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ASRock Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming ITX/ac Motherboard Review

Specifications and Features

Features

  • Supports 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors (Socket 1151)
  • Supports DDR4 4333+(OC)
  • 1 PCIe 3.0 x16
  • Graphics Output Options: HDMI, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt™ 3 Type-C
  • 7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
  • Supports Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3
  • 6 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
  • 1 USB Type-C (Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3)
  • 8 USB 3.1 Gen1 (2 Front, 5 Rear, 1 Fatal1ty Mouse Port)
  • Intel® Gigabit LAN
  • Intel® 2T2R Dual Band 802.11ac WiFi + BT v4.2 Module, 1 ASRock WiFi 2.4/5 GHz Antenna
  • Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready

 

 

ROCK-SOLID VRM – Built for 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors

The improved power phase design offers smooth power delivery to the more powerful 8th Generation Intel®Core™ Processors, providing unmatched overclocking capabilities, lower temperature for advanced gamers, and reinforced system stability for taking on all sorts of arduous computing tasks.

Hyper DDR4 – UNBEATABLE MEMORY PERFORMANCE

ASRock Hyper DDR4 technology unlocks the hidden performance of DDR4 memory modules, giving the overall performance a huge boost. Unlike traditional memory signal designs that are easily distorted, Hyper DDR4 uses an optimized trace design and the memory circuitry are ideally isolated, thus providing pure memory signals for compatibility, stability and performance.

Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 Type-C

Experience the world’s fastest connectivity with ASRock’s Intel® Thunderbolt™ ready motherboards. The Daisy-chain feature allows users to connect up to 6 Thunderbolt™ devices with a single wire. The highly desirable reversible USB Type-C interface delivers breathtaking bandwidth and also supports USB PD 2.0 charging up to 12V@3A (36W).

*Please refer to Intel® Thunderbolt™3 technology brief for more detail.

2T2R 802.11ac WiFi – Dual Band (2.4/5 GHz)

No one has time for weak WiFi signals and sluggish internet! That’s why this motherboard comes with an exclusive 2T2R 802.11ac WiFi (2.4G / 5G WiFi) module that supports up to 867Mbps wireless networks and Bluetooth v4.2. Experience up to 289% speed boost compared to your old WiFi!

Ultra M.2 32 Gb/s (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)

The PCIe Gen3 x4 Ultra M.2 interface pushes data transfer speeds up to 32Gb/s. In addition, it also supports SATA3 6Gb/s M.2 modules.

Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3

Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3 is the latest software that is designed with SBX Pro Studio to deliver a holistic audio experience. Whether you’re gaming or watching a movie, Reality 3D technology lets you enable 5.1/7.1 surround sound for an additional layer of transience to your listening experience even with just a pair of headphones or stereo speakers.

Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready

Supports Intel® Optane™ memory technology and Intel® Optane™ storage technology that redefines a new standard of high performance and responsiveness.

PCI-E STEEL SLOTS

The advanced PCI-E Steel Slots packed with solid cover that prevent any signal interference with graphics cards. It also ensures the heavy graphics cards to be well-installed in the PCI-E slots safely.

 

Specifications

  • Gaming Armor
    Power
    – Hi-Density Power Connector
    Memory
    – 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots
    VGA Card
    – 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE1)
    Internet
    – Intel® LAN
    Cooling
    – 8 Layer PCB
    – 4 x 2oz copper
    – Heat Pipe Design
    Audio
    – Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3
  • Unique Feature
    ASRock Super Alloy
    – Premium 60A Power Choke
    – 60A Dr.MOS
    – Nichicon 12K Black Caps (100% Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors)
    – Matte Black PCB
    – High Density Glass Fabric PCB
    Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 (AC Wave 2 + BLE BT4.2)
    ASRock Steel Slots
    ASRock Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
    ASRock Full Spike Protection (for all USB, Audio, LAN Ports)
    ASRock Live Update & APP Shop
  • CPU
    – Supports 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors (Socket 1151)
    – Digi Power design
    – 7 Power Phase design
    – Supports Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology
    – Supports Intel® K-Series unlocked CPUs
    – Supports ASRock BCLK Full-range Overclocking
  • Chipset
    – Intel® Z370
  • Memory
    – Dual Channel DDR4 Memory Technology
    – 2 x DDR4 DIMM Slots
    – Supports DDR4 4333+(OC)* / 4266(OC) / 4133(OC) / 4000(OC) / 3866(OC) / 3800(OC) / 3733(OC) / 3600(OC) / 3200(OC) / 2933(OC) / 2800(OC) / 2666 / 2400 / 2133 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
    – Supports ECC UDIMM memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)
    – Max. capacity of system memory: 32GB**
    – Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 2.0
    – 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots

    *8th Gen Intel® CPU supports DDR4 up to 2666.
    Please refer to Memory Support List on ASRock’s website for more information.**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
    – 128Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support
    – ACPI 6.0 Compliant wake up events
    – SMBIOS 2.7 Support
    – CPU, DRAM, PCH 1.0V, VCCIO, VCCST, VCCSA, VCCPLL Voltage Multi-adjustment
  • Graphics
    – Supports Intel® UHD 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® UHD Graphics
    – DirectX 12
    – HWA Encode/Decode: VP9 8-bit, VP9 10- bit (Encode only), VP8, HEVC (MPEG-H Part2, h.265), AVC (MPEG4, h.264), MPEG2-Part2 (h.262), JPEG/MJPEG,VC-1
    – Max. shared memory 1024MB**
    – Three graphics output options: HDMI, DisplayPort 1.2 and Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3
    – Supports Triple Monitor
    – Supports HDMI with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2160) @ 60Hz
    – Supports DisplayPort 1.2 with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2304) @ 60Hz
    – Supports Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2304) @ 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, DisplayPort 1.2 and Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3
    – Supports 4K Ultra HD (UHD) playback with HDMI, DisplayPort 1.2 and Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3

    *Intel® UHD Graphics Built-in Visuals and the VGA outputs can be supported only with processors which are GPU integrated.

    **The size of maximum shared memory may vary from different operating systems.

  • Audio
    – 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
    – Premium Blu-ray Audio support
    – Supports Surge Protection
    – Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps
    – 120dB SNR DAC with Differential Amplifier
    – NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier for Front Panel Audio Connector (Supports up to 600 Ohm headsets)
    – Pure Power-In
    – Direct Drive Technology
    – PCB Isolate Shielding
    – Impedance Sensing on Front Out port
    – Individual PCB Layers for R/L Audio Channel
    – 15μ Gold Audio Connector
    – Supports Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3
  • LAN
    – Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
    – Giga PHY Intel® I219V
    – Supports Wake-On-LAN
    – Supports Lightning/ESD Protection
    – Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az
    – Supports PXE
  • Wireless LAN
    – Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
    – Supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
    – Supports Dual-Band (2.4/5 GHz with 80Mhz bandwidth and MU-MIMO)
    – Supports high speed wireless connections up to 867Mbps
    – 2 antennas to support 2 (Transmit) x 2 (Receive) diversity technology
    – Supports Bluetooth 4.2 / 3.0 + High speed class II
  • Slots
    – 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slot (PCIE1: x16 mode)*
    – 1 x Vertical M.2 Socket (Key E) with the bundled WiFi-802.11ac module (on the rear I/O)
    – 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE1)

    *Supports PCIe riser cards to extend one x16 slot to two x8 slots
    Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
  • Storage
    – 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 15), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug*
    – 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket, supports M Key type 2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)**

    *If M2_1 is occupied by a SATA-type M.2 device, SATA3_0 will be disabled.

    **Supports Intel® Optane™ Technology
    Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks

  • Connector
    – 1 x Chassis Intrusion Header
    – 1 x RGB LED Header*
    – 1 x CPU Fan Connector (4-pin)**
    – 1 x CPU Optional/Water Pump Fan Connector (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)***
    – 1 x Chassis Fan Connector (4-pin)
    – 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector
    – 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
    – 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector (15μ Gold Audio Connector)
    – 1 x USB 2.0 Header (Supports 2 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection)
    – 1 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Header (Supports 2 USB 3.1 Gen1 ports) (Supports ESD Protection)

    *Supports in total up to 12V/3A, 36W LED Strip

    **The CPU Fan Connector supports the CPU fan of maximum 1A (12W) fan power.

    ***The CPU Optional/Water Pump Fan supports the water cooler fan of maximum 1.5A (18W) fan power.

    ****CPU_OPT/W_PUMP can auto detect if 3-pin or 4-pin fan is in use.

  • Rear Panel I/O
    – 2 x Antenna Ports
    – 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port
    – 1 x HDMI Port
    – 1 x DisplayPort 1.2
    – 1 x Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 (Compatible with USB 3.1 Gen2 and USB-C Display)*
    – 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
    – 6 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Ports (Supports ESD Protection)* 1 x Fatal1ty Mouse Port (USB 3.1 Gen1) is included
    – 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
    – 1 x Clear CMOS Button
    – HD Audio Jacks: Side Speaker / Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone

    *Supports USB PD 2.0 up to 12V@3A (36W) charging
  • Software and UEFI
    Software
    – ASRock F-Stream
    – ASRock RGB LED
    – ASRock Key Master
    – ASRock XFast LAN
    UEFI
    – ASRock EZ Mode
    – ASRock Full HD UEFI
    – ASRock My Favorites in UEFI
    – ASRock Instant Flash
    – ASRock Internet Flash
    – ASRock Crashless BIOS
    – ASRock Easy RAID Installer

    *These utilities can be downloaded from ASRock Live Update & APP Shop.
  • Support CD
    – Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version), Google Chrome Browser and Toolbar
  • Accessories
    – Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield
    – 2 x SATA Data Cables
    – 1 x ASRock WiFi 2.4/5 GHz Antenna
    – 1 x Screw for M.2 Socket
  • Hardware Monitor
    – Temperature Sensing: CPU, CPU Optional/Water Pump, Chassis Fans
    – Fan Tachometer: CPU, CPU Optional/Water Pump, Chassis Fans
    – Quiet Fan (Auto adjust chassis fan speed by CPU temperature): CPU, CPU Optional/Water Pump, Chassis Fans
    – Fan Multi-Speed Control: CPU, CPU Optional/Water Pump, Chassis Fans
    – CASE OPEN detection
    – Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore, DRAM, PCH 1.0V, VCCIO, VCCSA, VCCST
  • Form Factor
    – Mini-ITX Form Factor: 6.7-in x 6.7-in, 17.0 cm x 17.0 cm
    – 8 Layer PCB
    – 4 x 2oz copper

 

More information can be found on ASRock’s website.

 

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