Owner's Manual

ASUS Z87-C

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1.3 Central Processing Unit (CPU)

The motherboard comes with a surface mount LGA1150 socket designed for the 4th

generation Intel

Core™ i7 / Intel

Core™ i5 / Intel

Core™ i3, Pentium

and Celeron

processors.

Ensure that all power cables are unplugged before installing the CPU.

Connectors/Jumpers/Slots Page

1. ATX power connectors (24-pin EATXPWR, 8-pin EATX12V) 1-30

2. LGA1150 CPU socket

1-4

3. CPU, CPU optional, and chassis fan connectors (4-pin CPU_FAN,

4-pin CPU_OPT, 4-pin CHA_FAN1-3)

1-32

4. DDR3 DIMM slots

1-8

5. USB 3.0 connector (20-1 pin USB3_12)

1-33

6. Clear RTC RAM jumper

1-27

7. Intel

Z87 Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_1-6 [yellow]) 1-31

8. DRCT (DirectKey) connector (2-pin DRCT)

1-35

9. System panel connector (20-8 pin PANEL)

1-36

10. USB 2.0 connectors (10-1 pin USB910, USB1112, USB1314)

1-34

11. TPM connector (20-1 pin TPM)

1-31

12. DirectKey button

1-25

13. Serial port connector (10-1 pin COM)

1-33

14. Front panel audio connector (10-1 pin AAFP)

1-35

15. Digital audio connector (4-1 pin SPDIF_OUT)

1-29

1.2.4 Layout contents