Super Alloy Power Design |
Since quite some time ASRock has been
equipping its boards with digital power
designs. This time the company is rather proud, that they're using their so called "Super Alloy" chokes, which help reducing operating temperature and therefore increase lifespan. |
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ASRock APP Shop |
ASRock has made their own small App Shop. Users can download applications to optimize their system to individual needs. |
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M.2 / NVMe Support |
Featuring three M.2 slot this board can be equipped with SSDs in M.2 format. All slots support up to 32 Gbps bandwidth and if you wish to you can also plug in NVMe adapters. Unfortunately there are no such adapters in the delivery. |
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ASRock Cloud |
For it's cloud storage service ASRock partnered up with Kloudian, offering customers a free three year subscription to the service. ASRock Cloud helps you synchronizing data you have on your smartphone as well as PC. |
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Purity Sound 3 |
ASRocks Purity 3 audio solution is based on a Realtek ALC1150 audio codec, which features 115dB SNR. Other than that there is EMI shielding for the main chip as well as onboard insulation. To improve signal quality there are excellent Nichicon capacitors. |
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SATA Express Connector
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SATA Express is a port for storage devices. It combines two SATA connectors and bundles them. Each SATA Express port has been wired using two PCI Express Gen2 lanes offering a total of 10 Gbps bandwidth. Compared to SATA-III with 6 Gbps bandwidth this is quite an improvement. |
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Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 Preview 