Asrock W480 CREATOR, W480, 4xDDR4, HDMI, M.2, ATX

Supports 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors, 11th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors and Xeon® W Processors (WE3/WE2/WE1)(Socket 1200), up to 10 Cores and 125W*
Supports DDR4 4600MHz+ (OC)
3 PCIe 3.0 x16, 2 PCIe 2.0 x1
8 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4), 2 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
2 Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 Type-C
5 USB 3.2 Gen2 10Gb/s (Front : 1 Type-C, Rear : 1 Type-C, 3 Type-A)
8 USB 3.2 Gen1 (4 Front, 4 Rear)
7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
ESS SABRE 9218 DAC (130dB SNR) + WIMA Audio Caps
AQUANTIA® / Marvell 10 Gigabit LAN + Intel® 2.5 Gigabit LAN
Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax (2.4Gbps)
*Updated BIOS is required for compatibility.

Unique Feature
ASRock USB 3.2 Gen2
- ASRock Front Panel USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C Header (10 Gb/s)
- ASRock USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A Port (10 Gb/s)
- ASRock USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C Port (10 Gb/s)
ASRock Super Alloy
- XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink
- Premium 60A Power Choke
- 50A Dr.MOS
- Premium Memory Alloy Choke (Reduces 70% core loss compared to iron powder choke)
- Combo Caps (Nichicon 12K Black Caps)
- Nichicon 12K Black Caps (100% Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors)
- Matte Black PCB
- High Density Glass Fabric PCB
- 2oz Copper PCB Server-Grade Low-Loss PCB
AQUANTIA® / Marvell 10G LAN
Intel® 2.5G LAN Intel® 802.11ax WiFi
ASRock Steel Slots
ASRock Full Coverage M.2 Heatsink
ASRock Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
ASRock Ultra USB Power
ASRock Full Spike Protection (for all USB, Audio, LAN Ports)
ASRock Live Update & APP Shop
CPU
- Supports 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors, 11th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors and Xeon® W Processors (WE3/WE2/WE1)(Socket 1200), up to 10 Cores and 125W
- Digi Power design
- 16 Power Phase design
- Supports Intel® Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Technology
- Supports Intel® K-Series CPUs
- Supports ASRock Hyper BCLK Engine III
Chipset
- Intel® W480
Memory
- Dual Channel DDR4 Memory Technology
- 4 x DDR4 DIMM Slots
- Supports DDR4 4600+(OC)* / 4500 / 4400 / 4333/4266(OC) / 4133(OC) / 4000(OC) / 3866(OC) / 3800(OC) / 3733(OC) / 3600(OC) / 3200(OC) / 2933 / 2800 / 2666 / 2400 / 2133 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
- Supports ECC UDIMM memory modules with Intel® Xeon® processors
- Supports DDR4 ECC, un-buffered memory with Intel® Xeon® processors W series in the LGA 1200 Socket
- Max. capacity of system memory: 128GB** (with 10th Gen and Xeon® CPU)
- Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 2.0
- 15µ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots

*Please refer to Memory Support List on ASRock's website for more information.
Xeon® W(WE3/WE2) support DDR4 up to 2933, Xeon® W(WE1) support DDR4 up to 2666.

**Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® 32-bit OS. For Windows® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation.
BIOS
- 256Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support
- ACPI 6.0 Compliant wake up events
- SMBIOS 2.7 Support
- CPU Core/Cache, GT, DRAM, VPPM,VTTDDR, VCCSFR, VCCPLL_OC, PCH Voltage, VCCIO, VCCST, VCCSA, VPERGCOMP, CPU Internal PLL, GT PLL, Ring PLL, System Agent PLL, Memory Controller PLL Voltage Multi-adjustment
Graphics
- Hardware Accelerated Codecs: AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265 8bit, HEVC/H.265 10bit, VP8, VP9 8bit, VP9 10bit, MPEG 2, MJPEG, VC-1*
- Graphics, Media & Compute: Microsoft® DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, Intel® Built In Visuals, Intel® Quick Sync Video, Hybrid / Switchable Graphics, OpenCL 2.1
- Display & Content Security: Rec. 2020 (Wide Color Gamut), Microsoft® PlayReady 3.0, Intel® SGX Content Protection, UHD Blu-ray Disc
- Supports HDMI 1.4 with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096x2160) @ 30Hz
- Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI 1.4 Port (Compliant HDMI monitor is required)
- Supports HDCP 2.3 with HDMI 1.4 Port
- Supports 4K Ultra HD (UHD) playback with HDMI 1.4 Port

*Intel® UHD Graphics Built-in Visuals and the VGA outputs can be supported only with processors which are GPU integrated.

**VP9 10bit and VC-1 are for decode only.* VP8 and VP9 encode are not supported by Windows® OS.
Audio
- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
- Premium Blu-ray Audio support
- Supports Surge Protection
- WIMA Audio Capacitors (For Front Outputs)
- ESS SABRE9218 DAC for Front Panel Audio (130dB SNR)
- Pure Power-In
- Direct Drive Technology
- PCB Isolate Shielding
- Impedance Sensing on Rear Out port
- Individual PCB Layers for R/L Audio Channel
- Gold Audio Jacks
- 15µ Gold Audio Connector
- Nahimic Audio
LAN
1 x 10 Gigabit LAN 100/1000/2500/5000/10000 Mb/s (AQUANTIA® / Marvell AQC107):
- Supports Wake-On-LAN
- Supports Lightning/ESD Protection
- Supports PXE
1 x 2.5 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000/2500 Mb/s (Intel® I225LM)
- Supports Wake-On-LAN
- Supports Lightning/ESD Protection
- Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az
- Supports PXE
Wireless LAN
- Intel® 802.11ax WiFi Module
- Supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ax
- Supports Dual-Band (2.4/5 GHz)
- Supports WiFi6 802.11ax (2.4Gbps)
- 2 antennas to support 2 (Transmit) x 2 (Receive) diversity technology
- Supports Bluetooth 5.1 + High speed class II
- Supports MU-MIMO
Slots
- 3 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots (PCIE1/PCIE4/PCIE5: single at x16 (PCIE1); dual at x8 (PCIE1) / x8 (PCIE4); triple at x8 (PCIE1) / x8 (PCIE4) / x4 (PCIE5))*
- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 Slots
- Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, 3-Way CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
- Supports NVIDIA® Quadro graphics cards
- 1 x Vertical M.2 Socket (Key E) with the bundled WiFi-802.11ax PCIe WiFi module (on the rear I/O)
- 15µ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE1 and PCIE4)

*PCIE5, M2_3 and SATA3_3 share lanes. If either one of them is in use, the others will be disabled.
Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
Storage
- 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid St