User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Basic Installation
- Chapter 3: BIOS Setup
- 3.1 Knowing BIOS
- 3.2 BIOS setup program
- 3.3 My Favorites
- 3.4 Main menu
- 3.5 Extreme Tweaker menu
- 3.6 Advanced menu
- 3.6.1 CPU Configuration
- 3.6.2 Platform Misc Configuration
- 3.6.3 System Agent (SA) Configuration
- 3.6.4 ROG Effects
- 3.6.5 PCH Configuration
- 3.6.6 PCH Storage Configuration
- 3.6.7 USB Configuration
- 3.6.8 Network Stack Configuration
- 3.6.9 Onboard Devices Configuration
- 3.6.10 APM Configuration
- 3.6.11 HDD/SDD SMART Information
- 3.6.12 Intel(R) ThunderBolt
- 3.6.1 CPU Configuration
- 3.7 Monitor menu
- 3.8 Boot menu
- 3.9 Tool menu
- 3.10 Exit menu
- 3.11 Updating BIOS
- Chapter 4: Software Support
- 4.1 Installing an operating system
- 4.2 Support DVD information
- 4.3 Software information
- 4.4 AI Suite 3
- 4.5 Dual Intelligent Processors 5
- 4.6 ROG Audio features
- 4.7 Sonic Radar II
- 4.8 GameFirst III
- 4.9 KeyBot II
- 4.10 ASUS Media Streamer
- 4.11 RAMDisk
- 4.12 MemTweakIt
- 4.13 ROG CPU-Z
- 4.14 RAMCache
- 4.15 Lighting Control
- Chapter 5: RAID Support
- Appendix
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Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Chapter 1
Layout contents
Connectors/Jumpers/Buttons and switches/Slots Page
1. ATX power connectors (24-pin EATXPWR; 8-pin EATX12V_1; 4-pin
EATX12V_2; 4-pin EZ_PLUG)
1-43
2. LGA1151 CPU Socket 1-9
3. CPU, water pump, CPU optional, extension, and chassis fan connectors
(4-pin CPU_FAN; 4-pin W_PUMP; 4-pin CPU_OPT; 5-pin EXT_FAN;
4-pin CHA_FAN1-4)
1-42
4. DDR4 DIMM slots 1-10
5. PCIe x16 Lane switch 1-28
6. RESET button 1-24
7. START (Power-on) button 1-24
8. Q-Code LED 1-31
9. LN2 Mode jumper (3-pin LN2_MODE) 1-37
10. Slow Mode switch 1-28
11. ReTry button (RETRY_BUTTON) 1-26
12. Safe Boot button (SAFE_BOOT) 1-26
13. MemOK! button 1-25
14. DRAM channel jumper (3-pin DRAM_CHA) 1-37
15. DRAM channel jumper (3-pin DRAM_CHB)
1-37
16. USB 3.0 connectors (20-1 pin USB3_12; USB3_34)
1-39
17. LED connector (5-pin LED_CON1) 1-45
18. T_Sensor connector (2-pin T_SENSOR1-3) 1-46
19. Intel
®
Z170 Serial ATA 6 Gb/s and SATA Express connectors (7-pin
SATA6G_56; SATAEXPRESS12)
1-38
20. ASMedia
®
Serial ATA 6 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E12) 1-39
21. M.2 connector 1-46
22. U.2 connector (U.2) 1-41
23. System panel connector (20-5 pin PANEL) 1-44
24. BIOS switch button (BIOS_SWITCH) 1-27
25. SLI/CFX button (SLI/CFX) 1-27
26. USB 2.0 connectors (10-1 pin USB1314; USB1112; USB910) 1-40
27. ROG Extension connector (18-1 pin ROG_EXT) 1-45
28. Thunderbolt header (5-pin TB_HEADER) 1-47
29. Front panel audio connector (10-1 pin AAFP) 1-41