Removing Heat-sinks
Heatsinks are made up of dense aluminum with thermal pad installed, giving great passive cooling to VRM MOSFETs and Z170 chipset.
Component Layout
Let’s now see what all components ASUS have planned for this board.
1. Digital 10-phase CPU Power VRM Section with Texas Instruments 87350D MOSFETs rated up to 40A each along with 60A Ferrite Chokes and 10K Black Capacitors.
2. Asus DIGI+ VRM Asp 1400 voltage controller chip.
3. Two separate DRAM Power section
4. ASUS ROG chip handling USB BIOS flash.
5. Etrontech EJ179V chipset is the USB 3.1 Type-A and Type-C switch with logic control chip.
6. ASMedia ASM1142 is PCIe-to-two-port USB 3.1 controller
7. Intel's i219v is used as the integrated GBit LAN solution.
8. The nuvoTon NCT6793D is the main SuperIO controller used for fan control, voltage and temperature monitoring, and the PS/2 port.
9. ASUS SupremeFX 2015 audio solution is powered by Realtek ALC1150 audio codec coupled with ESS ES9023P DAC with Hyperstream technology, Nichicon Premium Audio capacitors, SupremeFX Shielding, 2VRMS Headphone Output, NEC De-pop Relay and Dedicated Clock Crystal.
A semi-transparent line on motherboard separates the whole audio section from the rest of the board in order to minimize interference. Front Audio section features Sonic SenseAmp for best headset sound experience.
RightMark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) suite is used for testing test ASUS RANGER VIII audio against Asus Xonar DX Sound card. You can see clearly the difference between Noise level, dynamic rang and Total harmonic distortion percentage produced by on-board audio.
RMAA Asus Xonar DX
RMAA SupremeFX 2015 Audio
10. Intel Z170 Chipset.
11. UEFI BIOS is stored in a Winbond 25Q128fV 128MB 8-Pin DIP Package chip, installed in a DIP socket 8-Pin for easy user replacement.
12. 13ASUS custom ROG & TPU controllers.
14. ASMedia ASM1480 PCI-e lane switch chips.
Heatsinks are made up of dense aluminum with thermal pad installed, giving great passive cooling to VRM MOSFETs and Z170 chipset.
Component Layout
Let’s now see what all components ASUS have planned for this board.
1. Digital 10-phase CPU Power VRM Section with Texas Instruments 87350D MOSFETs rated up to 40A each along with 60A Ferrite Chokes and 10K Black Capacitors.
2. Asus DIGI+ VRM Asp 1400 voltage controller chip.
3. Two separate DRAM Power section
4. ASUS ROG chip handling USB BIOS flash.
5. Etrontech EJ179V chipset is the USB 3.1 Type-A and Type-C switch with logic control chip.
6. ASMedia ASM1142 is PCIe-to-two-port USB 3.1 controller
7. Intel's i219v is used as the integrated GBit LAN solution.
8. The nuvoTon NCT6793D is the main SuperIO controller used for fan control, voltage and temperature monitoring, and the PS/2 port.
9. ASUS SupremeFX 2015 audio solution is powered by Realtek ALC1150 audio codec coupled with ESS ES9023P DAC with Hyperstream technology, Nichicon Premium Audio capacitors, SupremeFX Shielding, 2VRMS Headphone Output, NEC De-pop Relay and Dedicated Clock Crystal.
A semi-transparent line on motherboard separates the whole audio section from the rest of the board in order to minimize interference. Front Audio section features Sonic SenseAmp for best headset sound experience.
RightMark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) suite is used for testing test ASUS RANGER VIII audio against Asus Xonar DX Sound card. You can see clearly the difference between Noise level, dynamic rang and Total harmonic distortion percentage produced by on-board audio.
RMAA Asus Xonar DX
RMAA SupremeFX 2015 Audio
10. Intel Z170 Chipset.
11. UEFI BIOS is stored in a Winbond 25Q128fV 128MB 8-Pin DIP Package chip, installed in a DIP socket 8-Pin for easy user replacement.
12. 13ASUS custom ROG & TPU controllers.
14. ASMedia ASM1480 PCI-e lane switch chips.