Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 motherboard review - Product Showcase

 
When we place the motherboard in an angle we see the socket LGA2066. It will support both Kaby and Skylake-X procs, this is referred to as the Core X series processors. The board has an 8-pin power header for the processor.

 
Storage ports then -- Gigabyte is equipping the board with eight SATA3 ports. There's no fuzz with weird U2 or SATA Express connectors. See the 4-pin connector left from the SATA ports? That's the Intel VROC Upgrade Key header.
 

 
Here we see that a bit better. Just a proper eight SATA3 6Gbps ports, alongside two M2 slots that have been tucked away close to upper PCI-Express slot. See that in the photo below.  
 

 
There are two M2 SSD slots available, one 8cm type type 2242/2260/2280 and another 10cm type 2260/2280/22110 sslot. Both support  PCIe x4/x2 Gen 3.0. With two NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 connectors onboard, AORUS brings to the user PCI-Express connectivity for SSD devices. Delivering up to 32 Gb/s data transfer speed per connector, the dual M.2 supports RAID modes.
 

 
The memory DIMM slots have been reinforced with metal shielding as well. As stted on the previous page it supports single, dual and quad channel with support up-to DDR4 4333 (O.C.) and starts at 2133 MHz memory modules. 8 x DDR4 DIMM sockets can sport up-to 128 GB of system memory.