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

  
There is quite some attention to detail in the CPU area. If you count along with me, the CPU alone has twelve power phases, which is similar to the X370 model.

Three x16 and three 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.

 
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 Nichicon audio grade (or at least something similar looking) fine capacitors, suited for high-grade audio equipment to provide rich sound in the bass range and clearer high frequencies. There's little else to say really, the audio solution looks lovely. 

A 4-pin and 8-pin connector to power that processor of yours, just using the 8-pin connector is plenty though, in fact using just one 4-pin would do the job already. The motherboard has a 12 phase power delivery design for the processor based on digital power controllers. 

For a bit of variety, some reviews we'll perform with liquid cooling, others the standard stock cooler so you know what you can expect. The C7H is cooled with an EK LCS kit, we'll use the Ryzen 7 2700X in all reviews. All reviews will be tested at 3200 MHz, the reference frequency for all our CPU reviews (including both AMD and Intel).