Advanced Hardware Safeguards Industry-leading 5X Protection II employs the finest components excellent circuit design & exacting standards to guarantee quality & long-term durability of your motherboard with all-round protection. For you that means exceptional protection & stability for your build — the result of decades of engineering experience from the world's leading motherboard br&. LANGuard. Pumped-up throughput. 2.5X higher surge tolerance. ASUS LANGuard is hardware-level networking protection that employs signal-coupling technology & premium anti-EMI surface-mounted capacitors ensuring a more reliable connection & better throughput plus electrostatically-guarded & surge-protected components for greater tolerance to static electricity & enhanced protection against surges. Overvoltage Protection
- World-class circuit-protecting power design An exclusive circuit design with built-in voltage regulators to protect your chipset connectivity ports & audio codecs from damage caused by unexpected high-level voltages from unstable or inferior power supplies. ESD Guards Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can happen suddenly & its damaging effects are easily underestimated. ASUS ESD Guards are tested to very high standards capable of up to +/- 10k V for air discharge & +/-6k V for contact discharge. We employ an active protective circuit design to guard your system against electrostatic interference & damage providing greater component longevity. DDR4 Support
- Make your memory go faster With DDR4 you'll accelerate memory frequencies up to an incredible to 2133 M Hz! & ASUS works with almost every DDR4 memory vendor so you're assured the best compatibility. Instant front-panel USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 Experience We've put USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 right where you need it — two super-speed ports on the front panel. Experience data-transfer speeds up to 10X faster than USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 with instant plug-&-play connectivity so no more back-breaking contortions in the hunt for hard-to-reach rear ports!.