Product Showcase
Product Showcase
- 2 x M.2 Socket 3 connectors
- 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
The audio solution is based on a Realtek ALC 1220 CODEC, ASUS however has upgraded the circuitry and applied their ROG Supreme FX audio suite to it including an ES9023P HD DAC alongside nice headphone connectivity slash quality. You can spot high audio grade fine gold capacitors. Fine gold capacitors are suited for high-grade audio equipment to provide rich sound in the bass and clearer high frequencies. There's little else to say really, the audio solution is fine and is rated at a 110 dB SNR.
Once you zoom in at the motherboard you'll find micro switches, buttons and FAN connectors everywhere. Also you will spot some LED RGB connectors so that you can add LED strips or other components that are LED controlled to the AURA infrastructure to control it.
Just one 8-pin connector to power that processor of yours, but it should be plenty though. The motherboard has (I think I spotted) a 10+2 phase power delivery design for the processor based on digital power controllers. ASUS, as always, follows their stringent component selection.
The VRM area is covered up in some places so the phases are a bit hard to count. 10 here + 2 or 4 for memory really. So did you spot the round buttons in the VRM shielding? Next photo:
Yes indeed, you can mount fittings here and add this EK water-block to your liquid cooling loop. Obviously it is not needed at all as air cooling really is fine with such a big lump of copper sitting on top of it, good stuff though.
