The Intel LGA1150 motherboard supports DDR3 memory modules and can be optimized in the BIOS for DDR3-1600 Dual Channel modules with an Intel Haswell processor. Here is a picture of both DDR3 memory slots with dual channel support: The ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac can be equipped with up to two DDR3 modules and is expandable depending upon operating system used (see list) to maximally 16 GB memory. Additionally to the PCI Express 3.0 slot there is one mini-PCI Express slot available. The motherboard offers one PCI Express 3.0 video card slots for one video card with x16 band-width. The ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac offers numerous features like for example the ASRock A-Tuning Tool, ASRock Instant Flash, ASRock Internet Flash, ASRock APP Charger, ASRock Fast Boot, ASRock Restart to UEFI, ASRock XFast LAN, ASRock XFast RAM, ASRock Crashless BIOS, ASRock Online Management Guard, ASRock UEFI System Browser, ASRock Dehumidifier Function, ASRock Easy RAID Installer, ASRock Easy Driver Installer, ASRock Good Night LED, ASRock USB Key, ASRock Cloud, 6 Power Phase Design and ASRock FAN-Tastic Tuning. USB slot brackets or the ASRock 3.5-inch USB3.0 frontpanel are optional available. The ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac motherboard came with a manual, software setup guide, one DVD, two SATA data cables, screws for the M.2 socket and one ATX I/O shield. Our recently tested Plextor M6e 256GB PCIe M.2 SSD could not be installed on this motherboard, because it is an 80 mm long PCIe M.2 2280 SSD and not the supported PCIe M.2 2230 or PCIe M.2 2242 SSD of this motherboard: It is worth to take a look on the back of this Sapphire Black ASRock board, because there is a M.2 slot for PCIe Gen2 x2 M.2 PCI Express modules installed: By the way, currently there is no ASRock Z97E-ITX mainboard version without the WiFi module: Here is the LGA1150 Socket, which is assembled in the test with an Intel Core-i5 4670K:Īnother feature of this Z97E-ITX/ac motherboards is the preinstalled Wi-Fi 802.11ac module with 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac support, as well as Bluetooth v4. Thanks to the ASRock Super Alloy design, there are instead of conventional capacitors even the durable 12K Platinum caps, the new premium alloy chokes, NexFET MOSFET for the memory and Dual-Stack MOSFET for the CPU. The ITX space is pretty small, but you still get a full fledged Z97 motherboard with PCIE slot, 24-pin ATX power connector and two fullsize DDR3 slots: The ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac board is very well finished, has Digi Power and 6 Power Phase Design.

Like the larger ATX, this board was also carefully wrapped with foam and fastened with cable ties for safe delivery: Here you can see a comparison of the ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac ITX mainboard box with the ASRock Z97 Extreme6 ATX motherboard box: In this cardboard box the ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac LGA 1150 motherboard is delivered:

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