenience to high speed
connectivity.
Intel
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Smart Response Technology
SSD Speed with HDD Capacity
Intel
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Smart Response Technology boosts overall system performance. It uses an installed
fast SSD (min 18.6GB available capacity required) as a cache for frequently accessed data.
Key benets include reduced load and wait times, and lower power consumption through the
elimination of unnecessary hard drive spin. This technology combines SSD performance with
hard drive capacity, operating up to 6X faster than a hard drive-only system, and an important
part of Green ASUS eco-friendly computing.
*Intel® Smart Response Technology is supported by 2nd/3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor family on
Windows® 7™ operating systems.
**Operating systems must be installed on the HDD to launch Intel® Smart Response Technology.
***The capacity of the SSD is reserved for caching function.
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Smart Connect Technology
Your computer can receive fresh updates for selected applications, even when the system
is in sleep mode. This means less time waiting for applications to update and sync with the
cloud, leading to a more efcient computing experience.
Intel
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Rapid Start Technology
Allows your computer to quickly resume from a lower-power hibernate state in seconds.
Saving system memory to the designed SSD provides your computer a faster wake-up
response time while keeping the energy use low.
1.1.2 Dual Intelligent Processors 2 with DIGI+ VRM
The world’s rst Dual Intelligent Processors from ASUS pioneered twin onboard chips
- TPU (TurboV Processing Unit) and EPU (Energy Processing Unit). New generation Dual
Intelligent Processors 2 with DIGI+ VRM digital power design launch control into a new
era, empowering users with superior exibility and perfect precision to ensure optimized
performance, extreme system stability and greater power efciency.
ASUS DIGI+ VRM
Digital Power Control: Digital power Design for the CPU and iGPU.
All-new digital CPU power controls work perfectly together to match digital power signal
(SVID) requests from the CPU, with ultra-fast sensing and response efciently delivering
precision power. Accurate delivery reduces waste, and provides more stable CPU Vcore
voltages. Users can adjust CPU and its processor graphics (iGPU) voltages for various
overclocking scnearios, with accurate input through UEFI BIOS tuning or the exclusive ASUS
interface. This proprietary design increases overclocking headroom to push performance to
its full performance.