Product Showcase

Let's move onwards to the left side where we stumble into a bunch of SATA connectors. The motherboard features four black right-angle SATA II (3Gb/s) ports which are supplied by the chipset and they support AHCI and RAID 0/1/5/10. Then in red we can see another 4 SATA3 (6G) ports of which two lead from the Intel chipset and the other two to the far left being managed by an ASMedia controller. We'll have a look at the performance of all these controllers later on in our benchmark sessions.

To the right we see a very crowded but functional area. You can see the voltage monitoring points, the power/reset buttons. Then to the far right a diagnostic POST LED with next to is a slow_mode switch (again for LN2 overclocking). The red block en/disables your PCIE slots and then there's a GO button (if the system crashes, this will default the memory yet retain the overclock).

As explained in addition to the regular SATA II ports, colored in red you can see additional SATA 3 (6 GBit) ports, two of these come from Intel, the other two are ASMedia based (these perform slightly worse opposed to the native Intel 6G controllers as we'll show you).

To middle in red we spot a USB 3.0 connector which you can use to connect brackets and frontpanel IO etc. USB 3.0 on this board is managed by three ASMedia USB 3.0 controllers. 4x USB 3.0 for Rear IO and this this connector has four more ASMedia USB 3.0 ports assigned for say a frontpanel IO. The weird looking connector with four pins is a special Subzero Sense connector with dual temperature reading ports for monitoring the CPU and GPU pots simultaneously. You need to purchase a K-Type thermocouple cable to be able to use it, but after that you can read temps from the BIOS/ TurboV Evo app and over the OC key overlay.