The current generation of processors of the Core 6000 series, also known as the Skylake, partly due to the support for rapid and economical DDR4 memory needs a new base and new chipsets.
The current generation of processors of the Core 6000 series, also known as the Skylake, partly due to the support for rapid and economical DDR4 memory needs a new base and new chipsets.
The current generation of processors of the Core 6000 series, also known as the Skylake, partly due to the support for rapid and economical DDR4 memory needs a new base and new chipsets.
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In addition to the increased CPU power, the clearly bored graphics unit and the DDR4 support the CPUs themselves, the new series chipsets 100 ( Sunrise Point) offer some significant improvements. Instead of the previous eight PCI Express 2.0 lanes provides the Z170 chipset as top model now a full 20 lanes that are also with PCIe 3.0 still about twice as fast.
It is important that, among other things for the equipment with M.2 slots that now – depending on the motherboard – can contain up to three slots, each with four PCIe 3.0-lines, where it previously was only one slot, which in most cases was connected only with two data lines. This allows having a bandwidth of approximately 4 GB / s per slot, the use of several extremely fast M.2 SSDs and enables bypassing the slower SATA 6G standards, there are still up to six times. Even with USB 3.0 A lot has changed, from a maximum of 14 USB ports now support up to 10 fast 3.0 standard and not only at most 6. Overall, a Skylake CPU together with a series-100 chipset a very modern and well-equipped platform.
When ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming Aura is a very well equipped Z170 mainboard in ATX format, illustrating especially for fast quad-core processors the Core i7 or Core i5 series an ideal base – as Z170 board supports it of course also overclocking of CPUs of the K-series, which feature a freely selectable multiplier. The black Gamer Board with large, also black heatsinks has four DIMM slots for DDR4 memory in fast dual-channel mode. For graphics cards provides the board two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots ready to for a single or – can be used for two video cards – each in x8 mode. It supports both NVIDIA SLI board and AMD CrossFireX technology. Another slot in x16 format is connected with four lanes of the chipset, for additional plug-in cards are three PCIe x1 slots.
If a graphics card is present, can be thanks to the integrated graphics processor a Skylake CPU monitors connected directly to the back of the motherboard – this stand with HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI and VGA four ports. The ASUS motherboard convinced bargain among others with outstanding SupremeFX sound, an M.2 slot, 2 x USB 3.1 (1 x Type A 1 x type C), five fan connectors, a Gigabit LAN controller from Intel (I219 -V), XMP support and several overclocking features.
The main selling point is the built ASUS Aura RGB LED lighting, which allows up to twelve customizable lighting effects in all colors of the rainbow: Static, Breathing, strobing, color change, Rainbow, Comet, Flash and Dash, Wave, Glowing. Starry Night and pulsating music or – particularly handy – is changing depending on the CPU temperature.
Technical details:
Format: ATX
Color: Black
Chipset: Intel Z170 ( Sunrise Point)
Socket 1151 (for Intel CPUs the 6 core generation Skylake)
RAM: 4 x DDR4 (regularly DDR4-2.133)
Dual-Channel
Slots (physically):
3 x PCIe 3.0 x16
Compatible Multi-VGA configurations: Quad-GPU SLI and Quad-GPU CrossFireX
3 x PCIe x1
Internal connections:
2 x USB 3.0 (a header)
3 x USB 2.0 (three headers)
1 x M.2 NGFF (type 2242/2260/2280/22110)
1 x COM port
6 x SATA 6G
2 x 4-pin CPU fan (1x CPU fan & 1x CPU OPT fan)
3 x 4-pin chassis fan
1x ROG Extension
Power / Reset / LED / Front-Audio
External connections:
1 x PS / 2 keyboard / mouse
2 x USB 3.1 (1 x Type A + 1 x Type-C)
4 x USB 3.0
2 x USB 2.0
1 x Gigabit LAN (Intel I219-V)
1 x S / PDIF (optical)
1 x HDMI 1.4b
1 x DisplayPort 1.2
1 x DVI-D
1 x VGA
5 x audio (7.1, ASUS SupremeFX)
Power supply:
1 x 24-pin EATX
1 x 8-pin ATX 12V
