Once we flip the board around once more we stumble into the DIMM slots, DDR3 of course. It really is a bit of a shame that Intel decided to leave Triple channel memory only available to P55 related products. Then again, the new point to point interface on the Core i5/i7 series will maximize bandwidth, and even at dual-channel with Core i5, that will be an lot of bandwidth alright.

Up-to 16GB may be installed and the board will actually support up-to 1600 MHz straight out of the BIOS, and then some more when you overclock on the base-clock.

Overall board design is great by the way. Everything is position really well. But let's move onward to the left side where we stumble into a bunch of SATA connectors unfortunately not the 90 degree bend connectors however I'm happy to report that the way they are positioned they will not block graphics cards, even dual-slot ones. In total we get an astonishing 6x SATA II ports and then at the back panel we one eSATA port.

All the way to the left a diagnostic POST LED display, capable of displaying status and error codes. 

Always good to see, a power on/off button, reset micro switch and CLEAR CMOS button.