User Manual

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7th Generation Intel® Core™ and Celeron® Desktop Processor Families with Intel® H110 and Intel® Q170 Chipsets
KEY FEATURES
INTEL® BUILT-IN VISUALS
NEW Accelerated 4K hardware media codecs: Enhances high-density streaming applications and optimized 4K videoconferencing with HEVC
(10-bit), VP8, VP9, and VDENC encoding, decoding, and transcoding.
NEW 4K Ultra HD support: Provides stunning display resolutions,
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now up to 4096 x 2304 pixels, and supports performance across three
independent displays with audio.
Gen9 graphics: Supports the latest graphics APIs DirectX* 12 and OpenGL* 4.5 for improved 3D rendering performance at low power.
Intel® HD Graphics: Plays HD video with exceptional clarity; permits viewing and editing of even the smallest image details.
Intel® Quick Sync Video: Delivers excellent videoconferencing capability, fast video conversion, and fast video editing and authoring.
Multiplane overlay: Enables faster, smoother, higher-quality video playback and improved 3D graphics.
PERFORMANCE
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2): Provides optimized instructions to deliver enhanced performance on floating point–intensive
apps, adding 256-bit integer instructions and new instructions for fused multiply add (FMA), which delivers better performance on media and
floating-point computations.
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
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2.0: Dynamically increases the processor’s frequency, as needed, by taking advantage of thermal and power
headroom when operating below specified limits.
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology: Delivers two processing threads per physical core. Highly threaded applications can get more work done
in parallel, completing tasks sooner.
Faster memory performance: Offers new DDR4 memory support, including new support for DDR4 1.2V up to 2133, 64GB max capacity with
8GB density.
HSIO: Increases flexibility from 18 to 26 total HSIO ports,
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from up to eight PCIe* 2.0 to 20 PCIe 3.0 ports,
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and from up to six USB 3.0 to
10 USB 3.0 ports.
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SECURITY
Intel® Identity Protection Technology (Intel® IPT) with multifactor authentication (MFA): Provides enhanced security by verifying the boot
portion of the boot sequence; protects your one-time password (OTP) credentials and PKI certificates and adds a layer of encrypted second-factor
authentication for online transactions.
Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI): Helps provide security for a variety of encryption apps, including whole-disk
encryption, file-storage encryption, conditional access of HD content, Internet use, and VoIP. Consumers benefit from more protected Internet and
email content, plus fast, responsive disk encryption.
Intel® OS Guard: Helps protect the OS kernel and aids in preventing the use of malicious data or attack code located in areas of memory marked as user-
mode pages from taking over or compromising the OS kernel. Intel OS Guard is not application-specific and protects the kernel from any application.
Intel® Platform Trust Technology with BIOS Guard: Safeguards credential storage and key management, while helping reduce
BOM cost and board space.
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX): Allows application developers to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access or modification by
rogue software running at higher privilege levels; secures data while in use in a Windows* or Linux* environment.
Intel® Data Protection Technology (Intel® DPT) with Intel® Boot Guard: Helps prevent unauthorized software and malware takeover of boot blocks
critical to a system’s function, thus providing an added level of platform security based on hardware.
Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX) : Identifies errant pointer usage which, if left undetected, puts an application at risk of data
corruption or malicious attack via buffer overruns and overflows. By adding extensions to the underlying architecture, Intel MPX achieves improved
performance over software-based solutions.
Intel® Secure Key: Generates high-quality keys for cryptographic (encryption and decryption) protocols, and provides quality entropy that is highly
sought after for added security.
BIOS Guard: Augments existing chipset-based BIOS flash protection capabilities targeted to address the increasing malware threat to BIOS flash
storage; protects from modification without platform manufacturer authorization, helps defend the platform against low-level denial of service (DOS)
attacks, and restores BIOS to a known good state after an attack.
VMCS shadowing: Allows a Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) running as a guest (nested virtualization) to access a shadow VMCS memory area
using the normal VMRead/VMWrite instructions. This reduces overhead for a more natural and responsive user experience, allowing users to take
control of their personal and professional data and apps while being protected by game-changing security.