Connectors and I/O

Totally ASUS provided the P8Z77-V Premium with eight angled and one straight SATA ports which should be enough for any office PC, gaming system or enthusiast build. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons. ASUS even thought of a debug display which is very useful if you should once experience issues with one of the components in your system. Another, rather unusual, feature can be found in the bottom right corner of the PCB. ASUS chose to put a 32 Gigabyte mSATA-SSD into the mini PCIe slot. If you should own a standard hard drive but no SSD you can activate Intel Smart Cache and accelerate your system like this.

 

Totally you'll find six fan headers on the P8Z77-V Premium which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU socket as well as at the bottom edge of the mainboard.

  

Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel ASUS equipped the P8Z77-V Premium with two USB 2.0 ports, four USB 3.0 ports, two eSATA ports, two gigabit ethernet ports, an optical out as well as an analogue audio panel. Furthermore there is also an HDMI and a DisplayPort connector. Like the name of the board suggests there is also the new Thunderbolt port. Last but not least ASUS decided to place a BIOS reset button at the back panel.