Asus Z170-E Motherboard - Z170-E

The Z170-E Motherboard from ASUS is designed to fit in cases that support the ATX form factor. The 12.0 x 9.2" Z170-E supports 6th Generation (Skylake) Intel Core i7, i5, i3, Pentium, and Celeron processors, the LGA 1151 socket, as well as the Intel Z170 chipset. This motherboard supports Windows 10 (64-bit), 8.1 (64-bit), and 7 (64 and 32-bit). The ATX form factor of the Z170-E has 4 x DIMM slots that can support up to 64GB of non-ECC unbuffered DDR4 RAM, as well as dual channel memory architecture. The supported memory speeds are DDR4 3466 (O.C.), 3400 (O.C.), 3333 (O.C.), 3200 (O.C.), 3000 (O.C.), 2800 (O.C.), 2666 (O.C.), 2400 (O.C.), and 2133 MHz memory modules. All of the O.C. speeds are only available through memory overclocking, with 2133 MHz being the native supported speed. The Z170-E has a total of 6 x SATA III 6 Gb/s ports, 1 x M.2 x4 Socket 3, and 1 x SATA Express port that is compatible with 2 x SATA III 6 Gb/s ports. It also has 2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 slots (x16 or dual x8), 1 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 slot (x2 mode), 3 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x1 slots, 1 x USB 3.1/3.0/2.0 port, 6 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports, 6 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports, and 1 x PS/2 port. Using the Realtek ALC887 codec with Crystal Sound 2, it can support 8-channel HD audio.