Mounting an affordable, low capacity mSATA SSD directly onto your motherboard can enhance your PC's performance with better overall desktop responsiveness, faster boot times and faster system resume from 'Suspend to Disk' and 'Standby' modes. Onboard mSATA SupportThe GA-H77-DS3H motherboard features an onboard mSATA slot, allowing users to easily take advantage of advanced SSD-based technologies like Intel Smart Response and Intel Rapid Start.No more waiting for the latest world news or friends' updates to be delivered - just press the 'on' button and you're up-to-date and ready to go. Intel Smart Connect TechnologyIntel Smart Connect Technology means that your email, favorite apps, and social networks are continually and automatically updated even when the system is asleep.The advanced mode combines the signature GIGABYTE BIOS expertise you've come to expect, wrapped a slick, new and optimized graphical UEFI interface. 3D Mode allows novice or casual users to more clearly understand the areas of the motherboard that are being affected through the BIOS settings, gaining a clearer understanding of the BIOS functionality. GIGABYTE's exclusive 3D mode offers a fully interactive and illustrative GUI, allowing users to easily and intuitively make key adjustments to the UEFI BIOS settings for optimum performance. 3D Mode & Advanced ModeThe GIGABYTE BIOS application offers a 3D mode and an advanced mode.Plus, DualBIOS helps prevent damage from power surge or failure during BIOS update, and can automatically enable a secondary, back up BIOS. UEFI BIOS also brings native support for large hard drives on 64-bit operating systems. With a superior graphical interface capable of 32-bit color imaging and fluid user-friendly mouse navigation, UEFI DualBIOS makes BIOS configuration a new and exciting experience for novice and experienced users alike. UEFI DualBIOS TechnologyAt the heart of this exciting 3D BIOS technology is a pair of physical BIOS ROMs containing GIGABYTE's exclusive in-house designed UEFI BIOS technology.It’s also comes equipped with HDMI/DVI interface for smoother HD video playback. It’s loaded with four USB 3.0 ports with superfast transfer rates of up to 5Gbps, two high speed SATA3 storage interfaces with superfast 6Gbps link speed – you’ll experience ultra-fast data transfers. This ensures you can enjoy new levels of 3D gaming and HD content manipulation. It has integrated with Intel HD Graphics, natively supporting multiple digital displays, DirectX 11 capable graphics, and Intel Quick Sync Video 2.0. Ready to take high-end componentsBased on Intel H77 chipset, the GA-H77-DS3H supports Intel Core i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron processors in the LGA1155 package.