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The motherboard follows a standard ATX form factor (30.4 x 24.3cm). The motherboard is located in a gaming range of the Skylake and Kaby Lake desktop processor product stack. 

With the Z270, SuperMicro tries to release a somewhat budget friendly product, yet with enough features to keep you satisfied. You get two M2 slots and even two U2 slots alongside 6 SATA3 connectors for example.
  

Included with the motherboard are the regulars including; manuals, driver CDs, SATA cables and a rear I/O plate. It also has a couple of new features which we'll talk about in-depth in this review. 
 

• CPU support: Skylake / Kaby Lake class Intel Core processors
• Chipset: Intel Z270 Chipset
• 1x Gigabit: Ethernet Intel Gbe I219-V
• Storage: 
  • 2 x M.2 Socket connectors (PCIe 3.0 x /& Optane supported)
  • 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors 
  • 2 x U2 PCIe 3.0 x4
• Connectivity: 
  • 3x PCI-E 3.0 x16  (single at x16 / dual at x8 / triple at x8 - x8 - x4)
  • 3x PCI-E 3.0 x1
• USB 3.0 / 3.1 
• 8-channel ALC 1150 Realtek chip

The I/O back panel reveals 3.1/3.0/2.0 ports. The audio unit has special noise reducing capacitors and shielding on top of the Realtek chip. You will spot one 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet jack. Included is a PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo port, optical S/PDIF out port and five analog audio jacks. If you plan to use the integrated IGP of the processor, you can make use of one DP, HDMI or DVI-D connector. 
  

The board has 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots which can be arranged in these slot configurations with graphics cards:

• 1-way mode - x16 / x0 / x0 
• 2-way mode - x8 / x8 / x0
• 3-way mode - x8 / x8 / x4

As you can see, these are PCI Express Gen 3.0 configurations, that's plenty for regular graphics card setups up-to 2-way SLI/Crossfire. The motherboard comes with one 8-pin power connector. You'll get four DIMM slots that can be used for up-to 64GB of dual-channel memory up-to 2400 MHz, XMP OC supported).