DESCRIZIONE

• Gaming Armor
  Power
  - Hi-Density Power Connectors (24 pin and 8 pin)
  Memory
  - 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots
  VGA Card
  - 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2)
  Internet
  - Intel^® LAN
  Cooling
  - XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink
  Audio
  - Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3
• Unique Feature
  ASRock Super Alloy
  - XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink
  - Premium 40A Power Choke
  - Nichicon 12K Black Caps (100% Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors)
  - I/O Armor
  - Matte Black PCB
  - High Density Glass Fabric PCB
  ASRock Intel^® 4-Layer Memory POOL (Planes on Outer Layers) Technology
  ASRock Steel Slots
  ASRock Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
  ASRock Full Spike Protection
  ASRock Live Update & APP Shop
• CPU
  - Supports 7^th and 6^th Generation Intel^® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium^®/Celeron^® Processors (Socket 1151)
  - Digi Power design
  - 8 Power Phase design
  - Supports Intel^® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology
  - Supports Intel^® K-Series unlocked CPUs
  - Supports ASRock BCLK Full-range Overclocking
• Chipset
  - Intel^® Z270
• Memory
  - Dual Channel DDR4 Memory Technology
  - 4 x DDR4 DIMM Slots
  - Supports DDR4 3733+(OC)*/3600(OC)/3200(OC)/2933(OC)/2800(OC)/2400**/2133 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
  - Supports ECC UDIMM memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)
  - Max. capacity of system memory: 64GB***
  - Supports Intel^® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 2.0
  - 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots
  
  

  *Please refer to Memory Support List on ASRock's website for more information.
  
  **7th Gen Intel^® CPU supports DDR4 up to 2400; 6^th Gen Intel^® CPU supports DDR4 up to 2133.
  
  ***Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows^® 32-bit OS. For Windows^® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation.
• BIOS
  - 128Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support
  - ACPI 6.0 Compliant wake up events
  - SMBIOS 2.7 Support
  - CPU, GT_CPU, DRAM, VPPM, PCH 1.0V, VCCIO, VCCST, VCCSA, VCCPLL Voltage Multi-adjustment
• Graphics
  - Supports Intel^® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals : Intel^® Quick Sync Video with AVC, MVC (S3D) and MPEG-2 Full HW Encode1, Intel^® InTru™ 3D, Intel^® Clear Video HD Technology, Intel^® Insider™, Intel^® HD Graphics
  - Gen9 LP, DX11.3, DX12
  - HWAEncode/Decode: VP8, HEVC 8b, VP9, HEVC 10b (For 7^th Gen Intel^® CPU)
  - HWA Encode/Decode: VP8, HEVC 8b; GPU/SWEncode/Decode: VP9, HEVC 10b (For 6^thGen Intel^® CPU)
  - Max. shared memory 1024MB*
  - Three graphics output options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI
  - Supports Triple Monitor
  - Supports HDMI with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096x2160) @ 24Hz / (3840x2160) @ 30Hz
  - Supports DVI-D with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz
  - Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz
  - Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI Port (Compliant HDMI monitor is required)
  - Supports HDCP with DVI-D and HDMI Ports
  - Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) playback with DVI-D and HDMI Ports
  
  

  *Intel^® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals and the VGA outputs can be supported only with processors which are GPU integrated.
  
  **The size of maximum shared memory may vary from different operating systems.
  
  ***Due to chipset limitation, the Blu-ray playback of Intel^® HD Graphics is only supported under Windows^® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit.
  
  ****Intel^® InTru™ 3D is only supported under Windows^® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit.
• Audio
  - 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
  - Premium Blu-ray Audio support
  - Supports Surge Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
  - Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps
  - 120dB SNR DAC with Differential Amplifier
  - TI^® NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier for Front Panel Audio Connector (Supports up to 600 Ohm headsets)
  - Pure Power-In
  - Direct Drive Technology
  - PCB Isolate Shielding
  - Impedance Sensing on Front Out port
  - Individual PCB Layers for R/L Audio Channel
  - AURA RGB LED
  - Gold Audio Jacks
  - 15μ Gold Audio Connector
  - Supports Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3
• LAN
  - Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
  - Giga PHY Intel^® I219V
  - Supports Wake-On-LAN
  - Supports Lightning/ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
  - Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az
  - Supports PXE
• Slots
  - 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots (PCIE2: x16 mode; PCIE4: x4 mode)*
  - 4 x PCI Express 3.0 x1 Slots (Flexible PCIe)**
  - Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
  - 1 x M.2 Socket (Key E), supports type 2230 WiFi/BT module***
  - 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2)
  
  

  *Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
  
  **If PCIE5 or PCIE6 is occupied, PCIE4 will run at x2 mode.
  
  ***If M2_3 is occupied, PCIE3 will be disabled.
• Storage
  - 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel^®Rapid Storage Technology 15 and Intel^® Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug**
  - 2 x Ultra M.2 Sockets, support type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)**
  
  

  *If M2_1 is occupied by a SATA-type M.2 device, SATA_5 will be disabled.
  If M2_2 is occupied by a SATA-type M.2 device, SATA_0 will be disabled.
  Supports ASRock U.2 Kit
  
  **Supports Intel^® Optane™ Technology
  Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
• Connector
  - 1 x COM Port Header
  - 1 x TPM Header
  - 1 x Chassis Intrusion Header
  - 1 x Power LED and Speaker Header
  - 1 x AURA RGB LED Header*
  - 1 x CPU Fan Connector (4-pin)**
  - 2 x Chassis Fan Connectors (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)
  - 1 x Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fan Connector (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)***
  - 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
  - 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
  - 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector (15μ Gold Audio Connector)
  - 1 x Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector (5-pin)
  - 1 x Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector (10-pin)****
  - 3 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 5 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 2 x USB 3.0 Headers (Support 4 USB 3.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  
  

  *Supports up to 12V/3A, 36W LED Strip.
  
  **The CPU Fan Connector supports the CPU fan of maximum 1A (12W) fan power.
  
  ***The Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fan supports the water cooler fan of maximum 1.5A (18W) fan power.
  CHA_FAN2 can auto detect if 3-pin or 4-pin fan is in use.
  
  ****Only one Thunderbolt™ AIC Card is supported.
• Rear Panel I/O
  - 2 x Antenna Ports
  - 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port
  - 1 x D-Sub Port
  - 1 x DVI-D Port
  - 1 x HDMI Port
  - 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
  - 1 x USB 2.0 Port (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 1 x Fatal1ty Mouse Port (USB 2.0) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 3 x USB 3.0 Type-A Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 1 x USB 3.0 Type-C Port (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
  - HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone (Gold Audio Jacks)
• Software and UEFI
  Software
  - ASRock F-Stream
  - ASRock AURA RGB LED
  - ASRock Key Master
  - ASRock APP Charger
  - ASRock XFast LAN*
  UEFI
  - ASRock EZ Mode
  - ASRock Full HD UEFI
  - ASRock My Favorites in UEFI
  - ASRock Instant Flash
  - ASRock Internet Flash
  - ASRock Crashless BIOS
  - ASRock UEFI System Browser
  - ASRock UEFI Tech Service
  - ASRock Easy RAID Installer
  
  

  *These utilities can be downloaded from ASRock Live Update & APP Shop.
• Support CD
  - Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version), Google Chrome Browser and Toolbar
• Accessories
  - Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield
  - 4 x SATA Data Cables
  - 3 x Screws for M.2 Sockets
• Hardware Monitor
  - Temperature Sensing: CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
  - Fan Tachometer: CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
  - Quiet Fan (Auto adjust chassis fan speed by CPU temperature): CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
  - Fan Multi-Speed Control: CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
  - CASE OPEN detection
  - Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore, DRAM, VPPM, PCH 1.0V, VCCSA, VCCST
• Form Factor
  - ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 9.6-in, 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm
• OS
  - Microsoft^® Windows^® 10 64-bit (For 7^th Gen Intel^® CPU)
  - Microsoft^® Windows^® 10 64-bit / 8.1 64-bit / 7 32-bit / 7 64-bit (For 6^th Gen Intel^® CPU)*
  
  

  *To install Windows^® 7 OS, a modified installation disk with xHCI drivers packed into the ISO file is required. Please check our User Manual for more detailed instructions.
  For the updated Windows^® 10 driver, please visit ASRock's website for details.
• Certifications
  - FCC, CE, WHQL
  - ErP/EuP ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required)