ASUS Z170 lineup to have same color scheme as the X99 series

TPU writes the upcoming Z170 motherboard lineup from ASUS will come with the same black + glossy white color scheme as the company's mainline X99 series. Pictured below is the Z170-Pro, a premium upper-mid segment LGA1151 motherboard expected to retail in the $170 to $190 price range. It has 16-phase CPU VRM with a new heatsink design and four DDR4 memory slots that support up to 64GB of dual-channel DDR4-3000 memory.

Expansion slots include three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (x16/NC/NC or x8/x8/NC or x8/x4/x4), and four PCI-Express 2.0 x1. Storage connectivity includes eight SATA 6 Gb/s, from which two wire out as a SATA-Express 16 Gb/s slot; and an M.2 slot. Other modern connectivity includes two USB 3.1 ports, eight USB 3.0 ports, two Intel-driven gigabit Ethernet interfaces, 802.11 ac WLAN with Bluetooth 4.0, and Crystal Sound 2 audio (115 dBA SNR CODEC, ground-layer isolation, audio-grade capacitors, EMI shielding, and DTS Ultra PC II).