ASRock Z270 Killer SLI Motherboard Review

Features

• ASRock Super Alloy
• Supports 7^th and 6^th Generation Intel^® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium^®/Celeron^® Processors (Socket 1151)
• Supports DDR4 3733+(OC)
• 2 PCIe 3.0 x16, 4 PCIe 3.0 x1
• NVIDIA^® Quad SLI™, AMD Quad CrossFireX™
• Graphics Output Options: HDMI, DVI-D
• 7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec), Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps
• 6 SATA3, 2 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
• 8 USB 3.0 (5 Rear, 1 Type-C, 2 Front)
• Intel^® Gigabit LAN
• ASRock AURA RGB LED

The Intel® Z270 chipset and 7th Gen Intel® Core™ processors will give you the ultimate edge against your opponents. Whether it is responsiveness, expandability or performance, the Intel® Z270 chipset and 7th Gen Intel® Core™ processors will arm you with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0¹ and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology¹ to get you the win. Fuel your battle with the Intel® Z270 chipset and gain the power and performance to reach new records.

Specifications

• ASRock Super Alloy
  – Premium 40A Power Choke
  – Nichicon 12K Black Caps (100% Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors)
  – I/O Armor
  – Sapphire Black PCB
  – High Density Glass Fabric PCB
  ASRock Intel^® 4-Layer Memory POOL (Planes on Outer Layers) Technology
  ASRock Steel Slots
  ASRock Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
  ASRock Full Spike Protection
  ASRock Live Update & APP Shop

CPU Full List Here

• Supports 7^th and 6^th Generation Intel^® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium^®/Celeron^® Processors (Socket 1151)
• Digi Power design
• 8 Power Phase design
• Supports Intel^® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology
• Supports Intel^® K-Series unlocked CPUs
• Supports ASRock BCLK Full-range Overclocking

Chipset

• Intel^® Z270

Memory Full List Here

• Memory
• Dual Channel DDR4 Memory Technology
• 4 x DDR4 DIMM Slots
• Supports DDR4 3733+(OC)*/3600(OC)/3200(OC)/2933(OC)/2800(OC)/2400**/2133 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
• Supports ECC UDIMM memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)
• Max. capacity of system memory: 64GB***
• Supports Intel^® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 2.
• 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots

  *Please refer to Memory Support List on ASRock’s website for more information.

  **7th Gen Intel^® CPU supports DDR4 up to 2400; 6^th Gen Intel^® CPU supports DDR4 up to 2133.

  ***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, GT_CPU, DRAM, VPP, PCH 1.0V, VCCIO, VCCST, VCCSA, VCCPLL 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
• Gen9 LP, DX11.3, DX12
• HWAEncode/Decode: VP8, HEVC 8b, VP9, HEVC 10b (For 7^th Gen Intel^® CPU)
• HWA Encode/Decode: VP8, HEVC 8b; GPU/SWEncode/Decode: VP9, HEVC 10b (For 6^th Gen Intel^® CPU)
• Max. shared memory 1024MB**
• Dual graphics output: Support DVI-D and HDMI ports by independent display controllers
• Supports HDMI with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2160) @ 24Hz / (3840×2160) @ 30Hz
• Supports DVI-D with max. resolution up to 1920×1200 @ 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 DVI-D and HDMI Ports
• Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) playback with DVI-D and HDMI Ports

• 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec)
• Premium Blu-ray Audio support
• Supports Surge Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
• Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps

• Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
• Giga PHY Intel^® I219V
• Supports Wake-On-LAN
• Supports Lightning/ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
• Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az
• Supports PXE

• 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots (PCIE2/PCIE4: single at x16 (PCIE2); dual at x8 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE4))*
• 4 x PCI Express 3.0 x1 Slots (Flexible PCIe)
• Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
• Supports NVIDIA^® Quad SLI™ and SLI™
• 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2)

• 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel^®Rapid Storage Technology 15 and Intel^® Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug*
• 2 x Ultra M.2 Sockets, support type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)**

• 1 x COM Port Header
• 1 x TPM Header
• 1 x Chassis Intrusion Header
• 1 x Power LED and Speaker Header
• 1 x AURA RGB LED Header*
• 1 x CPU Fan Connector (4-pin)**
• 2 x Chassis Fan Connectors (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)
• 1 x Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fan Connector (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)***
• 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector
• 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector
• 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector
• 1 x Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector (5-pin)
• 1 x Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector (10-pin)****
• 3 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 5 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
• 1 x USB 3.0 Header (Supports 2 USB 3.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))

Rear Panel I/O

• 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port
• 1 x DVI-D Port
• 1 x HDMI Port
• 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
• 5 x USB 3.0 Type-A Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
• 1 x USB 3.0 Type-C Port (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
• 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
• HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone

• ASRock A-Tuning
• ASRock AURA RGB LED
• ASRock APP Charger
• ASRock XFast LAN*

• ASRock EZ Mode
• ASRock Full HD UEFI
• ASRock My Favorites in UEFI
• ASRock Instant Flash
• ASRock Internet Flash
• ASRock Crashless BIOS
• ASRock UEFI System Browser
• ASRock UEFI Tech Service
• ASRock Easy RAID Installer

• Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield
• 2 x SATA Data Cables
• 1 x ASRock SLI_HB_Bridge_2S Card
• 2 x Screws for M.2 Sockets

• Temperature Sensing: CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
• Fan Tachometer: CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
• Quiet Fan (Auto adjust chassis fan speed by CPU temperature): CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
• Fan Multi-Speed Control: CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
• CASE OPEN detection
• Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore, DRAM, VPP, PCH 1.0V, VCCIO, VCCSA, VCCST

• ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.8-in, 30.5 cm x 22.4 cm

• Microsoft^® Windows^® 10 64-bit (For 7^th Gen Intel^® CPU)
• Microsoft^® Windows^® 10 64-bit / 8.1 64-bit / 7 32-bit / 7 64-bit (For 6^th Gen Intel^® CPU)*

• FCC, CE, WHQL
• ErP/EuP ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required)

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