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Take note of the metal covers on the primary and secondary x16 PCI-Express slots. They provide sturdier and stronger slots, handy for very heavy graphics cards.

  
There is quite some attention to detail in the CPU area, it's clear that the VRM design is powerful, it is a 16 Power Phase design with 60A chokes and dual-stack MOSFETs which are covered by a proper heatsink. Temps under tweaked stress remain really cool, we'll check that out in the overclocking chapter.

So here we can spot the PCI-Express slots a bit better. 3x 16 and two PCIe 2.0 x1 slots. One graphics cards used would configure at a full x16 PCIe Gen 3.0 lanes. If you go SLI your cards will be configured as x8/x8 though. The lower black x16 slot, in fact only is offering x4. You'll get two PCIe 1x slots as well. And look att he funky chipset heatsink.

 
The audio chip used is the Realtek ALC1220 that offers 7.1-channel High Definition audio, Purity Sound4 is a combination of several hardware, software audio solutions. 7.1 CH HD audio with the latest Realtek ALC1220 audio codec, individual PCB layers for R/L audio channel, 120dB SNR DAC and other technologies to deliver good sound effects.