Z68 Pro3 Gen3

1. Premium Gold Caps (2.5 x longer life time), 100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors
2. 1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slot
3. Supports Intel  HD Graphics Built-in Visuals
4. Multi VGA Output : D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI
5. 2 x SATA3, 2 x USB 3.0
6. Supports ASRock XFast USB, XFast LAN Technologies
7. Supports ASRock On/Off Play, graphical UEFI, ASRock Extreme Tuning Utility (AXTU)
8. Support Intel  Smart Response, Lucid Virtu Switchable Graphics
9. Combo Cooler Option (C.C.O.)
10. 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec), Supports THX TruStudio
11. Free Bundle : CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial, ASRock MAGIX Multimedia Suite

Next-Gen PCI-E 3.0 Support

By adapting PCI-E 3.0 quick switch IC onboard, the ASRock motherboards can support the Next-Gen PCI-E 3.0!
PCI Express 3.0 can maximize the bandwidth for the next-gen PCI Express 3.0 VGA cards, provide ultimate graphics performance.

• Higher bit rate - 8.0GT/s
• Higher bandwidth per lane - 1GB/s
• Higher efficiency - 98.5% encoding efficiency
• 100% backward compatible with previous PCI-E 2.0 / 1.0 standard

Premium Gold Caps

Premium Gold Caps are luxury capacitors. These 100% Japan-made solid capacitors are sleek, high gloss caps with a premium gold coating representing long life and stable performance.

On/Off Play Technology

Even when the system is powered off (in ACPI S5 mode), On/Off Play Technology still allows users to enjoy the great audio experience from the portable audio devices through the PC speaker.

Graphical UEFI The Revolutionary BIOS Interface

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a revolutionary BIOS utility which offers tweak-friendly options in an advanced viewing interface. Compared with traditional BIOS design, the latest UEFI utility provides lots improved functions. The major features of UEFI include:
1. Graphical Visual Experience UEFI provides an improved visual interface with colorful icons and makes your computing environment more versatile to replace the traditional dull BIOS page.
2. Mouse Enabling Besides keyboard control, you can freely use mouse to select your ideal settings in UEFI as well.
3. Supports 3TB bootable HDD - UEFI breaks the limitations of 2TB bootable HDD on traditional BIOS. With UEFI, you can enjoy 3TB bootable HDD size.*

*Windows  Vista 64bit or Windows  7 64bit OS is required.

 

Free Bundle - Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial

CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 trial now supports Intel  Quick Sync Video hardware transcoding and is optimized for second generation Core i7, i5, and i3 processors to accelerated conversion of all your favorite media files for your favorite portable players. Now you can easily display your favorite movies, songs and photos on iPhone, iPad, PSP, XBox, Youtube, Facebook etc. Compile, convert and enjoy images and songs as much as you want and enhance your videos to new levels with TrueTheater Technology. Try it today!

Limitations:
30-day trial limitation
Convert videos to the H.264 format 50 times

THX TruStudio

THX TruStudio is specially designed to bring the same great audio experience found in live performances, films, and recording studios to the PC.

MAGIX Multimedia Suite

The ultimate solutions to enhance your media experience. From music management, music creation, video editing to photo management. Simply do more with your media than you ever thought possible.

mufin player
The next generation music player plays all standard audio formats, manages large music collections, helps you discover music, offers a free online hard drive and more.

Music Maker Silver
The easiest way to arrange, remix, record and create your own music. Develop your musical style now - without any prior skills.

Video easy SE
With this program you can easily edit your movies, add transitions, text and background music, and even quickly enhance image and sound quality.

Photo Manager 10
Put an end to your digital photo chaos and organize your photo collection with ease. The program is fully equipped for fast import, photo and video clip management, photo editing and presentation.

Lucid Virtu

With Lucid Virtu software, next-generation PCs with 2nd Generation Intel  Core processor platforms will dynamically assign tasks in real time to the best available graphics resource based on power, performance and features.

Intel  Smart Response Technology (ASRock Updates Intel  RST Driver For Intel  Smart Response Technology)

For users who are tempted to connect the SSD and HDD on motherboard, the Intel  Smart Response Technology can make the SSD become the "Cache of the HDD" to boost up the HDD access speed.

AXTU - The All-in-1 Tuning Software

ASRock Extreme Tuning Utility (AXTU) is an all-in-one software to fine-tune different features in an user-friendly interface, which includes Hardware Monitor, Fan Control, Overclocking, OC DNA and IES. In Hardware Monitor, it shows the major readings of your system. In Fan Control, it shows the fan speed and temperature for you to adjust. In Overclocking, you are allowed to adjust the CPU frequency, ratio and some voltages for optimal system performance. In OC DNA, you can save your OC settings as a profile and share with your friends. Your friends then can load the OC profile to their own system to get the same OC settings. In IES (Intelligent Energy Saver), the voltage regulator can reduce the number of output phases to improve efficiency when the CPU cores are idle without sacrificing computing performance.

Intel  HD Graphics Built-in Visuals

Intel  Quick Sync Video
Intel  Quick Sync Video saves valuable time for PC users who want to create and edit video, synchronize it with other devices, and share itat home and on the internet. Intel  Quick Sync Video uses hardware on the processor, instead of software, to accelerate video encoding.

Intel  InTru 3D
Enjoy the ultimate 3D visual experiencesseamlesslyfrom your PC. Now you can watch your favorite 3D movies with Blu-ray Stereo 3D playback using active shutter 3D glasses. It delivers it all in 1080p full, high-definition resolution on your TV over HDMI 1.4.

Intel  Clear Video HD Technology
Intel  Clear Video HD Technology (Intel  CVT HD) enables rich media experiences with picture perfect images by using a host of advanced graphics technologies that support optimized, high-definition video playback and sharp image quality.

Intel  HD Graphics 2000/3000
Intel  HD Graphics is now built right into the processor! This integration means lower latencies and leads to superior mainstream gaming and enhanced 3D experiences.

Intel  Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel  Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel  AVX) gives more computing power to application developers with a new, 256 bit instruction set extension to Intel  SSE.