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Chapter 1: Product introduction
Chapter 1
1.1.2 ROG Gaming Features
SupremeFX Impact
The bundled SupremeFX Impact sound card brings you the best-in-class 115dB SNR sound
for your motherboard in mini-ITX form factor. Its exclusive differential circuit design and four
Op-Amps ensure lossless multi-channel gaming audio with exceptional clarity and delity.
The audiophile-grade TI LM4562 Op-Amp, one of the four Op-Amps, boosts high-end
headphone enjoyment of up to 600ohm impedance, ner detail, and stronger bass.
The Music PnP function provides you with a true home entertainment media center, allowing
you to stream audio les to your computer’s speakers via the front panel’s MIC-IN port. It
allows you to enjoy listening to your favorite tracks when your computer is turned off.
Sonic Radar
Sonic Radar, an audio app designed for First Person Shooting (FPS) games, shows the
precise direction and intensity of where a sound is coming from. In-game sound including
gunshots, footprints, voice call-outs, or even a ticking bomb, is visualized as radar signals
on the Sonic Radar display, providing you the advantage to know potential threats and avoid
sneaky surprises.
GameFirst II
ASUS GameFirst II, with cFOS Trafc Shaping technology, provides a powerful and user-
friendly network control to easily frag your gaming system. Featuring the EZ Mode for
beginners’ setup and Advanced Mode for professionals’ tweaking, your frags comes rst.
Intel Gigabit LAN
The LAN solution from Intel has been long known to have a better throughput, lower CPU
utilization as well as better stability. With the Intel Gigabit LAN solutions onboard, the
ultimate network experience can therefore be delivered to its users like never before.
1.1.3 ROG Exclusive Features
Impact Power
The Impact Power vertical architecture provides you the same vaunted overvolting and
overclocking exibilities just like any othe ROG boards - without sacricing stability,
overclocking, and precision on mini-ITX form factor. For precise CPU/memory digital power
control, Impact Power utilizes the best components such as BlackWing chokes, special n
design, and super-premium 10K black metallic solid state capacitors.
BlackWing chokes can handle as much as 60A of power, which is twice that of generic
chokes.The special n design, with its highly conductive and efcient gold-treated coating,
results in 3-5C lower choke temperatures for added stability and ensures minimal-loss power
delivery. Super-premium 10K Black Metallic solid state capacitors are forged for overclocking
and the most extreme demands, lasting up to ve times longer than generic capacitors with
20% wider temperature tolerance.