Connectors and I/O

Totally ASUS equipped the Maximus VII Hero with eight angled SATA ports. All ports offer 6Gbps bandwidth and six out of eight SATA III ports are natively wired to the Z97 PCH. The two additional SATA 6Gbps ports are wired to an ASMedia ASM1061 chip. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons in the top right corner of the board. There is also a debug display. What you don't get with this overclocking board are voltage read-out points. This was another measure to further push the price of this board down.



Totally you'll find six fan header on the Maximus VII Hero which is enough, to provide a well equipped high-end or overclocking-system with fresh air. The fan headers are located around the CPU socket as spread over the motherboard.

Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel ASUS equipped the Maximus VII Hero with one PS2 mouse/keyboard connector, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, two USB 2.0/1.1 ports, one gigabit ethernet port, an HDMI connector, a VGA out, a DVI port and an optical out as well as an analogue audio panel. Furtheremore you'll also find a clear CMOS button.

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