Also, on the top side of the heatsink we can find some measuring points:

The board is equipped with 2 PCI-E x1 slots, 3 PCI-E x16 and 2 PCI; the first two PCI-E x16 slots are carefully placed so we do not have to worry when installing video cards with multiple slot cooling systems:

The VRM is completely covered by a gold plated heatsink, made from two pieces; the capacitors, along with the chokes are also gold plated:

Another interesting piece of the “puzzle” is the CPU socket, which is also gold plated and features a black plastic cover, which must be removed only after the CPU has been installed:

Here is a photo of the open, exposed socket:

The CPU can be installed really easy by following the guides:

The I/O connectors are also gold plated, to preserve the theme from the rest of the board. Besides the integrated Bluetooth dongle and the Wireless LAN dongle (which needs to operate with the supplied WiFi antenna installed in the back), we can also find no less than 4 USB 3.0 ports, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 2 eSATA ports, a LAN port, the Audio ports, the Clear CMOS button and the video out interfaces (VGA and HDMI). It is unknown why the manufacturer has chosen to use an analog VGA interface instead of DVI, considering that we can also use the DVI interface with older monitors by using a DVI to VGA adapter: