#Intel smart connect technology review Bluetooth#

вЂ“ Supports IntelВ® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU the above description is for reference only. Supports 5th and 4th Generation IntelВ® Coreв„ў Processors, and IntelВ® PentiumВ® and CeleronВ® Processors for the Socket LGA1150.

#Intel smart connect technology review Bluetooth#

The heat sinks can use traditional air cooling, or be hooked into an existing water loop using the provided 3/8' barbs.MSI integrated in the following components into the Z97 XPower's design: 10 SATA 3 ports one M.2 10 Gb/s ports an Intel I218-V GigE NIC an Intel 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth adapter five PCI-Express x16 slots for up to quad-card NVIDIA SLI or AMD CrossFire support two PCI-Express x1 slots a 2-digit diagnostic LED display on-board power, reset, BIOS reset, cpu ratio control, base clock control, OC Genie, power discharge, and Go2BIOS buttons Slow Mode boot,OC Genie mode, DirectOC mode, Multi-BIOS, and PCIe control switches Realtek audio solution with isolated audio PCB and Nippon Chemi-con audio capacitors dedicated per-channel headphone OP-AMPs integrated V-Check voltage measurement points hybrid VRM cooling solution and USB 2.0 and 3.0 port support. To aid in cooling the CPU power circuitry and integrated PLX, MSI included a hybrid cooling solution into the sinks surrounding the CPU socket. The board alos comes standard with MSI's Military Class 4 digital components to maximize the board's performance potential, including Hi-C and Dark capacitors with super ferrite chokes and DrMOS MOSFET chips.

The Z97 XPower motherboard was designed with 16 digital power phases for powering the CPU.