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The Z170 chipset will bring six Intel chipset based SATA 6 Gb/s storage ports to the motherboard. With an added ASMedia controller two more have been added. SATA Express is supported. Interesting to see is a M.2. PCI Express slot, this received an upgrade from 1x PCI Express lane towards x4, giving the port not 10 GB/sec but 32 GB/sec performance. There are plenty USB 3.0 and 3.1 ports available though internal connectors motherboard connectors.

You will get four DIMM slots offer support for dual-channel DDR4 memory up to even 3600 MHz (OC). if you activate the XMP 2.0 profile in the BIOS, your memory will be automatically configured for you at its maximum clock speed and recommended voltage.

You can install a maximum of 64 GB in total. Again, XMP 2.0 must be supported, we'll show you this petite setup running at 2133 and 3200 MHz.

Overall a terrific design really, aesthetically pleasing to the eyes as well. A little busy in the eyes maybe as all capacitors are visible, personally I would have extended the shielding over the audio circuitry. 

To the left you can see a Diagnostic post LED, it will display the status/post code. Once you have booted into Windows it will display the package temperature of your processor. The board also has buttons for reset / power and a number of micro-switches for features like memOK!, EPU and easy XMP.