• Gaming Armor
  CPU Power
  - Hi-Density Power Connector
  - Dual-Stack MOSFET (DSM)
  - Multiple Filter Cap (MFC) (Filter different noise by 3 different capacitors: DIP solid cap, POSCAP and MLCC)
  Memory
  - NexFET™ MOSFET
  - 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots
  VGA Card
  - 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2)
  - PCIe Power Connector
  Internet
  - Intel^® LAN
  - Qualcomm^® Atheros^® Killer™ LAN
  Cooling
  - XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink
  Audio
  - Creative Sound Core3D
• Unique Feature
  ASRock Super Alloy
  - XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink
  - Premium Alloy Choke (Reduces 70% core loss compared to iron powder choke)
  - Dual-Stack MOSFET (DSM)
  - NexFET™ MOSFET
  - Nichicon 12K Platinum Caps (100% Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors)
  - Sapphire Black PCB
  ASRock HDD Saver Technology
  ASRock Full Spike Protection
  ASRock Cloud
  ASRock APP Shop
• CPU
  - Supports 5^th Generation Intel^® Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium^® / Celeron^® Processors (Socket 1150)
  - Supports New 4^th and 4^th Generation Intel^® Xeon^® / Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium^® / Celeron^® Processors (Socket 1150)
  - Digi Power design
  - 12 Power Phase design
  - Supports Intel^® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology
  - Supports Intel^® K-Series unlocked CPUs
  - Supports ASRock BCLK Full-range Overclocking
• Chipset
  - Intel^® Z97
• Memory
  - Dual Channel DDR3/DDR3L Memory Technology
  - 4 x DDR3/DDR3L DIMM Slots
  - Supports DDR3/DDR3L 3200+(OC)/2933(OC)/2800(OC)/2400(OC)/2133(OC)/1866(OC)/1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
  - Max. capacity of system memory: 32GB*
  - Supports Intel^® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 1.3 / 1.2
  
  

  *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
  - 2 x 64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support (1 x Main BIOS and 1 x Backup BIOS)
  - Supports Secure Backup UEFI Technology
  - ACPI 1.1 Compliant wake up events
  - SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support
  - CPU, DRAM, PCH 1.05V, PCH 1.5V 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 4400/4600
  - Pixel Shader 5.0, DirectX 11.1
  - Max. shared memory 512MB*
  - Dual graphics output: Support HDMI and DisplayPort 1.2 ports by independent display controllers
  - Supports HDMI with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096x2304) @ 24Hz
  - Supports DisplayPort 1.2 with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096x2304) @ 24Hz or 4K x 2K (3840x2160) @ 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 HDMI and DisplayPort 1.2 Ports
  - Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) playback with HDMI and DisplayPort 1.2 Ports
  
  

  *The size of maximum shared memory may vary from different operating systems.
  
  **Intel^® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals and the VGA outputs can be supported only with processors which are GPU integrated.
  
  ***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
  - Supports Surge Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
  - Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps
  - Creative Sound Core3D quad-core sound and voice processor
  - Supports SBX Pro Studio
  - Supports CrystalVoice
  - Supports Scout Mode
  - Supports EAX1.0 to EAX5.0
  - Premium Headset Amplifier (PHA)
• LAN
  - 1 x Intel^® I218V (Gigabit LAN PHY 10/100/1000 Mb/s)
  - 1 x Qualcomm^® Atheros^® Killer™ E2200 Series (PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s)
  - Supports Intel^® Remote Wake Technology (on Intel^® I218V)
  - Supports Qualcomm^® Atheros^® Security Wake On Internet Technology (on Qualcomm^® Atheros^® Killer™ E2200 Series)
  - Supports Wake-On-LAN
  - Supports Lightning/ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
  - Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az
  - Supports PXE
• Slots
  - 3 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots (PCIE2/PCIE4/PCIE6: single at x16 (PCIE2); dual at x8 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE4); triple at x8 (PCIE2) / x4 (PCIE4) / x4 (PCIE6)
  - 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slot (PCIE1: x4 mode)
  - 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 Slots
  - 1 x mini-PCI Express Slot
  - Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, 3-Way CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
  - Supports NVIDIA^® Quad SLI™ and SLI™
• Storage
  - 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by Intel^® Z97, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel^® Rapid Storage Technology 13 and Intel^® Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI, Hot Plug and ASRock HDD Saver Technology
  - 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI, Hot Plug and ASRock HDD Saver Technology (SATA3_A2 connector is shared with the eSATA port)
  - 2 x SATA Express 10 Gb/s Connectors (SATAE_0 is shared with SATA3_1 and SATA3_2; SATAE_1 is shared with SATA3_4, SATA3_5 and M.2 Socket)*
  - 1 x eSATA Connector by ASMedia ASM1061, supports NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug
  - 1 x M.2_SSD (NGFF) Socket 3, supports M Key M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x2 (10 Gb/s)
  
  

  *Support to be announced.
  ** The M.2 Socket, SATAE_1, SATA3_4, SATA3_5 and SATA Express share lanes. If either one of them is in use, the others will be disabled.
• Connector
  - 1 x COM Port Header
  - 1 x TPM Header
  - 1 x Power LED Header
  - 2 x CPU Fan Connectors (1 x 4-pin, 1 x 3-pin)
  - 3 x Chassis Fan Connectors (1 x 4-pin, 2 x 3-pin)
  - 1 x Power Fan Connector (3-pin)
  - 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector
  - 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
  - 1 x HDD Saver Connector
  - 1 x PCIe Power Connector
  - 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector
  - 1 x Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector*
  - 2 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 4 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Headers (Support 4 USB 3.1 Gen1 ports) (ASMedia ASM1074 hub) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 1 x Dr. Debug with LED
  - 1 x Power Switch with LED
  - 1 x Reset Switch with LED
  - 1 x BIOS Selection Switch
  
  

  *Please update to the latest BIOS to support Thunderbolt™ technology.
• Rear Panel I/O
  - 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port
  - 1 x HDMI Port
  - 1 x DisplayPort 1.2
  - 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
  - 1 x eSATA Connector
  - 3 x USB 2.0 Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 1 x Fatal1ty Mouse Port (USB 2.0) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 4 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  - 2 x RJ-45 LAN Ports with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
  - 1 x Clear CMOS Switch
  - HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone
• Software and UEFI
  Software
  - ASRock F-Stream
  - ASRock Disk Health Report
  - ASRock USB Key
  - ASRock Key Master
  - ASRock APP Charger
  - ASRock XFast RAM
  - ASRock Restart to UEFI
  UEFI
  - ASRock Full HD UEFI
  - ASRock My Favorites in UEFI
  - ASRock UEFI Guide
  - ASRock Instant Flash
  - ASRock Internet Flash
  - ASRock Crashless BIOS
  - ASRock OMG (Online Management Guard)
  - ASRock UEFI System Browser
  - ASRock UEFI Tech Service
  - ASRock Dehumidifier
  - ASRock Easy RAID Installer
  - ASRock Easy Driver Installer
• Support CD
  - Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version), Google Chrome Browser and Toolbar, Start8 (30 days trial), Orbweb.ME Professional, XSplit, Killer Network Manager
• Accessories
  - 1 x ASRock SLI_Bridge_2S Card
  - Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield
  - 4 x SATA Data Cables
  - 1 x HDD Saver Cable
  - 1 x Screw for M.2_SSD (NGFF) Socket 3
  - 1 x Screw for mini-PCIe Slot
• Hardware Monitor
  - CPU, Chassis temperature sensing
  - CPU, Chassis, Power Fan Tachometer
  - CPU, Chassis Quiet Fan (Auto adjust chassis fan speed by CPU temperature)
  - CPU, Chassis Fan multi-speed control
  - Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Input Voltage, CPU Internal Voltages
• Form Factor
  - ATX Form Factor
  - High Density Glass Fabric PCB
• OS
  - Microsoft^® Windows^® 10 64-bit / 8.1 32-bit / 8.1 64-bit / 8 32-bit / 8 64-bit / 7 32-bit / 7 64-bit
• Certifications
  - FCC, CE
  - ErP/EuP ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required)

The specification is subject to change without notice in advance. The brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Any configuration other than original product specification is not guaranteed.

The above user interface picture is a sample for reference. The actual user interface may vary with the updated software version.