Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - Page 10

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Storage
Intel
®
Z87 Express Chipset
- 6 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (brown) with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
support
- Supports Intel
®
Smart Response Technology, Intel
®
Rapid Start
Technology, Intel
®
Smart Connect Technology*
2 x ASMedia
®
SATA 6Gb/s controllers**
- 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (beige)
- 2 x eSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (red)
* These functions will work depending on the CPU installed.
** These SATA ports are for data hard drives only. ATAPI devices are not
supported.
Audio
Realtek
®
ALC1150 8-channel high denition audio CODEC
- High quality 112dB SNR stereo playback output (Line-out at
rear) and 104dB SNR recording input (Line-in) support.
- Absolute pitch 192khz/24bit true BD lossless sound
- BD audio layer content protection
- Supports jack-detection, multi-streaming and front panel jack-
retasking
- Optical S/PDIF out ports at rear I/O
USB
Intel
®
Z87 Express Chipset - supports ASUS USB 3.0
Boost
- 6 x USB 3.0 ports (2 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at rear panel)
Intel
®
Z87 Express Chipset
- 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at rear
panel)
Exclusive TUF Features
“Ultimate COOL!” Thermal Solution
- TUF Thermal Armor with Flow Valve
- TUF Thermal Radar 2 with Thermistor cables
“We Got Your Back” Shape Force
- TUF Fortier
“TUF ENGINE” Power Design
- 8+2 Digital Phase Power Design
- TUF Components (Choke, Cap & MOSFET; certied by
military-standard)
- ASUS DIGI+ Power Control Utility
“SAFE & Stable!” Guardian Angel
- Dust Defender with connector caps and rear I/O dust lter
- ESD Guards
- MemOK!
- Anti-surge
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SABERTOOTH Z87 specications summary