ASRock Z87 Extreme3: instruction

Version 1.0

Published April 2013

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Z87 Extreme3

Motherboard Layout

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No. Description

1 ATX 12V Power Connector (ATX12V1)

2 Chassis Fan Connector (CHA_FAN2)

3 CPU Fan Connector (CPU_FAN1)

4 CPU Fan Connector (CPU_FAN2)

5 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM Slots (DDR3_A1, DDR3_B1)

6 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM Slots (DDR3_A2, DDR3_B2)

7 ATX Power Connector (ATXPWR1)

8 USB 3.0 Header (USB3_4_5)

9 SATA3 Connectors (SATA3_0_1)

10 SATA3 Connectors (SATA3_2_3)

11 SATA3 Connectors (SATA3_4_5)

12 System Panel Header (PANEL1)

13 Power LED Header (PLED1)

14 Clear CMOS Jumper (CLRCMOS1)

15 Chassis Fan Connector (CHA_FAN1)

16 USB 2.0 Header (USB2_3)

17 USB 2.0 Header (USB4_5)

18 Chassis Speaker Header (SPEAKER1)

19 SPDIF Out Connector (SPDIF_OUT1)

20 Infrared Module Header (IR1)

21 COM Port Header (COM1)

22 Front Panel Audio Header (HD_AUDIO1)

23 Power Fan Connector (PWR_FAN1)

24 Chassis Fan Connector (CHA_FAN3)

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Z87 Extreme3

I/O Panel

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1 2 3 5

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No. Description No. Description

1 USB 2.0 Ports (USB01) 8 Microphone (Pink)

2 VGA Port 9 Optical SPDIF Out Port

3 LAN RJ-45 Port* 10 USB 3.0 Ports (USB3_23)

4 Central / Bass (Orange) 11 USB 3.0 Ports (USB3_01)

5 Rear Speaker (Black) 12 HDMI Port

6 Line In (Light Blue) 13 DVI-D Port

7 Front Speaker (Lime)** 14 PS/2 Keyboard Port

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* ere are two LEDs on each LAN port. Please refer to the table below for the LAN port LED indications.

ACT/LINK LED

SPEED LED

LAN Port

Activity / Link LED Speed LED

Status Description Status Description

O No Link O 10Mbps connection

Blinking Data Activity Orange 100Mbps connection

On Link Green 1Gbps connection

** If you use a 2-channel speaker, please connect the speaker’s plug into “Front Speaker Jack”. See the table below

for connection details in accordance with the type of speaker you use.

Audio Output

Front Speaker

Rear Speaker

Central / Bass

Line In

Channels

(No. 7)

(No. 5)

(No. 4)

(No. 6)

2 V -- -- --

4 V V -- --

6 V V V --

8 V V V V

To enable Multi-Streaming, you need to connect a front panel audio cable to the front

panel audio header. Aer restarting your computer, you will nd the “Mixer” tool on your

system. Please select “Mixer ToolBox” , click “Enable playback multi-streaming”, and

click “ok”. Choose “2CH”, “4CH”, “6CH”, or “8CH” and then you are allowed to select

“Realtek HDA Primary output” to use the Rear Speaker, Central/Bass, and Front Speaker,

or select “Realtek HDA Audio 2nd output” to use the front panel audio.

*** e eSATA connector supports SATA with cables within 1 meters.

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Z87 Extreme3

Chapter 1 Introduction

ank you for purchasing ASRock Z87 Extreme3 motherboard, a reliable

motherboard produced under ASRock’s consistently stringent quality control.

It delivers excellent performance with robust design conforming to ASRock’s

commitment to quality and endurance.

In this manual, Chapter 1 and 2 contains the introduction of the motherboard

and step-by-step installation guides. Chapter 3 contains the operation guide of the

soware and utilities. Chapter 4 contains the conguration guide of the BIOS setup.

Because the motherboard specications and the BIOS soware might be updated, the

content of this documentation will be subject to change without notice. In case any modi-

cations of this documentation occur, the updated version will be available on ASRock’s

website without further notice. If you require technical support related to this mother-

board, please visit our website for specic information about the model you are using. You

may nd the latest VGA cards and CPU support list on ASRock’s website as well. ASRock

website http://www.asrock.com.

1.1 Package Contents

• ASRock Z87 Extreme3 Motherboard (ATX Form Factor)

• ASRock Z87 Extreme3 Quick Installation Guide

• ASRock Z87 Extreme3 Support CD

• 2 x Serial ATA (SATA) Data Cables (Optional)

• 1 x I/O Panel Shield

• 1 x ASRock SLI_Bridge_2S Card

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1.2 Specications

Platform

• ATX Form Factor

• Premium Gold Capacitor design (100% Japan-made high-

quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors)

A-Style

• Home Cloud

CPU

• Supports 4th Generation Intel® CoreTM i7 / i5 / i3 / Xeon® /

Pentium® / Celeron® in LGA1150 Package

• Digi Power Design

• 8 Power Phase Design

®

• Supports Intel

Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology

®

• Supports Intel

K-Series unlocked CPU

• Supports ASRock BCLK Full-range Overclocking

®

Chipset

• Intel

Z87

Memory

• Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Technology

• 4 x DDR3 DIMM slots

• Supports DDR3 2933+(OC)/2800(OC)/2400(OC)/2133(OC)/

1866(OC)/1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buered memory

• Max. capacity of system memory: 32GB

(see CAUTION)

®

• Supports Intel

Extreme Memory Prole (XMP)1.3/1.2

Expansion

• 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE3: single at x16

Slot

(PCIE2); dual at x8 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE3))

• 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots

• 3 x PCI slots

TM

TM

• Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX

and CrossFireX

TM

TM

• Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI

and SLI

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Z87 Extreme3

Graphics

• Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals and the VGA outputs can

be supported only with processors which are GPU integrated.

• Supports Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals : Intel® Quick

Sync Video with AVC, MVC (S3D) and MPEG-2 Full

HW Encode1, Intel® InTruTM 3D, Intel® Clear Video HD

Technology, Intel® InsiderTM, Intel® HD Graphics 4400/4600

• Pixel Shader 5.0, DirectX 11.1

• Max. shared memory 1792MB

• ree VGA Output options: D-sub, DVI-D, and HDMI

• Supports Triple Monitors

• Supports HDMI Technology with max. resolution up to 4K ×

2K (4096x2304) @ 24Hz

• Supports DVI-D with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @

60Hz

• Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @

60Hz

• Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and

HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI (Compliant HDMI

monitor is required)

• Supports HDCP function with DVI-D and HDMI ports

• Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) playback with DVI-D

and HDMI ports

Audio

• 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892

Audio Codec)

• Premium Blu-ray audio support

LAN

• Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s

• Giga PHY Intel® I217V

• Supports Intel® Remote Wake Technology

• Supports Wake-On-LAN

• Supports Energy Ecient Ethernet 802.3az

• Supports PXE

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ASRock FAN-Tastic Tuning

ASRock FAN-Tastic Tuning is included in A-Tuning. Congure up to ve dierent

fan speeds using the graph. e fans will automatically shi to the next speed level

when the assigned temperature is met.

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