Zotac, mostly known for video cards, nettopsystemen and itx motherboards, it would be in the short term is making a comeback on the market of atx-motherboards. The manufacturer would be a high-end motherboard in the larger atx-format release.
The atx board, that has the name ZT-Z68 Crown Edition-U1DU3 seems to get going, is based on the lga1155 socket for Sandy Bridge processors and the Z68 chipset on board. They can be used not only in the processor built-in gpu used to be, but can also be a loose video card can be added. Thanks to a Nvidia bridgechip, four pci-express slots for video cards be used for quad-sli and crossfire setups. A total of 32 pci-express lanes to the four pci-express-x16-slots to be divided. In addition, even a single pci-express x1 slot and a pci slot available for expansion.
The black finished system board includes eight sata ports in a mix of sata-300 and sata-600 ports. There is also a msata slot, and an esata port are present, as are six usb 3.0 ports, two on the i/o shield. The board is intended for overclockers and gamers, with a focus on the second group of the 24-phase power supply for the processor can take advantage. The memory has its own two-stage power supply. To failed overklokpogingen to cope, there are three uefi chips, the modern equivalent of a bios on the board.
The connectors on the back of the board include achtkanaalsgeluid, the previously mentioned two usb 3.0 and esata port, a gigabitnetwerkpoort and four usb 2.0 ports. Video of the in the cpu integrated gpu can be via a displayport, dvi, or hdmi port will be carried out. Finally, a wi-fi network card on the board made which the antenna connector next to the ps/2 port are made. A price or availability of the board is not known. 
