The motherboard piece by piece

When we zoom in on the frontpanel header block we see that everything is nicely color-coded and noted down on the PCB including the frontpanel headers.

PCI slots wise we get three mechanical x16 PCie slots which can be configured as x16/x16 and x16/x8/x8 There are two PCie x1 slots and one regular PCI slot.

Check that out, no more realtek codecs, finally a manufacturer that has the balls to go a little more extreme. That's a 20k@ Creative labs Audio processor, the X-Fi, the memory next to it even indicates some extra memory for the DAP. Pretty much you have a fully fetched soundcard on-board with access to the entire Creative labs audio software suite, and that is just great. See them yellow and right from iT green capacitors? These are quality Nichicon MUSE ES series and MW series Bi-Polarized audio capacitors COVERING each channel layout.