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The motherboard has a 24-pin power connector and an 8-pin power connector, located at the same positions as previous motherboards. The motherboard offers four DIMM slots, resulting in a maximum memory of 128 GB. The main difference lies in the PCI-E slots, where this motherboard comes with two PCI-E 3.0 X16 slots and two PCI-E 3.0 X1 slots. At first sight, it looks like there is only one M.2 slot in the motherboard, however, there is a vertical M.2 slot next to the 24-pin power connector. Also, the motherboard provides six SATA III ports, like the most ATX motherboards. The I/O of the motherboard is somewhat inferior to the Z390-based motherboards and here you get 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, 2 x USB 2.0 ports, a LAN port, 6 x audio ports, a DP port, an HDMI port, and a PS/2 port. There are five fan headers on the motherboard including the AIO pump and the CPU fan, which is satisfactory.  The motherboard uses 8-phase power delivery, which does its...

The motherboard comes with 6 x custom SATA cables, WiFi antenna, streaming card, SLI HB bridge, M.2 Xpander-Z card, 1/4-inch to 3.5mm jack converter, RGB LED extension cable, addressable RGB extension cables, 2 x external temperature probes, case badge, manuals, cable stickers, and GPU poster. These accessories themself cost quite a lot and if you are someone who is not going to use any of these accessories, then perhaps you should look at some other motherboard that is a lot cheaper.  The motherboard has an E-ATX for factor, which makes it larger than the rest of the motherboard on the list and has one 24-pin power connector (next to the DIMM slots), two 8-pin power connectors, present along the VRM and another 6-pin power connector, present along the first M.2 slot. This makes the motherboard capable of handling very heavy power loads. There are five PCI Express slots in the motherboard, where four of them are reinforced with metal and are PCI-E 3.0 X16 while the fifth of them is...

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO is an ATX motherboard and comes with four DIMM slots, which means that with the use of 32 GB sticks you can reach a maximum memory limitation of 128 GB. As for the PCI Express slots, there are five of them, among which three are PCI Express 3.0 X16 and three are 3.0 X1. This seems like a great configuration, where you can install lots of PCI-E devices such as multiple graphics cards, PCI-E SSDs, sound cards, etc. As for the M.2 slots, there are two of them, both being covered by large heat-sinks. The motherboard provides six SATA III ports, capable of running at 6Gb/s. Coming to the I/O of the motherboard, it offers 6 x audio ports, 2 x WiFi antenna ports, 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, 3 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, 2 x USB 2.0 ports (one of which is used for BIOS), an HDMI port, a DP port, a PS/2 port, a BIOS Flashback button, and a Clear CMOS button. These options seem very extensive and are quite helpful during various scena...