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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. Included 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 many 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 3466 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. The board has nice dark capacitors, we can see the diagnostic LED here (displays status/error codes and in the OS the package temperature of the processor). 

Overall a terrific design really, aesthetically pleasing to the eyes as well. The PCH (Intel Z170 chipset) chip is covered by a nice heatsink, shield almost, once activated a red LED will create an aura of light from that heat-sink. It looks pretty nice, i'll show you that on a photo on the next page.

The board also has buttons for reset / power and a number of micro-switches for the standard features like memOK!, ClearCMOS, EPU and easy XMP. There's a lot of lighting going on, let me show you that on the next page.