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Right, SATA ports -- ECS is equipping the board with a good seven SATA 6Gbps ports. Most of them come from the Intel PCH and that makes all of these ports SATA 3 and thus 6 GBps capable. The board also has two extra eSATA ports located at ther rear IO. You will get four DIMM slots that offer support for dual-channel DDR3 memory up to 3000 MHz. You can install a maximum of 64GB in total. XML is fully supported, we'll show you this little critter running at 2400 MHz by just flicking a BIOS switch.
Funny to see is that to the left of the SATA connectors you can notice a handful of small LEDs. These are warning LEDs. Should the temperature of the CPU overheat, or Voltages reach dangerous levels, these will emit a watning light.
Small note on the SATA connector pointing upwards ... that's rubbish anno 2013, when you install a graphics card it'll get blocked.
TRI Crossfire/SLI is supported. The PCIe slots however, do not perform in full x16 speeds but rather break down to x16/x0/x0 (single card mode) or x8/x8/x0 (SLI/Crossfire) or x8/x4/x4 (TRI SLI/Crossfire) Modes. So be sure to keep this in mind if you plan on running multiple cards. Still with gen 3.0 connections, that is not an issue whatsoever.