• ATX
• ASRock Super Alloy
• Supports 7th and 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium® / Celeron® Processors (Socket 1151)
• *8th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors are supported with Intel® B300 Series chipset motherboards only
• Supports DDR4 2400 (Intel® 7th Gen CPUs) / 2133 (Intel® 6th Gen CPUs)
• 2 PCIe 3.0 x16, 4 PCIe 3.0 x1, 1 M.2(Key E)
• AMD Quad CrossFireX™
• Graphics Output Options: HDMI, DVI-D, D-Sub
• Supports Triple Monitor
• 7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec), Supports Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3
• 6 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3), 1 M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x2 & SATA3)
• 6 USB 3.1 Gen1 (1 Type-C, 2 Front, 3 Rear)
• Intel® Gigabit LAN
• ASRock RGB LED
• Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready

Specifications

• Gaming Armor
  Power
  – Hi-Density Power Connectors (24 pin and 8 pin)
  Memory
  – 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots
  VGA Card
  – 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2)
  Internet
  – Intel^® LAN
  Cooling
  – XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink
  Audio
  – Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3
• Unique Feature
  ASRock Super Alloy
  – XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink
  – Premium 40A Power Choke
  – Nichicon 12K Black Caps (100% Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors)
  – I/O Armor
  – Matte Black PCB
  – High Density Glass Fabric PCB
  ASRock Intel^® 4-Layer Memory POOL (Planes on Outer Layers) Technology
  ASRock Steel Slots
  ASRock Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
  ASRock Full Spike Protection
  ASRock Live Update & APP Shop
• CPU
  – Supports 7^th and 6^th Generation Intel^® Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium^® / Celeron^® Processors (Socket 1151)
  – Digi Power design
  – 8 Power Phase design
  – Supports Intel^® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology
• Chipset
  – Intel^® B250
• Memory
  – Dual Channel DDR4 Memory Technology
  – 4 x DDR4 DIMM Slots
  – Supports DDR4 2400/2133 non-ECC, un-buffered memory*
  – Supports ECC UDIMM memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)
  – Max. capacity of system memory: 64GB**
  – Supports Intel^® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 2.0
  – 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots
  
  

  *7th Gen Intel^® CPU supports DDR4 up to 2400; 6^th Gen Intel^® CPU supports DDR4 up to 2133.
  
  **Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows^® 32-bit OS. For Windows^® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation.
• BIOS
  – 128Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support
  – ACPI 6.0 Compliant wake up events
  – SMBIOS 2.7 Support
  – CPU, GT_CPU, DRAM, VPPM, PCH 1.0V, VCCIO, VCCST, VCCSA, VCCPLL Voltage Multi-adjustment
• Graphics
  – Supports Intel^® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals : Intel^® Quick Sync Video with AVC, MVC (S3D) and MPEG-2 Full HW Encode1, Intel^® InTru™ 3D, Intel^® Clear Video HD Technology, Intel^® Insider™, Intel^® HD Graphics
  – Gen9 LP, DX11.3, DX12
  – HWA Encode/Decode: VP8, HEVC 8b, VP9, HEVC 10b (For 7^th Gen Intel^® CPU)
  – HWA Encode/Decode: VP8, HEVC 8b; GPU/SW Encode/Decode: VP9, HEVC 10b (For 6^th Gen Intel^® CPU)
  – Max. shared memory 1024MB**
  – Three graphics output options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI
  – Supports Triple Monitor
  – Supports HDMI with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2160) @ 24Hz / (3840×2160) @ 30Hz
  – Supports DVI-D with max. resolution up to 1920×1200 @ 60Hz
  – Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 1920×1200 @ 60Hz
  – Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI Port (Compliant HDMI monitor is required)
  – Supports HDCP with DVI-D and HDMI Ports
  – Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) playback with DVI-D and HDMI Ports
  
  

  *Intel^® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals and the VGA outputs can be supported only with processors which are GPU integrated.
  
  **The size of maximum shared memory may vary from different operating systems.
  
  ***Due to chipset limitation, the Blu-ray playback of Intel^® HD Graphics is only supported under Windows^® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit.
  
  ****Intel^® InTru™ 3D is only supported under Windows^® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit.
• Audio
  – 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
  – Premium Blu-ray Audio support
  – Supports Surge Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
  – Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps
  – 120dB SNR DAC with Differential Amplifier
  – TI^® NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier for Front Panel Audio Connector (Supports up to 600 Ohm headsets)
  – Pure Power-In
  – Direct Drive Technology
  – PCB Isolate Shielding
  – Impedance Sensing on Front Out port
  – Individual PCB Layers for R/L Audio Channel
  – AURA RGB LED
  – Gold Audio Jacks
  – 15μ Gold Audio Connector
  – Supports Creative Sound Blaster™ Cinema 3
• LAN
  – Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
  – Giga PHY Intel^® I219V
  – Supports Wake-On-LAN
  – Supports Lightning/ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
  – Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az
  – Supports PXE
• Slots
  – 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots (PCIE2: x16 mode; PCIE4: x4 mode)*
  – 4 x PCI Express 3.0 x1 Slots (Flexible PCIe)*
  – Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
  – 1 x M.2 Socket (Key E), supports type 2230 WiFi/BT module**
  – 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2)
  
  

  *Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
  If PCIE5 or PCIE6 is occupied, PCIE4 will run at x2 mode.
  
  **If M2_3 is occupied, PCIE3 will be disabled.
• Storage
  – 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug*
  – 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket (M2_1), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)**
  – 1 x M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x2 (16 Gb/s)**
  
  

  *If M2_1 is occupied by a SATA-type M.2 device, SATA_5 will be disabled.
  If M2_2 is occupied by a SATA-type M.2 device, SATA_0 will be disabled.
  
  **Supports ASRock U.2 Kit
  Supports Intel^® Optane™ Technology (M2_1 only)
  Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
• Connector
  – 1 x COM Port Header
  – 1 x TPM Header
  – 1 x Chassis Intrusion Header
  – 1 x Power LED and Speaker Header
  – 1 x AURA RGB LED Header*
  – 1 x CPU Fan Connector (4-pin)**
  – 2 x Chassis Fan Connectors (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)
  – 1 x Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fan Connector (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)***
  – 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
  – 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
  – 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector (15μ Gold Audio Connector)
  – 1 x Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector (5-pin)
  – 1 x Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector (10-pin)****
  – 3 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 5 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  – 1 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Header (Supports 2 USB 3.1 Gen1 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  
  

  *Supports up to 12V/3A, 36W LED Strip.
  
  **The CPU Fan Connector supports the CPU fan of maximum 1A (12W) fan power.
  
  ***The Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fan supports the water cooler fan of maximum 1.5A (18W) fan power.
  CHA_FAN2 can auto detect if 3-pin or 4-pin fan is in use.
  
  ****Only one Thunderbolt™ AIC Card is supported.
• Rear Panel I/O
  – 2 x Antenna Ports
  – 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port
  – 1 x D-Sub Port
  – 1 x DVI-D Port
  – 1 x HDMI Port
  – 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
  – 1 x USB 2.0 Port (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  – 1 x Fatal1ty Mouse Port (USB 2.0) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  – 3 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  – 1 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C Port (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
  – 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
  – HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone (Gold Audio Jacks)
• Software and UEFI
  Software
  – ASRock AURA RGB LED
  – ASRock Key Master
  – ASRock APP Charger
  – ASRock XFast LAN
  UEFI
  – ASRock EZ Mode
  – ASRock Full HD UEFI
  – ASRock My Favorites in UEFI
  – ASRock Instant Flash
  – ASRock Internet Flash
  – ASRock Crashless BIOS
  – ASRock UEFI Tech Service
  
  

  *These utilities can be downloaded from ASRock Live Update & APP Shop.
• Support CD
  – Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version), Google Chrome Browser and Toolbar
• Accessories
  – Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield
  – 2 x SATA Data Cables
  – 3 x Screws for M.2 Sockets
• Hardware Monitor
  – Temperature Sensing: CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
  – Fan Tachometer: CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
  – Quiet Fan (Auto adjust chassis fan speed by CPU temperature): CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
  – Fan Multi-Speed Control: CPU, Chassis, Chassis Optional/Water Pump Fans
  – CASE OPEN detection
  – Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore, DRAM, VPPM, PCH 1.0V, VCCSA, VCCST
• Form Factor
  – ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 9.6-in, 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm
• OS
  – Microsoft^® Windows^® 10 64-bit (For 7^th Gen Intel^® CPU)
  – Microsoft^® Windows^® 10 64-bit / 8.1 64-bit / 7 32-bit / 7 64-bit (For 6^th Gen Intel^® CPU)*
  
  

  *To install Windows^® 7 OS, a modified installation disk with xHCI drivers packed into the ISO file is required. Please check our User Manual for more detailed instructions.
  For the updated Windows^® 10 driver, please visit ASRock’s website for details.
• Certifications
  – FCC, CE
  – ErP/EuP ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required)

CPU Support List

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