ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 32GB DDR3 Intel Motherboard

Intel® Smart Connect Technology
Intel® Smart Connect Technology keeps content always up-to-date! It means that your email, favorite apps, and social networks are continually and automatically updated even when the system is asleep. Smart Connect will periodically wake up the PC while in a sleep state and check updates for things like email, Twitter, Facebook, etc. No more waiting for the latest world news or friends’ updates to be delivered—just enable this function and you’re up-to-date and ready to go.

Intel® Rapid Start Technology
Intel® Rapid Start Technology gets your device up and running faster from even the deepest sleep, saving time and battery life. It quickly returns where you left off with a PC that goes from deep-sleep to full awake in a flash. The ultra-responsive capability gives your device the power to quickly resume to Windows® 7 OS within few seconds and ensures ultra-low power consumption when on standby. With Intel® Rapid Start Technology, users can jump right back into everything they were doing.

Intel® Smart Response
Intel® Smart Response Technology accelerates the system response experience by putting frequently-used blocks of disk data on a solid-state drive (SSD), providing dramatically faster access to user data than the hard disk alone can provide. For users who are tempted to connect the SSD and HDD on ASRock motherboard, Intel® Smart Response Technology can make the SSD become the "Cache of the HDD" to boost up the HDD access speed. ASRock motherboards with Intel® Smart Response Technology are able to drive 4X faster performance boost than a HDD-only system.

SRock OMG (Online Management Guard)
Fast, Easy and Free – ASRock OMG technology allows you to establish an internet curfew or restrict internet access at specified times. Administrators are able to schedule the starting and ending hours of internet access granted to other users. Normally, ISPs (Internet Service Provider) will charge for internet curfew service. The service controls “all” the PCs connected at home through network remotely but all the PCs in that network will be restricted to access the internet at pre-setup times. However, ASRock OMG is a free tool for controlling internet access of each single PC. Parents can easily control internet access through BIOS setup to protect their kids from using Internet at inappropriate time, and meanwhile, enjoy their own internet space.

Internet Flash
Internet Flash searches for available UEFI firmware updates from ASRock servers. System can auto-detect the latest UEFI from our servers and flash them within UEFI setup without entering Windows® OS.

Premium Gold Caps
Premium Gold Caps are luxury capacitors. These 100% Japan-made solid capacitors are sleek, high gloss caps with a premium gold coating representing long life and stable performance

Digi Power
By adopting digital pulse-width modulation (PWM), the ASRock motherboard can provide CPU Vcore voltage more efficiently and smoothly. Compared to analog PWM, digital PWM can optimize the CPU power solution and provide a proper and stable Vcore for the processor.

8+4 Power Phase
This motherboard is designed with a 8 + 4 Power Phase design. It features sturdy components and completely smooth power delivery to the CPU. Plus, it offers unmatched overclocking capability and enhanced performance with the lowest temperature for advanced gamers as well.

4 x DDR3 2800+(OC)
This motherboard unlocks maximum memory performance, coming with 4 DIMM slots for dual-channel memory, supporting up to DDR3 2800+ (OC) MHz.

Specification

• Premium Gold Caps
• Digi Power Design, 8 + 4 Power Phase Design
• Supports Dual Channel DDR3 2800+(OC)
• 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 Slots, Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, CrossFireX™ and NVIDIA® Quad SLI™, SLI™
• PCIE Gigabit LAN
• Supports Intel® HD Graphics with Built-in Visuals
• Multi VGA Output options : DVI-D, D-Sub, HDMI
• Combo Cooler Option (C.C.O.)
• 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC898 Audio Codec), Supports THX TruStudio™
• Supports ASRock XFast RAM, XFast LAN, XFast USB, OMG, Internet Flash, Dehumidifier, UEFI System Browser
• Supports Intel® Smart Connect, Intel® Rapid Start, Lucid Virtu Universal MVP
• Free Bundle : CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial, ASRock MAGIX Multimedia Suite

Technical Details

Model

• Brand : ASRock
• Model : Z77 Extreme 4

CPU

• Supports 3rd and 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 in LGA1155 Package
• Digi Power Desig
• 8 + 4 Power Phase Design
• Supports Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology
• Supports Intel® K-Series unlocked CPU
• Supports Hyper-Threading Technology

Chipset

• Intel® Z77
• Supports Intel® Rapid Start Technology and Smart Connect Technology

Memory

• Dual Channel DDR3 memory technology
• 4 x DDR3 DIMM slots
• Supports DDR3 2800+(OC)/2400(OC)/2133(OC)/1866(OC)/1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
• Max. capacity of system memory: 32GB
• Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 1.3 / 1.2

BIOS

• 64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with GUI support
• Supports "Plug and Play"
• ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events
• Supports jumperfree
• SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support
• CPU Core, IGPU, DRAM, 1.8V PLL, VTT, VCCSA Voltage Multi-adjustment

Graphics

• Supports Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals : Intel® Quick Sync Video 2.0, Intel® InTru™ 3D, Intel® Clear Video
• HD Technology, Intel® Insider™, Intel® HD Graphics 2500/4000
• Pixel Shader 5.0, DirectX 11 with Intel® Ivy Bridge CPU. Pixel Shader 4.1, DirectX 10.1 with Intel® Sandy Bridge CPU.
• Max. shared memory 1760MB
• Multi VGA Output options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI
• Supports HDMI 1.4a Technology with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz
• Supports DVI with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz
• Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 2048x1536 @ 75Hz
• Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI (Compliant HDMI monitor is required)
• Supports HDCP function with DVI and HDMI ports
• Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD playback with DVI and HDMI ports

Audio

• 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC898 Audio Codec)
• Premium Blu-ray audio support
• Supports THX TruStudio

LAN

• PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
• Broadcom BCM57781
• Supports Wake-On-LAN
• Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az
• Supports PXE

Slots

• 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE3: single at x16 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE3) or dual at x8/x8 mode)
• 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots
• 2 x PCI slots
• Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX
• Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™ and SLI

SATA3

• 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors by Intel® Z77, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid
• Storage and Intel® Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions
• 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" functions (SATA3_A1 connector is shared with eSATA3 port)

USB 3.0

• 2 x Rear USB 3.0 ports by Intel® Z77, support USB 1.0/2.0/3.0 up to 5Gb/s
• 2 x Rear USB 3.0 ports by ASMedia ASM1042, support USB 1.0/2.0/3.0 up to 5Gb/s
• 1 x Front USB 3.0 header by Intel® Z77 (supports 2 USB 3.0 ports), supports USB 1.0/2.0/3.0 up to 5Gb/s

Connector

• 4 x SATA2 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid Storage and Intel® Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions
• 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors
• 1 x IR header
• 1 x CIR header
• 1 x COM port header
• 1 x HDMI_SPDIF header
• 1 x Power LED header
• 2 x CPU Fan connectors (1 x 4-pin, 1 x 3-pin)
• 3 x Chassis Fan connectors (1 x 4-pin, 2 x 3-pin)
• 1 x Power Fan connector (3-pin)
• 24 pin ATX power connector
• 8 pin 12V power connector
• Front panel audio connector
• 3 x USB 2.0 headers (support 6 USB 2.0 ports)
• 1 x USB 3.0 header (supports 2 USB 3.0 ports)
• 1 x Dr. Debug with LED
• 1 x Power Switch with LED
• 1 x Reset Switch with LED
• 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED

Rear Panel I/O

• I/O Panel
• 1 x PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Port
• 1 x D-Sub Port
• 1 x DVI-D Port
• 1 x HDMI Port
• 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
• 2 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
• 1 x eSATA3 Connector
• 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 3.0 Ports
• 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
• 1 x Clear CMOS Switch with LED
• HD Audio Jack: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone

Form Factor

• ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.6-in, 30.5 cm x 21.8 cm
• Premium Gold Capacitor design (100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors)