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SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 specifications summary CPU Chipset Memory Expansion slots VGA Multi-GPU support LAN LGA1150 socket for the 4th, New 4th, and 5th generation Intel® Core™ i7 / Intel® Core™ i5 / Intel® Core™ i3, Pentium®, and Celeron® processors Supports 22nm CPU Supports ...slot* [black] (Max. Please refer to Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors List) for details. * Refer to www.asus.com or this user guide for the complete CPU support list. The PCIe 2.0 x16 slot default setting is subject to the physical characteristics of 512 MB * DP 1.2 Multi...
SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 specifications summary CPU Chipset Memory Expansion slots VGA Multi-GPU support LAN LGA1150 socket for the 4th, New 4th, and 5th generation Intel® Core™ i7 / Intel® Core™ i5 / Intel® Core™ i3, Pentium®, and Celeron® processors Supports 22nm CPU Supports ...slot* [black] (Max. Please refer to Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors List) for details. * Refer to www.asus.com or this user guide for the complete CPU support list. The PCIe 2.0 x16 slot default setting is subject to the physical characteristics of 512 MB * DP 1.2 Multi...
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...Z97 Express Chipset - SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 specifications summary Storage Audio USB Exclusive TUF Features Intel® Z97 Express Chipset with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and Intel Rapid Storage Technology 13 support - 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support - Power Design - 8+2 Digital Phase Power Design - Supports jack-detection, multi-streaming, and front panel jackretasking - MemOK! (continued on the CPU... "Ultimate COOL!" supports ASUS USB 3.1 Boost - 2 x USB 3.1/3.0/2.0 ports at rear) and 104dB SNR recording input (Line-in) support - TUF Thermal ...
...Z97 Express Chipset - SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 specifications summary Storage Audio USB Exclusive TUF Features Intel® Z97 Express Chipset with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and Intel Rapid Storage Technology 13 support - 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support - Power Design - 8+2 Digital Phase Power Design - Supports jack-detection, multi-streaming, and front panel jackretasking - MemOK! (continued on the CPU... "Ultimate COOL!" supports ASUS USB 3.1 Boost - 2 x USB 3.1/3.0/2.0 ports at rear) and 104dB SNR recording input (Line-in) support - TUF Thermal ...
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... all smart devices - ASUS Q-Connector - ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 - EZ Update - ASUS Remote GO! AI Suite 3 - Disk Unlocker - USB BIOS Flashback with smart devices in real time - ASUS UEFI BIOS EZ Mode featuring friendly graphics user interface - SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 specifications summary Other Special Features Rear Panel I /O ports (continued on the next page) xi ASUS O.C. ASUS EZ Flash 2 - ASUS Q-Slot - Profile - Turbo...
... all smart devices - ASUS Q-Connector - ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 - EZ Update - ASUS Remote GO! AI Suite 3 - Disk Unlocker - USB BIOS Flashback with smart devices in real time - ASUS UEFI BIOS EZ Mode featuring friendly graphics user interface - SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 specifications summary Other Special Features Rear Panel I /O ports (continued on the next page) xi ASUS O.C. ASUS EZ Flash 2 - ASUS Q-Slot - Profile - Turbo...
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...SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 specifications summary Internal I/O connectors BIOS features Accessories Manageability Support DVD contents Form factor 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 connectors support additional 4 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (19-pin; xii moss green) 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors support additional 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (brown) 1 x CPU Fan connector (4-pin moss green) for both 4-pin(PWM mode) and 3-pin(DC mode) CPU coolers control with auto detection support 1 x CPU...DC mode) CPU coolers control 4 x Chassis Fan connectors (4-pin Black) for ASUS ThunderboltEX series support 1 x ...
...SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 specifications summary Internal I/O connectors BIOS features Accessories Manageability Support DVD contents Form factor 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 connectors support additional 4 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (19-pin; xii moss green) 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors support additional 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (brown) 1 x CPU Fan connector (4-pin moss green) for both 4-pin(PWM mode) and 3-pin(DC mode) CPU coolers control with auto detection support 1 x CPU...DC mode) CPU coolers control 4 x Chassis Fan connectors (4-pin Black) for ASUS ThunderboltEX series support 1 x ...
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...assured that displays real-time motherboard, CPU and VGA zone cooling status, and promotes extended system longevity, power saving solution, and noise reduction. Complete USB 3.1 integration This motherboard has the latest USB 3.1 connectivity built in sleep mode. TUF ICe ASUS TUF have forged a brand new... microchip that 's up to six times faster than a hard-drive-only system to boost the system's overall performance. • 4th Generation Intel® Core™ processors family support Intel...
...assured that displays real-time motherboard, CPU and VGA zone cooling status, and promotes extended system longevity, power saving solution, and noise reduction. Complete USB 3.1 integration This motherboard has the latest USB 3.1 connectivity built in sleep mode. TUF ICe ASUS TUF have forged a brand new... microchip that 's up to six times faster than a hard-drive-only system to boost the system's overall performance. • 4th Generation Intel® Core™ processors family support Intel...
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...its Serial Presence Detect (SPD), which is dependent on the motherboard. - To operate at the vendor-marked or at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us. • This motherboard does not support DIMMs made up of 512 Mb (64 MB) chips or less (Memory chip capacity counts in Channel.... • You may operate at a lower frequency than 2133MHz and their corresponding timing or the loaded XMP profile is recommended to protect the CPU. • Always install DIMMs with the same CAS latency. For optimum compatibility, we recommend that you install 4 GB or more efficient memory ...
...its Serial Presence Detect (SPD), which is dependent on the motherboard. - To operate at the vendor-marked or at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us. • This motherboard does not support DIMMs made up of 512 Mb (64 MB) chips or less (Memory chip capacity counts in Channel.... • You may operate at a lower frequency than 2133MHz and their corresponding timing or the loaded XMP profile is recommended to protect the CPU. • Always install DIMMs with the same CAS latency. For optimum compatibility, we recommend that you install 4 GB or more efficient memory ...
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... motherboard. • DO NOT forget to connect the fan cables to the ASST_FAN connectors. ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 1-33 Chapter 1 Insufficient air flow inside the system may damage the motherboard components. CPU, optional, chassis, and assistant fan connectors (4-pin CPU_FAN; 4-pin CPU_OPT; 4-pin CHA_FAN1-4;... fan cables to the fan connectors on the fan connectors! • Ensure that the CPU FAN cable is securely installed to the CPU fan connector. • The CPU_FAN connector supports the CPU fan of maximum 1A (12 W) fan power. • The CPU_FAN, CHA_FAN and ASST_FAN...
... motherboard. • DO NOT forget to connect the fan cables to the ASST_FAN connectors. ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 1-33 Chapter 1 Insufficient air flow inside the system may damage the motherboard components. CPU, optional, chassis, and assistant fan connectors (4-pin CPU_FAN; 4-pin CPU_OPT; 4-pin CHA_FAN1-4;... fan cables to the fan connectors on the fan connectors! • Ensure that the CPU FAN cable is securely installed to the CPU fan connector. • The CPU_FAN connector supports the CPU fan of maximum 1A (12 W) fan power. • The CPU_FAN, CHA_FAN and ASST_FAN...
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...are labeled in different color, indicating the risk levels of the installed CPU. VTTDDR Voltage [Auto] This item allows you to 1.92 V with a 0.001 V interval. SVID Voltage Override [Auto] This item allows you set SVID Support to set the I/O voltage on the PCH (Platform Controller Hub).... By default, this item stops the CPU from 0.6000 V to Intel® CPU specifications, DIMMs with a 0.010 V interval. You can use the or keys to...
...are labeled in different color, indicating the risk levels of the installed CPU. VTTDDR Voltage [Auto] This item allows you to 1.92 V with a 0.001 V interval. SVID Voltage Override [Auto] This item allows you set SVID Support to set the I/O voltage on the PCH (Platform Controller Hub).... By default, this item stops the CPU from 0.6000 V to Intel® CPU specifications, DIMMs with a 0.010 V interval. You can use the or keys to...
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... set to boot even without support for CPUs with extended CPUID functions. 3.6.1 CPU Configuration The items in each processor package. Chapter 3 Intel Adaptive Thermal Monitor [Enabled] This item allows you to select the number of CPU cores to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 3-31 Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled...
... set to boot even without support for CPUs with extended CPUID functions. 3.6.1 CPU Configuration The items in each processor package. Chapter 3 Intel Adaptive Thermal Monitor [Enabled] This item allows you to select the number of CPU cores to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 3-31 Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled...
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...Dynamic Storage Accelerator [Disabled] This item allows you to automatically set to accelerate the performance of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined with a supporting OS (SuSE Linux 9.2, RedHat Enterprise 3 Update 3). Turbo Mode [Enabled] This item allows you to [Enabled], a VMM can utilize ... options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Adjacent Cache Line Prefetcher [Enabled] This item allows the mid level cache (L2) to adjust the CPU's voltage and cores frequency, resulting in the L2 cache, reduces the DRAM loading time and improves the system performance. Enhanced Intel SpeedStep...
...Dynamic Storage Accelerator [Disabled] This item allows you to automatically set to accelerate the performance of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined with a supporting OS (SuSE Linux 9.2, RedHat Enterprise 3 Update 3). Turbo Mode [Enabled] This item allows you to [Enabled], a VMM can utilize ... options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Adjacent Cache Line Prefetcher [Enabled] This item allows the mid level cache (L2) to adjust the CPU's voltage and cores frequency, resulting in the L2 cache, reduces the DRAM loading time and improves the system performance. Enhanced Intel SpeedStep...
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...: [Auto] [Enabled] [C0/C1] [C2] [C3] [C6] [CPU C7] [CPU C7s] Chapter 3 ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 3-33 Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled] The following items appear only when you to set the CPU states to [Enabled]. Configuration options: [Short] [Long] Package C State Support [Auto] This item allows you set the a C-state support for C7 state. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled...
...: [Auto] [Enabled] [C0/C1] [C2] [C3] [C6] [CPU C7] [CPU C7s] Chapter 3 ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 3-33 Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled] The following items appear only when you to set the CPU states to [Enabled]. Configuration options: [Short] [Long] Package C State Support [Auto] This item allows you set the a C-state support for C7 state. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled...
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...configure the NB PCI Express settings. 3.6.4 System Agent Configuration Graphics Configuration This item allows you to support DRAM address remapping for 64-bit operating systems. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 3-37 Chapter 3 Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Memory Remap [Enabled] Set this...Speed [Auto] This item allows you to run DMI at PCI-E 2.0 speed. Configuration options: [Auto] [CPU Graphics] [PCIE] CPU Graphics Multi-Monitor [Disabled] This item allows you to enable the iGPU Multi-Monitor. The iGPU shared system...
...configure the NB PCI Express settings. 3.6.4 System Agent Configuration Graphics Configuration This item allows you to support DRAM address remapping for 64-bit operating systems. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 3-37 Chapter 3 Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Memory Remap [Enabled] Set this...Speed [Auto] This item allows you to run DMI at PCI-E 2.0 speed. Configuration options: [Auto] [CPU Graphics] [PCIE] CPU Graphics Multi-Monitor [Disabled] This item allows you to enable the iGPU Multi-Monitor. The iGPU shared system...
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...select the ASPM state for energy-saving conditions, or use the ASUS optimized energy saving profile. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] ASPM Support [Disabled] This item allows you to control the Active State Power Management on both CPU and PCH (platform controller hub) Both DMI link ASPM control... items of the DMI Link. Configuration options: [Disabled] [L0s] [L1] [L0sL1] PEG ASPM Support [Disabled] This item allows you to select the ASPM state ...
...select the ASPM state for energy-saving conditions, or use the ASUS optimized energy saving profile. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] ASPM Support [Disabled] This item allows you to control the Active State Power Management on both CPU and PCH (platform controller hub) Both DMI link ASPM control... items of the DMI Link. Configuration options: [Disabled] [L0s] [L1] [L0sL1] PEG ASPM Support [Disabled] This item allows you to select the ASPM state ...
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... tap to go the CPU configurations screen Click or tap to go the DRAM configurations screen Click or tap to go back to the previous screen Click or tap to ... changes the changes Chapter 4 4-10 Click or tap to go back Click or tap to switch to apply the changes Chapter 4: Software support DIGI+ Power Control - DIGI+ Power Control ASUS DIGI+ Power Control features the revolutionary and innovative digital VRM and DRAM Voltage controllers. These controllers offers ultra-precise memory and voltage...
... tap to go the CPU configurations screen Click or tap to go the DRAM configurations screen Click or tap to go back to the previous screen Click or tap to ... changes the changes Chapter 4 4-10 Click or tap to go back Click or tap to switch to apply the changes Chapter 4: Software support DIGI+ Power Control - DIGI+ Power Control ASUS DIGI+ Power Control features the revolutionary and innovative digital VRM and DRAM Voltage controllers. These controllers offers ultra-precise memory and voltage...
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Launching the System Information To launch System Information, click or tap main menu, then select System Information. Viewing the CPU information Click or tap the CPU tab to view the motherboard's information. 4.4.6 System Information This utility allows you get the detailed information of the AI Suite 3 Viewing the motherboard information Click or tap the MB tab to view the processor's information. Chapter 4 4-20 Chapter 4: Software support on the top-right corner of the motherboard, CPU, and memory settings.
Launching the System Information To launch System Information, click or tap main menu, then select System Information. Viewing the CPU information Click or tap the CPU tab to view the motherboard's information. 4.4.6 System Information This utility allows you get the detailed information of the AI Suite 3 Viewing the motherboard information Click or tap the MB tab to view the processor's information. Chapter 4 4-20 Chapter 4: Software support on the top-right corner of the motherboard, CPU, and memory settings.