ASMedia® SATA Express controller***
-1 x SATA Express ports (gray at bottom, compatible with 2 x SATA 6 Gb/s ports)
Storage | * Due to chipset behavior, the SATA6G_78 and SATA6G_910 ports | ||
| (black) do not support Intel® Rapid Storage Technology including RAID | ||
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| configuration. | |
| ** These functions work depending on the CPU installed. | ||
| *** These SATA ports are for data hard drives only. ATAPI devices are | ||
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| not supported. | |
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| Gigabit LAN | ||
| appliance | ||
| - | Intel® | |
LAN |
| integrated Media Access Controller (MAC) and physical layer | |
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| (PHY) | |
| - | Intel® | |
| - | ASUS Turbo LAN utility | |
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| Speedy | ||
Wireless Data Network | GHz up to 1300 Mbit/s transfer speed | ||
| ASUS | ||
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Bluetooth | Bluetooth v4.0 | ||
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| Realtek® ALC1150 | ||
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| featuring Crystal Sound 2 | |
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| - Separate layer for left and right track, ensuring both sounds | |
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| deliver equal quality |
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| - Top notch audio sensation delivers according to the audio | |
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| configuration |
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| - Audio shielding ensures precision analog/digital separation | |
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| and greatly reduced |
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| - Audio Amplifier to enhance the highest quality sound for | |
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| headphone and speakers |
Audio |
| - Premium | |
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| and immersive sound with exceptional clarity and fidelity |
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| - | High quality 112 dB SNR stereo playback output |
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| rear) and 104 dB SNR recording |
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| - | Absolute pitch 192 |
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| - BD audio layer content protection | |
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| - | DTS UltraPC II |
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| - | DTS Connect |
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| - Supports | |
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| retasking (MIC) |
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| - Optical S/PDIF out ports at rear I/O |
Intel® X99 Express Chipset - supports ASUS USB 3.0
Boost
USB | - | 4 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports at |
| - | 6 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports at |
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| panel) |
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