MB-AZ170M8E Review

Asus ROG series Z170 Maximus 8(Viii) Extreme: all-in-one LGA 1151 (sKylake) Motherboard, with bundled 2.6" display OC panel ii (for 5.25" bay or external), dual intelligent processors5 (for TPU EPU DiGi FanExpert3) with 5-Way Optimization 5X protection (DiGi VRM digital power design OCP ESD guard 10K Black Metallic capacitors stainless steel back I/O port), Bluetooth WiFi-Go, Q-code debug display, multi-colour LED display on ROG logo heatsink, ROG RAMDisk (10x faster than SSD) Sonic Radar II GameFirst III Intel LAN KeyBot II (assign function/ macro/ shortcut to F1-F10) TrueVolt 5V USB dedicated ROG UEFi bios with SSD Secure Erase to recover lost performance DAEMON Tools Pro virtual discs (DVD/BD) utility Mem TweakIt ROG CPU-Z Mem!ok button USB BioS Flashback DirectKey for direct BIOS access, with FBT SRT SCT RRT SBA Rapid Storage Rapid Start Technology - Intel Z170 chipset, 4x dual channel DDR4-3866(O.C)/2133 with XMP support up to 32Gb, 8x SATA6G (2x 10Gb/sec SATA-express) 1x U.2 (2.5" NVMe) 32Gb/sec M.2/NGFF type22110 (PCI-e or SATA mode) SSD socket with raid 0/1//0 1/5/10, on-board dual-display VGA with dual-output (DP HDMi) SupremeFX-2015 DTS 7.1 audio (with ESS ES9023P DAC 2VRMS headphone output NEC de-pop relay dedicated clock gold-plated connectors optical s/pdif out Sonic SoundStage button) Intel 219V gigabit LAN 2.4/5GHz dual band 802.11AC 1300Mbps WiFi with 3T3R antenna Bluetooth; 2x PCI-e(1x), 4x PCI-e 3.0(16x) for Quad-GPU SLi/ Crossfire X, with 3x USB3.1 type-A 1x USB3.1 type-C 4x USB3.0, USB3.0 with UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol), with Thunderbolt2 header, 1x PS2 - E-atx