The advanced 5X Protection II employs fine components, excellent circuit design, and exacting standards to guarantee quality and long-term durability of your motherboard with all-round protection. For you, that means exceptional protection and stability for your build. ASUS LANGuard is hardware-level networking protection that employs signal-coupling technology and premium anti-EMI surface-mounted capacitors to ensure a more reliable connection and better throughput, plus electrostatically guarded and surge-protected components for greater tolerance to static electricity and improved protection against surges. An exclusive circuit design with built-in voltage regulators to protect your chipset, connectivity ports, and audio codecs from damage caused by unexpected high-level voltages from unstable or inferior power supplies.
Expansion Slots1 x CPU ¦ 2 x DIMM 288-pin ¦ 1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16 mode (with AMD Ryzen CPU); x8 mode (with AMD 7th Generation A-series/Athlon CPU)) ¦ 2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 ¦ 1 x PCI
Storage InterfacesSATA-600 -connectors: 4 x 7pin Serial ATA - RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 10 ¦ SATA-600 / PCIe 3.0 -connectors: 1 x M.2
Interfaces1 x LAN (Gigabit Ethernet) ¦ 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ¦ 1 x PS/2 keyboard ¦ 1 x audio line-in - mini-jack ¦ 1 x audio line-out - mini-jack ¦ 1 x microphone - mini-jack ¦ 1 x PS/2 mouse ¦ 1 x VGA ¦ 2 x USB 2.0 ¦ 1 x HDMI ¦ 1 x DVI-D ¦ 1 x serial
Internal Interfaces4 x USB 2.0 - header ¦ 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 - header ¦ 1 x serial - header ¦ 1 x audio - header ¦ 1 x speaker - header ¦ 1 x parallel - header
Power Connectors4-pin ATX12V connector, 24-pin main power connector
Features
BIOS TypeAMI
BIOS FeaturesWfM 2.0 support, Multilingual BIOS, ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution, UEFI BIOS, ASUS EZ Flash 3, SMBIOS 3.0 support, ACPI 6.1 support
Hardware FeaturesASUS Q-Design, ESD Guards, Q-DIMM, ASUS EZ DIY, Q-Slot, CrashFree BIOS 3, ASUS Fan Xpert, ASUS DIGI+ VRM, Fanless Design Heatsink, ASUS Enhanced DRAM Overcurrent Protection, ASUS Stainless Steel Back I/O, LANGuard, ASUS Overvoltage Protection, ASUS 5X Protection II
Miscellaneous
Included Accessories1 x M.2 screw, I/O back cover
Cables Included2 x Serial ATA cable
Software IncludedDrivers & Utilities, ASUS EZ Flash 3