projectQ question.

[ThatSweetGamer]

Is this motherboard AM3+? I am guessing no but I just want to be sure.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/quo/projectq-run-any-os-the-unique-motherboard?ref=category

[Samdb]

I don't know what ProjectQ is, but if it's the link below it's Z77.

 

http://quocomputer.com/projectq/

[Jeroen1322]

Your avatar is perfectly synced with the music that i'm listning to right now hahaha

[88borus]

No I don';t think this motherboard is AM3+, I think it is Z77, which is Intel's LGA1155 (which supports Ivy bridge and Sandy bridge CPUs). I found this because the motherboard starts with "Z77" which is in the name of all LGA1155 names. In addition the three spec sheet images all have the bullet "Intel Z77 express chipset".  For a list of processors that the board will support you can look here. Beyond knowing that it is an Intel motherboard we can tell it will run PCIe3.0 at native 1 16x. The board has more PCIe lanes but, this is achieved by lane splitter, which will decrease bandwidth (which means you will have a slight performance drop on any PCIe card that you use, probably most notably with graphics cards, buts ts nothing devastating especially because graphics cards can run at 8x if need be). We can also see that all of the SATA ports are run on the Intel chipset as are as the USB2.0 ports and USB 3.0 ports. The firewire will be run off a third party chipset as the Z77 chipset does not have any firewire support. The Gigabyte Ethernet will run on the intel chipset as will the thunderbolt port. It also shows that you will be able to run RAM at native speed up to 1600mHz, this isn't that big of a deal because the greater speed won't benefit most people anyway. That's about it and I hope it can help, but why are they advertising a motherboard that supports every OS, I can do that now (run Windows or linux or make a hackintosh)?