ASROCK FATAL1TY Z270 GAMING K6 LGA1151 INTEL Z270 MOTHERBOARD

For a $150 motherboard sporting Intel’s flagship chipset, the Z270 Extreme4 seems quite feature packed and it’s certainly no eye-sore either. The black PCB has been branded with a large white X which obviously points to this being an ‘extreme’ series motherboard. The design is very cool and the X ties in with the chipset heatsink and I/O cover. Of course none of this is really important as it doesn’t improve performance, stability or reliability, it just looks cool and most PC enthusiasts will appreciate that.

Moving past the Extreme4’s makeup, we find a rather substantial feature set. The sound hardware alone is comprised of Nichicon fine gold series audio caps, a 120dB SNR DAC with differential amplifier, a TI NE5532 headset amplifier for front panel audio supporting up to 600 Ohm headsets, isolated PCB shielding, individual PCB layers for the right and left audio channels, 15μ gold audio connectors and support for DTS connect, courtesy of Asrock’s built-in Purity Sound 4 audio solution which takes advantage of the Realtek ALC1220 audio codec.

• ASRock Super Alloy
• Supports 7th and 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron®Processors (Socket 1151)
• Supports DDR4 3866+(OC)
• 3 PCIe 3.0 x 16, 3 PCIe 3.0 x1, 1 M.2 Socket (Key E)
• NVIDIA® Quad SLI™, AMD 3-Way CrossFireX™
• Graphics Output Options: HDMI, DVI-D, D-Sub
• Supports Triple Monitor
• 7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec), Supports Creative SoundBlaster Cinema3
• 8 SATA3, 2 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
• 2 USB 3.1 10Gb/s (1 Type-A + 1 Type-C), 8 USB 3.0 (4 Front, 3 Rear, 1 Fatal1ty Mouse Port)
• ASRock AURA RGB LED