Asrock Z87 Professional

Like Gigabyte, Asrock has likewise been working hard on their Intel viii series motherboards and today we are able to show off quite a bit of that hard work. Asrock offered us a massive range of Z87 motherboards to choose from, besides as some H87 boards.

The Z87 Professional first caught our eye as it includes a huge amount of special features, such every bit dual-stack MOSFETs, multi filter caps, hi-density power connector, 15u gilded finger expansion slots, creative sound, 2oz copper PCB and much more than.

The board itself also looks very impressive, featuring a blackness PCB with blackness and red connectors. This is a Fatal1ty series board, though Asrock don't throw that in your face too much and spoil the design.

Similar the Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H the Asrock Z87 Professional as well uses the Intel Z87 chipset and therefore many features practice come equally standard. However at that place are a number of hardware and software features that have been added.

Features such as dwelling house cloud, which allows the user to ability on and off their PC/monitor and have control of it from anywhere in the world remotely. HDMI-In is another interesting feature which allows the user to connect two different devices into a single brandish and toggle between them.

XSplit is a desktop awarding that allows multimedia broadcasting, alive-streaming and recording a lot easier, this characteristic is however a paid service though Asrock are offering 3 months gratis to attempt it out.

On the hardware side of things the Z87 Professional features a pair of Intel Gigabit LAN controllers which includes the I217-5 and the I2211-AT. The I217-V supports Intel Remote Wake Applied science while they both back up Wake-On-LAN, Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az, PXE and Teaming.

The standard six SATA 6Gb/s ports provided by the Z87 chipset have been expanded to a total of ten ports thank you to the inclusion of the ASMedia ASM1061 controller. This controller provides four extra SATA 6Gb/s ports suppoting NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions. The fourth port connected to this controller is shared with a single eSATA port found on the I/O panel.

Asrock has also expanded the USB iii.0 support to include an additional two ports using an ASMedia hub. This means there are a total of eight USB 3.0 ports along with eight USB 2.0 ports.

For gamers the seven.ane channel Hd sound back up from the Creative Audio Core3D solution is no doubt going to be a highlight. This quad-core sound and voice processor supports SBX Pro Studio, CrystalVoice, Scout Mode and EAX1.0 to EAX5.0. On top of that in that location is also a PHA (Premium Headset Amplifier) which will improve headphone quality.

The lath features three PCIe x16 slots, though merely the primary uses total x16 bandwidth. Different the Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H the Asrock Z87 Professional simply uses x8/x8 bandwidth when using two graphics cards opposed to x16/x8. However the Z87 Professional does support Quad Crossfire and 3-style CrossfireX, along with Quad SLI and 2-way SLI. Forth with the three PCIe x16 slots at that place is a single PCIe x1 slot and two PCI slots.

Around the back we take iv USB 2.0 ports, four USB 3.0 ports, 5 audio jacks and an optical port forth with a PS/2 port, eSATA port, CMOS reset switch, dual LAN ports and two HDMI ports.