Processor and Chipsets on board

The picture below is an Intel Core i7-4770 processor Engineering Sample.

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This is the Intel Z87 chispet.

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Realtek ALC892 HD audio Codec

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Looks like the chipset does not support PCI slots. It uses Asmedia ASM1083 to provide a PCI slot

The ASM1083, x1 PCI Express to 32-bit PCI Bridge, enables users to connect legacy parallel bus devices to the advanced serial PCI Express interface.  The ASM1083 is a PCI Express-to-PCI forward bridge, fully compliant with PCI-SIG PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge Specification1.0.

 

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ASM1442 are the high speed TMDS level shift ICs for High Definition Multimedia
Interface (HDMI) and Digital Video Interface (DVI) video application

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Realtek Gigabit Ethernet Controller chip

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ASUS’s TPU chip

 

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By Harry

6 thoughts on “ASUS Z87-A Intel Z87 Haswell motherboard Review with Intel Core i7-4770 processor”
  1. Running the graphics test at 1024×768 it was just to show how powerfull is the CPU.
    In my opinion the good way would be to run all graphics test at hd resolution at 1280×800,
    like in Unigine Heaven. Small resolution with reduced detail is no struggle for a nowadays decent gpu. This CPU-GPU pair from Intel supposed to be one of the first one with “GPU”. And the benchmark just simply missed this point. Make the vga work hard, yes also for the amd counterpart. Let we see what they can do if we go over the word/excel/powerpoint type of works. 100 fps is useless in excel.

    1. Thanks for your response. Regarding Heaven Demo, it is tested in Basic mode which runs 1280×720 to test the internal graphics. Likewise we use the same method to test the AMD APUs e.g. A10-5800K

  2. You ask why performance dropped with overclocking? One word: Throttling. Haswell gets very hot, you need excellent cooling if you don’t want throttling during OC!

    1. You may be right but temperatures were ok. You don’t really need excellent cooling with this processor as 4.1GHz is really nothing compared to the 4770K running 4.7GHz on AIR.
      If you look at it, when the BCLK is raised, the other clks like DMI are also affected. In fact, at certain CLK levels>100mhz, the DMI drops below 90Mhz. Don’t forget we applied a ratio to the graphics core. If graphics core is set to default, it might not have affected the processor’s performance.

  3. Why even bother to test the 4770 along side with a i5 3570K.. not really any use since the 3570K is last gen and it is one model down at that too. more appropriate would be to use the i7 3770K as a point of reference for the 4770 as this will give a better review to if Haswell made any significant performance improvements in either processing power, energy savings,and video performance. Between the 3770K and 4770/k it seems more of a video improvement… at least on paper

    1. Sometimes it just happens that you don’t have the processor on hand. You are right the improvement is more on the video and power.

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