ASUS Z170 Deluxe Preview
Published by Marc Büchel on 05.08.15Page:
Conclusion
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| The Z170 Deluxe from ASUS means business. Already at launch day, ASUS has a mature motherboard in its portfolio. Compared to the predecessor the motherboard maker changed the color scheme from black/gold to black/white, which in our opinion is quite a bit more attractive. As usual you get a plethora of features with ASUS's Deluxe motherboard. In this regard it doesn't matter wheter you're looking for a beefed-up audio solution or the possibility to install setup a multi card system. Apart from that we also like it that there are several ways to connect storage media to this board. There are SATA and SATA Express connectors, there is an M.2 slot and through an adapter you can even connect NVMe drives. |
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Design
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| The ASUS Z170 Deluxe'sl layout has been very well thought. Once more practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power- and reset-buttons. There is also a debug display which is very useful in case you should have issues with a component in your system or the board itself. Apart from that also the placement of the PCI-Express x16 slots is very well chosen. There is a total of three full sized PCI Express slots and between the first two PCI Express x16 slots there are two PCIe x1 slots. This means that there is plenty of space for graphics card in multi GPU setups to breathe. Should you want to do that you can go ahead and build a triple-GPU system using this board as a basis. As we already mentioned we also like the flexibility regarding storage connectors. | -
Angled SATA
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- Space around the CPU socket - Placement of PCIe slots - Number of different storage connectors |
| Page 1 - Introduction | Page 4 - Layout |
| Page 2 - Specs and Delivery | Page 5 - Connectors and I/O |
| Page 3 - Features | Page 6 - Conclusion |
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