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The motherboard follows a standard ATX form factor (30.5 x 24.4cm). The motherboard is located in the TUF mainstream range of the Ryzen Zen+ desktop processor product stack. You'll spot this X470 mobo for 159 EUR/USD.

Size	ATX
Chipset	AMD 470
Memory	4 x DDR4 up to 32000(with Zen+) Original Ryzen up to 3200 MHz
Multi-GPU	CrossFireX, 2 x SLI
Expansion	PCIe 3.0 x16 (CPU): 2 (x16/x4) PCIe 2.0 x1 (Chipset): 3
Storage	2 x M.2 (NVMe x4) 6 x SATA 6Gbps
Networking	Realtek Gigabit Ethernet
Audio	Realtek ALC 884
USB	AMD Ryzen™ 2nd Generation/ Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics/ Ryzen™ 1st Generation/7th Generation A-Series/Athlon X4 Processors :  2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 port(s) (2 at back panel, , Type-A) AMD Ryzen™ 2nd Generation/ Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics/ Ryzen™ 1st Generation/7th Generation A-Series/Athlon X4 Processors :  1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 port(s) (1 at back panel, , USB Type-CTM) AMD X470 chipset :  2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 port(s) (2 at back panel, ) AMD X470 chipset :  4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 port(s) (4 at mid-board) AMD X470 chipset :  6 x USB 2.0 port(s) (2 at back panel, , 4 at mid-board)
Aura	1X Aura addressable and 2 x RGB strip headers

With the 470 board ASUS outs a mainstream class product, it has 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 primary graphics slot has 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 Gen2 x4 (!).  The board follows standard ATX Form Factor.

The I/O back panel reveals several USB 3.1 ports. The audio unit based on Realtek 887). You will spot one 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet jack from Realtek. Included (back) is a PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo port. Missing is optical S/PDIF out port and five analog audio jacks, you get just three, also lacking is the new integrated backplate IO cover that ASUS is so fond of.

 
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 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots which can be arranged in these slot configurations with graphics cards:

• 1-way mode - x16 / x0
• 2-way mode - x16 / x4

This means the second x16 slot is merely configured as x4 Gen2 lanes linked to the chipset.  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). The board also has some RGB (configurable) options embedded, see below.