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The X370 motherboard will get you six SATA 6 Gb/s storage ports. Combined in here is a full M.2 PCI Express slot using x4 PCIe lanes directly from the CPU thus 32 GB/sec of performance. We'll have a look at that in the tests. There are plenty of USB 3.0 and 3.1 ports available through internal motherboard connectors, some AMD Ryzen based, some chipset and also a fast Asmedia ASM2142 powered one. USB 3.1 Gen 2 would be the fastest 10 Gbps connectors. 

 
Here we can see the four DIMM slots which offer support for dual-channel DDR4 memory up to an advertised 3200 MHz (OC). You can install a maximum of 64 GB in total. Given the nature of Ryzen and its CCX interconnect tied to the memory speed, we do recommend high- or higher frequency memory. Please make sure you get a 2667 MHz kit or faster. MSI offers 'XMP' support, you however might be better off configuring memory yourself. So in the BIOS set a 2667 MHz frequency (if you bought that), insert the advertised timings and voltage as noted on the DDR sticker. We'll talk a little more about memory support in the memory benchmark segment of this article though.

This board supports up to 3 full length discrete VGA cards. Mind you, we can only recommend you go with 2x multi-GPU. Three cards would bog down the 3rd card at a x4 Gen 2 link where two cards (the grey slots) would both get x8 Gen 3.0 PCIe links. The audio solution is based on a Realtek ALC 892 CODEC combined with a software suite, check below.

 

 
If you look closely you can spot high audio grade capacitors. Nichicon Fine Gold capacitors are suited for high-grade audio equipment to provide rich sound in the bass and clearer high frequencies.