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It's interesting that the smaller brother of this board - Aorus Master B650E - has both chipset slots PCIe 4.0.

There are listed third-party suppliers only (non-semiconductor companies). That's why there isn't Samsung, WD, Kioxia, Micron or SK Hynix.

Team 17 - I remember their Alien Breed and Poject-X from Amiga times.

I also prefer AMD because of their open-source Linux drivers. Therefore, I was surprised that nVidia opened the drivers too: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-open-kernel in May. I somehow missed this info, I don't know if it was published here, I know it week or two.

I hope they'll be available in Europe. Hynix P31 Gold was listed on Amazon.de but stated "Item cannot be delivered to your adress (CZ)". P41 Platinum is available on Amazon.com but not on Amazon.de.

In fact, there are just three chipsets A, B and X. The E means that mainboard has a few layers of PCB more and is capable to run at PCIe 5.0 speeds. Motherboards without E are expensive. Motherboards with E are very expensive.

Founders Edition for $1600 and other AiB cards for $1700 for literally 1% higher performance. Here it is $2000 for 2-3% from ASUS. It seems that each percent more is for $100 :). nVidia doesn't give much space for AiB for overclocking cards. No wonder EVGA left that bussiness.

I remember, that must be well 20 years, Abit introduced boards without PS/2 ports. There were almost no USB peripharals at that time.

So, finally, Intel did it. Not so power efficient as RX6600, drivers will need hard work, but yes, the third player is here.

My L30 S/N begins with 2102xxxxxx where everything should be fixed.

Coincidentally, I bought silver E30 & L30 (the first versions) five month ago and I'm pretty happy with it. But I don't understand why is a negative that ESS and AKM based DACs sounds the same. IMO good DACs should be transparent and sound the same, otherwise there's something wrong with them.

Yes, they connected all 4 M.2 slots to CPU but they share lanes with main graphic slot, i.e. it will run PCIe5.0 x8 instead of 16x when you connect the third or fourth NVMe. 4 SATA ports is not a restriction here, it is a maximum for B650. From manual of Aorus Master B650E

And there are bigger coolers than U14S, liquid metals, undervolting, ... :-)

Let's wait for B650E boards, they should be presented on 4-th Oct.

Some other X670(E) boards have two M.2 slots from CPU and the other two from chipset. Here is only one M.2 from CPU and remaining 4 PCIe lanes are used for the 2x USB4 Type-C Ports (40 Gb/s)