SUPERIOR SPECS
BEST GAMING AUDIO
BEST GAMING PERFORMANCE
BEST GAMING NETWORKING
BEST GAMING PROTECTION
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ROG provides you with the very best gaming-audio inputs and outputs, with special shielded designs, and a collection of carefully selected professional-grade audio components, including an ESS ES9023P digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with Hyperstream™ technology, ultra-low-jitter clock, Nichicon capacitors, 2Vrms headphone amp, and Sonic SenseAmp that automatically detects and optimizes any headset (32-600 ohms) for purest sound quality. SupremeFX 2015 also features intuitive Sonic Studio II for you to apply and enjoy different audio effects for perfect entertainment, plus Perfect Noise noise-cancellation technology for team conversations with total clarity.
ULTRA-DURABLE GOLD-PLATED AUDIO CONNECTORS
Distortion-free for enhanced audio-signal input and output.
SUPERMEFX AUDIO PROCESSOR
Ten DAC channels, simultaneous 7.1-channel playback, independent 2.0-channel, multiple-stream stereo to front-panel outputs, and an EMI cover for purer audio quality.
HIGH-PRECISION CLOCK SOURCE
High-accuracy timing technology ensures ultra-low jitter by preventing fluctuating temperatures.
RC4580 2 VRMS HEADPHONE AMP
Deliver the highest-quality sound resolution and expansion for especially warm and natural audio.
NICHICON CAPACITORS
Distortion-free for enhanced audio-signal input and output.
DE-POP RELAY
Dedicated relay eliminates the popping sound when the system is powered on or off, or devices are attached or removed.
SONIC SENSE AMP
Automatically detects and optimizes headphone impedance (32-600 ohms)
ESS® ES9023P DIGITAL-TO-AUDIO CONVERTER (DAC)
Creates a perfect balance for top-tier audio clarity capable of -94dB THD.
Blocks electromagnetic interference from the motherboard or add-ons to provide cleaner audio.
Blocks electromagnetic interference from the motherboard or add-ons to provide cleaner audio.
One-click virtual-surround function emulates 7.1 channels, even through a stereo (2.0-channel) headset. It offers five more superb audio controls, including Reverb, Bass Boost, Equalizer, Voice Clarity and Smart EQ — ensuring that everything you hear sounds just amazing. 
Casting Enhancer improves both streaming and recording audio quality, reducing noise artifacts and stabilizing overall voice volume. It also improves all the rich details and boost bass effect of in-game sounds and music playback. 
Perfect Voice reduces noise for both incoming and outgoing communications during in-game chat so every teammate is heard and no command is missed.
Casting Enhancer improves both streaming and recording audio quality, reducing noise artifacts and stabilizing overall voice volume. It also improves all the rich details and boost bass effect of in-game sounds and music playback.
One-click virtual-surround function emulates 7.1 channels, even through a stereo (2.0-channel) headset. It offers five more superb audio controls, including Reverb, Bass Boost, Equalizer, Voice Clarity and Smart EQ — ensuring that everything you hear sounds just amazing.
Perfect Voice reduces noise during in-game chat so every teammate is heard, and no command is missed.
5-Way Optimization at your disposal it takes just one click to tune complex settings — for instant, highly-controllable performance boosts! Our exclusive technology dynamically optimizes essential aspects of your system based on real-time use, so you get superb CPU performance, everyday energy savings, ultra-stable digital power, cool and quiet fans, and even networking and audio settings that are tailored for the apps that you are using. In short, 5-Way Optimization ensures that your PC is perfect for gaming, entertainment, productivity or just about anything else!
Unleash your PC's full performance with the ASUS AI Suite 3 utility! The TurboV Processing Unit (TPU) offers precise voltage control and advanced monitoring for the CPU and the graphics card. This gives you the freedom to adjust CPU frequencies and ratios for optimized performance and the ability to unlock the potential from your graphics card*.
With the Energy Processing Unit (EPU) you'll enjoy real-time, system-wide power savings. EPU detects and adjusts power consumption according to the PC's needs — automatically. It can also reduce CPU wattage to a set level and deliver even more savings with Away Mode. This creates an extreme energy-saving scenario by shutting down unused extra I/O controllers and reduces the graphics cards' power level while you're away, so the PC consumes only the energy it needs — and not a drop more!
Advanced fan and water-pump controls for ultimate cooling and quietness with onboard thermal sensors and hardware-level 4-pin PWM/3-pin DC mode detection, Fan Xpert 3 makes sure every fan achieves the best balance of cooling performance and low noise!
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Power control is one of the most essential motherboard designs. Intelligent CPU-power-draw detection with ASUS DIGI+ Power Control is an innovative, industry-leading technology that fully complies with Intel® IMVP8 specifications, increasing overclocking potential, enhancing system stability, and improving power efficiency with superior flexibility and accurate control.
Whether you're a hardcore gamer or a business professional, you'll feel the benefit of the ASUS-exclusive Turbo App every day. Its intuitive tuning panel boosts a range of hardware, CPU-overclocking, fan-tuning, network data prioritization and audio optimization settings — all with automated ease. And now Turbo App is even more powerful than before, giving you the ability to automatically apply profiles previously set in Sonic Studio II and KeyBot II, so setup couldn't be simpler!
A dedicated base-clock (BCLK) generator designed for 6th-generation Intel® processors that allows overclocked base clock frequencies up to 400MHz*. This custom solution works in tandem with the ASUS Turbo Processor Unit (TPU), to enhance voltage and base-clock overclocking control — granting an exciting new way to boost performance to extreme heights.
* PRO Clock range up to 650 MHz is available, BCLK overclocking range may vary according to CPU capabilities
ASUS 2nd generation T-Topology allows DDR4 memory overclocking to reach new heights: over DDR4-3733 MHz with all memory slots populated. Featuring a customized trace layout for reduced crosstalk and coupling noise, ASUS 2nd generation T-Topology ensures time-aligned signal transfer for improved memory stability and compatibility.
The smoothest, slickest mouse-controlled graphical BIOS has been improved to make it even more appealing. Whether you're a PC novice or a seasoned overclocker, the EZ and Advanced Modes help you find your way, quickly and easily.
Flash the latest BIOS via the internet, and from within the BIOS.
Check up your storages devices' Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) logs to gauge reliability, and even determine if they're about to fail.
Select your hardware and apply different scenarios to tune system performance, or streamline your RAID configuration for faster data retrieval and backups!
Quickly find tuning options and add preferred tools to the list.
Fine-tune individual fans simply by dragging a curve with the mouse
Improve your DRAM performance with a click
View SATA port details for easy device recognition
Use mouse controls to change the time and date
Automatically detect selected ASUS graphics cards to view detailed information
Restore your SSDs to factory-fresh condition
Track the latest changes and save preferred profiles onto a USB drive
Rename SATA ports for easy identification
Refresh your BIOS in a flash, even when the system is off
Refresh your BIOS in a flash, even when the system is off
ROG's revered digital power controller now delivers even-finer power, with Texas Instruments NexFET™ MOSFETs, MicroFine alloy chokes, Digi+ PWM controller and 10K black metallic capacitors — ensuring Extreme Engine Digi+ always delivers the smoothest core voltages!
ROG's uniquely-intelligent technology efficiently caches the critical files on a particular storage device, so that your favorite games and apps launch at breakneck speeds—getting to work the moment it's activated. RAMCache turns milliseconds into microseconds to boost game-load times to stratospheric levels, and minimizes risk of data loss!
ROG features the very latest Intel® Ethernet (I219-V) for faster, smoother gaming — always. Intel's LAN has the serious double advantage of reducing CPU overhead and offering exceptionally high TCP and UDP throughput, so there's more power for your game and your gameplay.
Signal-coupling technology and premium surface-mounted components ensure a more reliable connection and better throughput. Additionally, electrostatically-guarded and surge-protected components (ESD Guards) allow for 1.9x-greater tolerance to static electricity and 2.5x-greater protection (up to 15kV) against surges!
Exclusive GameFirst III prioritizes 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. Choose from Optimization, Game, Media Streaming or File Sharing presets and watch your network fly!
CPU installation tool
1 layer
protection from socket-pin damage
TrueVolt USB
2 dedicated
USB power supplies rock-steady 5V to all USB ports, minimizing power fluctuations for minimal data loss
Q-connector
1 piece
sorts all front-panel cables
Q-Slot
1 clip
to swap or secure your graphics card
Q-DIMM
1 sided
clips for super-simple, super-secure handling of memory modules
DRAM Over-current Protection
1 additional
resettable fuse protects connection ports and DRAM against overcurrent and short-circuit damage
Backplates
2 backplates
to provide additional cooling, protection and reinforcement
ESD Guards
2x greater
electrostatic protection than standard. ESD Guards cover the PS2, USB, audio and LAN ports
Stainless Steel Back I/O
3x longer
lifespan than ordinary panels
Black nickel-coated Q-Shield
0 pain!
Protect your hands form nicks and cuts
Customize your own favorite LED effect to cast a stunning multi-color glow across your build, change shades to indicate CPU temperature, or pulsate in time to the beat of your favorite tunes.
Try six control schemes
StaticAlways on
BreathingFades in & out
Music effectPulses to the beat of
your music
Color cycleFades between the
colors of the rainbow
StrobingFlashes on & off
CPU temperature Changes color
with CPU load
Customize your own favorite LED effect to cast a stunning multi-color glow across your build, change shades to indicate CPU temperature, or pulsate in time to the beat of your favorite tunes.
Try six control schemes
StaticAlways on
BreathingFades in & out
StrobingFlashes on & off
Color cycleFades between the
colors of the rainbow
Music effectPulses to the beat of
your music
CPU temperature Changes color
with CPU load
The clever unobtrusive overlay that keeps you in the game, so you can browse, email, IM, stream or record while you play, and all dressed up in color-matched ROG skins to show you're part of an elite pack — soon to be available for download on Overwolf's app store!
Free keyboard upgrade from an exclusive microprocessor and intuitive user interface. Record macros directly from the keyboard, switch profiles in moments, enable special functions with hotkey from F1-F10, start and even boost your PC from shutdown (S5 mode)!
You can even use KeyBot II to boost your PC into a specific mode with two-second press
ROG cable stickers
15 labels
for your cables
ROG fan stickers
3 badges
of honor for your fans
SATA cable
6 cables
for greater storage
Door hanger
0 disturbance
while gaming
One-stop control panel
Shows your important system information with pride
Dynamic timing monitoring, DRAM efficiency gauge
Boost your favorite applications up to 20X faster than SSD with the junction function
A stealthy overlay that maps battlefield sounds so you can locate opponents and teammates at a glance
The best protection from viruses and spyware
The leading tool for optical and virtual discs
Accelerate your PC by eliminating clogs with simple click
Play your favorite Steam games now and forever
OG's sights are locked on future revolutions and relationships
One-stop control panel
Shows your important system information with pride
Dynamic timing monitoring, DRAM efficiency gauge
Boost your favorite applications up to 20X faster than SSD with the junction function
A stealthy overlay that maps battlefield sounds so you can locate opponents and teammates at a glance
The best protection from viruses and spyware
The leading tool for optical and virtual discs
Accelerate your PC by eliminating clogs with simple click
Play your favorite Steam games now and forever
OG's sights are locked on future revolutions and relationships
Ready for 6th-generation Intel® LGA1151 Core™ i7/Core™ i5/Core™ i3/Pentium®/Celeron® processors
This motherboard supports 6th-generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® processors in the LGA1151 package, with graphics, memory and PCI Express controllers integrated to support onboard graphics output with dedicated chipsets, two-channel (4-DIMM) DDR4 memory and 16 PCI Express 3.0/2.0 lanes for great graphics performance.
Intel® Z170 Express Chipset
Intel® Z170 Express is a single-chipset design that supports 6th-generation Intel® LGA1151 Core™ i7/Core™ i5/Core™ i3/Pentium®/Celeron® processors. It provides improved performance by utilizing serial point-to-point links, allowing increased bandwidth and stability. Additionally, Z170 provides a maximum ten USB 3.0 ports, six SATA 6Gbit/s ports, 32Gbit/s M.2 and PCIe 3.0 lane speed support for faster data retrieval. Intel® Z170 Express also supports integrated-graphics (iGPU) functions, so you'll enjoy the very latest Intel integrated graphics performance.
