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The X370 motherboard will get you no less than 10 SATA 6 Gb/s storage ports. Eight from the chipset, two from the ASMedia ASM1061 controller.

Combined in here is a full M.2 PCI Express slot using x4 PCIe lanes directly from the CPU, thus 32 Gb/s of performance. There is a second one as well, using a x4 PCIe lane link at 20 Gb/s, less bandwidth but it should still be plenty fast. We'll have a look at that in the tests. There are plenty of USB 3.0 and 3.1 ports available through internal motherboard connectors, USB 3.1 Gen 2 would be the fastest 10 Gbps connectors. 

 
Here we can see the four DIMM slots which offer support for dual-channel DDR4 memory up to an advertised 3200 MHz (OC). You can install a maximum of 64 GB in total. Given the nature of Ryzen and its CCX interconnect tied to the memory speed, we do recommend high-frequency memory. Please make sure you get a 2667 MHz kit or faster. Some motherboard partners offer 'XMP' support, you however are best off configuring memory yourself. So in the BIOS set (if you bought that) a 2667 MHz frequency, insert the advertised timings and voltage as noted on the DDR sticker.

This board has support for up to 3 full length discrete VGA cards. Mind you, we can only recommend you to go with 2x multi-GPU. Three cards would bog down the 3rd card at a x4 Gen 2 link where two cards (the grey slots) would both get x8 Gen 3.0 PCIe links. The audio solution is based on a Realtek ALC 1220 CODEC in combination with a Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 3 software suite. If you look closely you can spot high grade audio capacitors. Nichicon Fine Gold capacitors are suited for high-grade audio equipment to provide rich sound in the bass range and clearer high frequencies. Also embedded is a TI NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier for Front Panel Audio Connector (Supports up to 600 Ohm headsets).

It is a bit hard to see on the above photo, but here you can see the two M.2 slots. The one labeled 'Ultra M.2' is the proper fast one. NVMe M.2 SSDs on a x4 link are really fast on this platform as our results will show. 

No more SATA Express connectors. Yay!  

• 8 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug
• 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug
• 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket (M2_1), supports M Key type 2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)*
• 1 x M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x4 (20 Gb/s)*

* if M2_2 is occupied, PCIE5 slot will be disabled