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The motherboard follows a standard ATX form factor (30.5 x 24.4cm). The motherboard is located in the ROG high-end range of the Ryzen Zen+ desktop processor product stack.
With the 470 board ASUS outs a high-end class product, it has plentiful enough features to keep you busy for a while. PCIe 3.0 then, Ryzen has 24 of them yet 4 are being used to interface with the chipset. Then depending on the chipset used it adds gen 2.0 PCIe lanes through the chipset. But yes, the Ryzen processor has its own 16 PCIe Gen 3 lanes available for your graphics solution. The board has been fitted with AURA LED RGB activity available, all were kept subtle and can be configured on/off/animated and RGB colored. The two primary graphics slots have metal shielding.
The motherboard includes all of the standardized X470 chipset options with two full speed M.2 SSD slots, it is SLI and Crossfire compatible as well, one x16 slot (configured as Gen 3 x16 on the first slot, the second is Gen 3 x8). The board follows standard ATX Form Factor.
The I/O back panel reveals several USB 3.1 ports. The audio unit has special noise-reducing capacitors and shielding on top of that Realtek chip S1220). You will spot one 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet jack. Now included (back) is a PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo port. Included are optical S/PDIF out port and five analog audio jacks. BTW I am loving the integrated backplate IO cover.
The board comes with one 8-pin power connector. There's also LED enablement on (and under) the board, as well as RGB, LED strip connectors you can configure with ASUS software. The board has 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots which can be arranged in these slot configurations with graphics cards:
- 1-way mode - x16 / x0 / x0
- 2-way mode - x8 / x8 / x0
- 3-way mode - x8 / x8 / x4
As you can see, these are PCI Express Gen 3.0 configurations, that's plenty for regular graphics card setups up-to 2-way SLI/Crossfire. You'll get four DIMM slots that can be used for up-to 64GB of dual-channel memory. With regular Ryzen procs, up-to 3200 MHz is supported in OC mode, with the new Zen+ models 3466 MHz is supported. Please do check compatible memory and thus the QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists).