The typical inclusion of SATA ports is six, but ASRock, as we’ve seen on a few of their motherboards, like to include 8 or 10. With the Steel Legend, you’ll get 8 to play with in a 90° arrangement.


In a small, isolated section of the motherboard in the bottom-left, where the isolation helps to reduce any interference from nearby components, is the onboard audio solution. ASRock have used the Purity Sound 4 audio combination using the Realtek ALC1220 audio codec.


Finally moving round to the rear I/O, with it’s integrated I/O shield to save you from forgetting to install it, we find this is very reasonably equipped for a mid-range motherboard at this price-point.
Starting from the left, we get the following:

- 1 x HDMI Port
- 1 x DisplayPort 1.2
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port
- 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A Port (10 Gb/s) (Supports ESD Protection)
- 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C Port (10 Gb/s) (Supports ESD Protection)
- 6 x USB 3.2 Gen1 Ports (Supports ESD Protection)*
- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
- 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
- HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone (Gold Audio Jacks)

We also mentioned the M.2 WiFi slot on the motherboard. ASRock have cut out a pair of antenna slots for cards with antenna cables, instead of using up a PCI-E slot on the case.