ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming, Intel Z170 Mainboard - Socket 1151

It is important that, among others, 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 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 is a very modern and well-equipped platform.

When ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming is a very well equipped Z170 mainboard in ATX format, which represents particularly for fast quad-core processors of the Core i7 or Core i5 series an ideal base – as Z170 board supports it of course also overclocking of CPUs the K-series, which are equipped with a freely selectable multiplier. The black Gamer Board with large, also black heatsinks and red accents features four DIMM slots for DDR4 memory in fast dual-channel mode. For graphics cards provides the board two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots ready for the single or – can be used for dual graphics 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 on the chipset, for further plug-in cards, three PCIe x1 slots.

If no 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 related to HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI and VGA four ports. The ASUS motherboard convinced bargain among others with outstanding SupremeFX sound, a M.2 slot, 2 x USB 3.1 (1 x Type A 1 x type C), six fan connectors, a Gigabit LAN controller of Intel (I219 -V), XMP support and several overclocking features.

Technical Details:

    Format: ATX
    Color: Black, Red
    Chipset: Intel Z170 (Sunrise Point ?? ??)
    Socket 1151 (?? for Intel CPUs the 6th generation Core 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, Quad-GPU CrossFireX
    3 x PCIe x1
    Internal connections:
    6 x SATA 6G (including 2 as SATA Express)
    1 x SATA Express
    1 x M.2 NGFF (type 2242/2260/2280/22110)
    2 x USB 3.0 (a header)
    6 x USB 2.0 (three headers)
    1 x ROG extension
    5 x fan (4-pin)
    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 (Single Link)
    1 x VGA
    5 x audio (7.1, ASUS SupremeFX)
    Power supply:
    1 x 24-pin EATX
    1 x 8-pin ATX 12V