Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Motherboard

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Designed and engineered in co-operation with GIGABYTE®, this monoblock uses award winning EK-Supremacy EVO cooling engine to ensure best possible CPU cooling. This water block directly cools Intel LGA-1151 socket type CPU and power regulation (MOSFET) module as water flows directly over all critical areas. The company learnt a few things from its Z97 Pro Gamer that HEXUS reviewed earlier this year, with the most obvious being the branding Gamer was less familiar to consumers than Gaming. USB Type-C (USB-C) delivers future device compatibility and high-speed USB connectivity of 5Gbit/s from a slim, reversible port. Unlike other solution on the market, this is a true one-piece, sturdy and reliable liquid cooling product which requires only two connector fittings for proper operation.These professional audio capacitors deliver the highest quality sound resolution and sound expansion to create the most realistic sound effects for professional gamers. The Z170 Pro Gaming has had a refresh with the new, 2016 AURA upgrade that bringsRGB lighting atop a new black-white themed motherboard. Intel’s LAN has the serious double advantage of reducing CPU overhead and offering exceptionally high TCP and UDP throughput. In layman's terms, the Z170 Pro Gaming motherboard is similar to Republic of Gamer motherboards of a few generations ago.

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The USB-C connector is an ideal match for the latest smartphones or external SSD storage, with the benefit of USB 3. Four DIMM slots can support up to 64GB of DDR4 memory up to 3,466MHz and beyond, depending on whether you plump for premium DIMMs, although remember you'll generally get a bit more OC leg-room from the Maximus VIII series motherboards. The 8-phase CPU VRM has been buffed up to a 10-phase implementation, something that is welcomed given that Skylake overclocks in a different way to Haswell.GIGABYTE™ Cloud Station™ is composed of several GIGABYTE unique apps that allow your smart phones/tablet devices to communicate, share resources, and control your desktop PC via a wireless connection. According to the documentation provided by ASUS, the Z170 Pro Gaming is compatible with Windows 11 "under current testing", but the processors that are supported do not actually meet the system requirements for Windows 11.