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Check the heatsinks, pretty cool design. Take note of the metal covers on the primary x16 PCI-Express slots as they show off a bit. They provide sturdier and stronger slots, handy for very heavy graphics cards. 

Obviously the elephant in the room, the X570 motherboards mostly all have an active fan for the chipset. This MSI one I rate as very silent as it was passive pretty much all the time. Only during bootup, you'll hear it for a couple of seconds, and that was it. Most manufacturers will also offer RPM setting available from the BIOS to regulate this at your preference.

Underneath the VRM heatsinks, the power demands of higher core counts are dealt with 14+4+1 phases IR digital VRM. You'll get two 8-pin power headers, you could use just one of course. The audio chips (yes pleural) used are the Realtek ALC1220 that offers 7.1-channel High Definition audio. The board supports Optical S/PDIF output. An ESS E9018 Codec Supports 6.3mm Gold-plated stereo headphone out.

MSI includes extras, that is the 10 Gbps LAN Aquantia controller I was talking about. The motherboard itself has 2.5 Gbps embedded, as well as 1 Gbps and thus WIFI6. We are a bit clueless as to why a single 10 Gbps is not mounted into the motherboard and replace that 2.5 Gbps jack other then the rest is KillerNIC and thus teamable.

The MEG X570 Godlike bundles the M.2 XPANDER-Z Gen4 card offers an extra two Gen 4 full speed slots. So if you wanted too, you could get a total of five M2 units installed on this setup. Yep extreme and premium. It is really properly designed as well with heatsinks and a cooler. The cooler can be turned off btw with the help of a microswitch. You can opt to use a 6-pin power header to feed this unit from the power supply, if not it'll feed off the PCIe slot.