Product Showcase

 

This X470 motherboard will get you six SATA 6 Gb/s storage ports. Sitting left of the primary PCIe x16 slot are two M.2 slots as well, one using x4 PCIe lanes directly from the CPU thus 32 GB/sec of performance, the second at 2x, but is configurable to 4x if you forfeit a SATA port.

Gigabyte is equipping the board with six SATA3 ports. I would have preferred eight for a board of this class, then again, I GBT is already using the PCIe lanes of them for the second M2 slot. BTW to the left a POST diagnostic LED (far right), which will display any error or POST status codes during bootup. 

 
Check those PCIe ports, metal reinfoces LED activated. Very nice. Here you can see both an 8cm and 10cm type 2242/2260/2280/2210 slot. Delivering up to 32 Gb/s data transfer speed per connector. So it supports PCIe 3.0 x4 (Ryzen series processors). Let's take a quick peek under the hood:

As you can see, a huge heatsink with proper thermal padding. If that doesn't cool down a hot M2 SSD, I don't know what will. Very nice and properly implemented really. Extra cooling will make your M2 throttle less under heavy stressed conditions. As our test results show, the second slot looks to be linked to the chipset and offers half the speed at x2 (1250~1500 MB/s). The first one is full speed.

The four memory DIMM slots have been reinforced with metal shielding as well. The board supports single and dual channel with support up-to DDR4 2933 MHz and starts at 2133 MHz memory modules (JEDEC). 4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets can support up to 64 GB of system memory. BTW Gigabyte supports OC memory up-to 3600 MHz XMP ;)