ASUS Announces B150I Pro Gaming/WiFi/Aura, B150I Pro Gaming/Aura and B150M Pro Gaming
We are entering an exciting era of portable computing (and of course gaming!), where people from around the world are united by devices so small it can take the form of a watch with a quad-core CPU, and hardcore PC gaming can be had with a case the size of a shoebox! You first got a glimpse of the ASUS B150I Pro Gaming/WiFi/Aura just last month at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, today it is already being announced along with two other motherboards for small builds - B150I Pro Gaming/Aura and B150M Pro Gaming! These new mini-ITX and micro-ATX motherboards are based on the Intel B150 chipset to support 6th Gen. Intel Core i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron processors with the LGA1151 socket and DDR4 memory (up to 2133MHz). ASUS B150I Pro Gaming/WiFi/Aura and B150I Pro Gaming/Aura come with the latest Aura RGB lighting effects; as well as the effects previously available, there are now Comet, Flash and Dash, Rainbow Wave, Starry Night and Glowing Yo-Yo. If you are not into the RGB lighting effects, ASUS B150M Pro Gaming is available in a slightly larger and more upgradeable micro-ATX form-factor.
All three boards come with support for M.2 SSDs for transfer speeds of up to 32Gbps,
B150I Pro Gaming/WiFi/Aura
If there's a possibility you may need WiFi, B150I Pro Gaming/WiFi/Aura comes with built-in 2x2 (2T2R) 802.11ac Wi-Fi with Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) for better range and reliability. Later on, you won't need to give up a USB port to get WiFi, on smaller boards there simply isn't that much space for ports.
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B150I Pro Gaming/Aura
If you won't be using wireless, you can make use of the Intel Gigabit Ethernet with LANGuard for surge-protection, you still get all the Aura RGB lighting effects plus you can save money to go towards other components.
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B150M Pro Gaming
If considering a small build with loads of storage and upgradeability, this has four DDR4 slots for up to 64GB of memory, an extra two PCI Express 3.0 x1 slots, and two more SATA 6.0Gbit/s ports.
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There are more back IO USB ports on the B150M Pro Gaming; up to six USB 3.0 Type-A, and up to six USB 2.0 ports.
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