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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 has been improved over the previous models. 

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.

 
The audio chip used is the Realtek ALC1220 that offers 7.1-channel High Definition audio, it has been enhanced with some higher grade capacitors as well as WIMA Audio Capacitors (the red ones).