ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac Review at Proclockers

Long gone are the days when an ATX motherboard was required to build a full featured PC. Now features like sound, network, and a host of other features can be found on every consumer motherboard on the market. Thanks to these advances, previously seldom used form factors, like mATX and ITX are now far more common. Sure the ATX still reigns supreme, but you don?™t need a massive case to have a really great PC anymore.

Enter the ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac, a motherboard with a list of features as long as your arm, but in a 6.7??x 6.7??ITX package. The Z97E-ITX/ac supports Intel Core4th Generation Haswell/Devils Canyon processors. On the networking side, Intel I218V Gigabit LAN does the duties. A Realtek ALC1150 115dB SNR HD Audio controller with a TI® NE5532 premium headset amplifier supplies your audio needs.  ASRock?™s Super Alloy construction features an XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink, premium 60A power choke, premium memory choke, Ultra Dual-N MOSFET (UDM), NexFET??MOSFET, Nichicon 12K Platinum Caps, and Sapphire Black PCB. There?™s also 2T2R 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, SATA Express, and M.2 connectivity as well.

ASRock has not been remiss on the software side either. They have revised their UEFI BIOS, which has exclusive ASROCK Overclocking features. There is also an application center that allows quite a bit of control over the BIOS, overclocking, and other various features from inside the Windows environment.