MB-AZ270M9E Review

Asus ROG series Z270 Maximus 9(iX) Extreme: all-in-one LGA 1151 (sKylake/ Kabylake) Motherboard, with ROG Armor (reinforced top cover+backplate) + CrossChill EK II Watercooling for MB component + Pre-mounted I/O panel, 3D-printing-friendly design for various add-on parts, Aura Sync + RGB LED on PCB with 9 colours scheme, support Optane 3D-Xpoint dimm when using Kabylake, dual intelligent processors (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), 12x on-board hardware-level control buttons (QLED+ Q-code debug display+ LN2 jumper+ Slow mode switch+ pause switch+ RSVD switch+ PCiE switch+ dram jumper+ retry button + safeboot button+ probeit+ Mem!ok button+ BioS switch), ROG RAMCACHE ii + RAMDisk (10x faster than SSD) + Sonic Radar iii + 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, BlueTooth + WiFi-Go, with FBT+ SRT+ SCT+ RRT+ SBA+ Rapid Storage + Rapid Start Technology, with fan(x3) extension card - Intel Z270 chipset, 4x dual channel DDR4-4133(O.C)/2133 with XMP support up to 64Gb, 6x SATA6G + 2x 32Gb/sec M.2/NGFF type22110 (PCIe or SATA or Optane mode) SSD socket with raid 0/1//0+1/5/10, on-board dual-display VGA with dual-output (DP + HDMi) + SupremeFX DTS ALC S1220A 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 867Mbps WiFi with 2T2R antenna + Bluetooth; 1x pci-e(1x), 1x pci-e(4x), 3x pci-e 3.0(16x) for Quad-GPU SLi/CrossfireX , with 1x USB3.1 type-A + 1x USB3.1 type-C + 6x USB3.0, with Thunderbolt2 header, 1x PS2 - atx