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 Here we stumble into a plethora of things. First up, the DIMM slots, DDR3 of course. Up-to 16GB may be installed and the board will actually support 2133 MHz straight out of the BIOS (though overclocked) supported are DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600*/1800*/2133*(OC). AMDs BEMP profiles are detected properly and if desired, optionally activated. What you'll notice is that everything is just positioned really well. But let's zoom in a little.

You'll have eight SATA connectors. Six of them SATA 6G, then one SATA2 and an on the rear IO there is another (external) eSATA2 connector. You'll have plenty of options for SSD/HDD/ODD connectivity alright, summing up to eight SATA ports.

The little buttons to the lower left are touch buttons, we'll discuss them later.

We flip the board around again 90 degrees and stumble into internal low-level connectivity like front panel headers, fan headers and more USB headers.  We also see the five PCIe x16 Gen2 slots here (can be setup as 2x16, 2x8, 1x4). There's also one PCI slot and one x1 PCIe slot. That's pretty darn nice connectivity alright.