ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X Killer / 3.1, Intel Z97 Motherboard - Socket 1150

The new chipset Z97 also supports the new Haswell refresh CPUs clocked 100MHz higher than its predecessor. In addition, the new and still partly future interfaces M.2 and SATA Express are supported by most Z97 motherboards. When something abgespeckteren H97 chipset, only the distribution of PCI Express lanes in operation with multiple graphics cards and overclocking are suppressed compared to the Z97, but this makes the H97 chipsets turn more favorable.

When ASRock Z97X Killer / 3.1 is a very well equipped Z97 motherboard, the fast quad-core processors of the Core i7 or Core i5 series is an ideal base. The black and red board comes with four DIMM slots for DDR3 memory in the fast dual-channel mode. As sound chip of Realtek ALC1150 is at Bo (a) rd who can spend more than five audio jacks and an optical S / PDIF output 7.1 sound.

A little highlight of ASRock Z97X Killer / 3.1 is also that – as the name suggests – a PCI Express x1 expansion card with two brand new USB 3.1 ports is supplied, including once with Type A and one with type C socket. The new USB Type-C port is particularly thin and can finally be connected at both ends. USB 3.1 is commonly associated with the maximum attainable speed of 10 Gbit / s twice as fast as USB 3.0.

The rest of the connectivity is also out extensively, the ATX motherboard provides total (partly external and partly internal) eight USB 3.0 ports and six USB 2.0 ports are available and manages hard drives and SSDs on six SATA 6G ports (including . RST 12 and RAID support), a SATA port and an Express M.2 port (Type 2260/2280). Expansion cards come in three PCIe 2.0 under (x1) -Slots and for graphics cards, three PCI-Express slots in the standard 3.0 ready.

If no graphics card is present, can be, thanks to the integrated GPU of Haswell processor (Intel HD), a monitor via the HDMI output, the VGA port or a DVI-D port to connect to the back of the motherboard. The ASRock motherboard convinced the bargain with two UEFI BIOS, the software supplied, as well as the Gigabit LAN controller by Killer (E2200).

Technical Details:

    Format: ATX
    Color: Black, Red
    Chipset: Intel Z97
    Socket 1150 (Intel Core i CPUs of 4th and 5th generation Haswell and Haswell refresh)
    RAM: 4x DDR3
    Dual-Channel
    Slots (physically):
    3x PCIe 3.0 x16
    Compatible Multi-VGA configurations: Quad SLI / Quad CrossFireX
    3x PCIe 2.0 x1
    Internal connections:
    6x SATA 6G
    1x SATA Express
    1x M.2 NGFF (type 2260/2280)
    2x USB 3.0 (1x header)
    4x USB 2.0 (2x header)
    1x COM
    6x fan
    Power / reset / LED / front-Audio
    External connections:
    1x PS / 2 keyboard / mouse
    6x USB 3.0
    2x USB 2.0
    1x Gigabit LAN (Killer E2200)
    1x S / PDIF (optical)
    1x HDMI
    1x DVI-D
    1x VGA (D-Sub)
    5x audio (7.1, Realtek ALC1150)
    PCIe add-on card:
    1x USB 3.1 Type-A
    1x USB 3.1 Type-C
    Chipset: ASMedia ASM1142
    Power supply:
    1x 24-pin ATX
    1x 8-pin ATX 12V
    Compatibility: Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1