Designed for gaming, the H170 PRO GAMING Motherboard from ASUS will fit in cases that support an ATX form factor. The 12.0 x 9.6″ H170 PRO GAMING supports 6th Generation (Skylake) Intel Core i7, i5, i3, Pentium, and Celeron processors, the LGA 1151 socket, as well as the Intel H170 chipset. This motherboard supports Windows 10 (64-bit), 8.1 (64-bit), and 7 (32 & 64-bit).
The ATX form factor of the H170 PRO GAMING has 4 x DIMM slots that can support up to 64GB of 2133 MHz non-ECC, unbuffered DDR4 RAM, as well as dual channel memory architecture and Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules. The H170 PRO GAMING has a total of 4 x SATA III 6 Gb/s ports, 1 x SATA Express connector, and 1 x M.2 Socket 3 connector. It also has 1 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 slot, 1 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 slot (x4 mode), 4 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x1 slots, 1 x USB 3.1 Type-A port, 1 x USB 3.1 Type-C port, 6 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports (2 at the back panel, 4 at mid-board), and 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (2 at the back panel, 6 at mid-board). Using the SupremeFX 8-Channel High Definition audio codec, it can support 8-channel HD audio.
The H170 PRO GAMING has integrated Intel HD graphics support with 1 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort, 1 x DVI-D, and 1 x VGA port. Its HDMI port supports a max resolution of 4096 x 2160 @ 24 Hz, its DisplayPort supports a max resolution of 4096 x 2304 @ 60 Hz, and both its DVI-D and VGA ports support a max resolution of 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz. It is able to use up to 512MB of shared memory and also supports Intel InTru 3D, Intel Quick Sync Video, Intel Clear Video HD Technology, and Intel Insider. There is also multi-GPU support for AMD Quad-GPU CrossFireX technology.
The H170 PRO GAMING has also been designed with LANGuard, GameFirst III, GPU Boost, Fan Xpert 3, USB 3.1 Boost, RAMcache, Digi+ VRM, DRAM Overcurrent Protection, a stainless steel back I/O, ESD Guards, and more. This motherboard includes an I/O shield, 4 x SATA III 6 Gb/s cables, 1 x M.2 screw package, and 1 x 12-in-1 cable labels. It is protected by a limited 3-year warranty.
Drake Lang (verified owner) –
i got the best performance mixing this mobo with my i7 processor…i love it!