Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Motherboard

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Motherboard self-protection with loads of brilliant defenses, including our unique smart DIY features. Designed and engineered in co-operation with GIGABYTE®, this monoblock uses award winning EK-Supremacy EVO cooling engine to ensure best possible CPU cooling. Four DIMM slots can support up to 64GB of DDR4 memory up to 3,466MHz and beyond, depending on whether you plump for premium DIMMs, although remember you'll generally get a bit more OC leg-room from the Maximus VIII series motherboards. Since your gaming build is all about style and your personality, you can now put togetherthe most unique and customizable gaming setup with very little effort. The platform arrives in two parts, the first of which is the 100-series chipset family, spearheaded by the Z170 chipset, and the second is a new generation of 14nm CPUs based on the Skylake microarchitecture.

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The 8-phase CPU VRM has been buffed up to a 10-phase implementation, something that is welcomed given that Skylake overclocks in a different way to Haswell. It may not provide all the bravado-laden extras and expensive wizardry of flagship ROG products, but it still makes a solid foundation for a gaming system.

Exclusive GameFirst III prioritises game-related packets and allocates more bandwidth to games, eliminating laggy gameplay, streaming stutters and file-sharing slowdown — so you’ll always be the frontrunner. Compared to its predecessor, the Z97 Pro Gamer, not much has fundamentally changed with the Z170 Pro Gaming having the CPU socket and chipset alterations associated with a new platform.

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Gen1 (SuperSpeed USB) ports (4 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB 3. HDMI™ - The Next Generation Multimedia Interface HDMI™ is a High-Definition Multimedia Interface which provides up to 5Gb/s video transmitting bandwidth and 8-channel high quality audio all through a single cable. Current SSDs devour up to 550MB/s bandwidth, which is close to saturation point for SATA 6Gbit/s connections. These professional audio capacitors deliver the highest quality sound resolution and sound expansion to create the most realistic sound effects for professional gamers. It is worth pointing out that 6th and 7th Generation Intel processors will not be supported by Windows 11.Gen1 (SuperSpeed USB) ports (2 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB 3. With twice the bandwidth compared to its previous generation, and backwards compatibility with USB 2.