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Check the heatsinks, pretty cool design. Take note of the metal cover 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 ASRock one I rate as medium silent. The latest firmware updates, default towards a more silent mode and you can select profiles or manually configure it. At bootup (system post) you can hear the fan every now and then and in that stage, it is not a silent solution. So apply a low as possible RPM to it. ASRock could/should have used a more silent fan. Underneath the chunky VRM heatsinks, the power demands of higher core counts are dealt with by 10 phases. Since the procs are so difficult to overclock, VRM heating up ironically is not an issue anymore. Then again, with the pending 16-core part, I do like a proper VRM design.

The motherboard also offers AX WIFI, also known as WIFI-6, it's the best the market can offer but obviously also requires an AX router. Of course, all underlying compatible modes like AC are supported 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. You can spot higher audio grade capacitors, suited for high-grade audio equipment to provide rich sound in the bass range and clearer high frequencies. Yeah, check out that puppy, that is as fast and versatile as an enthusiast-class X570 motherboard.