According to an EEC leak, Gigabyte would release up to 16 AORUS motherboards. The AORUS Master series is the second highest tier, after the AORUS Xtreme series. ... AORUS Z690 Master motherboard leaks - LGA1700 socket and the PCIe Gen5 slot up close.
Hmmm ... according to the layout of this particular board, 4 slot graphics cards seem to become the standard in the future (no wonder whe using power envelopes with up to 450W)...
the leaked pictures show almost no rear usb ports which is worrying when x570 boards have sometimes 11+ of them the 2 bottom pcie slots either will be used for a NIC and or soundcard none of which require high pcie 4.0 or 5.0 bandwith or a single raid nvme card maybe if the chipset has enough lanes... if the m.2(s) I hope there's more than one if not intel is still 3 generations backwards compared to amd (cause it'll be the same as z390 basically) are under that large plate they will be cooked by the gpu and have zero case airflow...HORRIBLE DESIGN, see what good m.2 placement is from MSI which usually have the best motherboard layout of all brands 3 is on the right (E-ATX obviously) 2-1 at the bottom where they either receive airflow from the bottom fans if you have a modern case or at least don't take heat from the gpu and more than that, the 1 connected to the cpu most likely to be used as OS nvme is the one on the bottom right with the best coolest emplacement = GOOD DESIGN another huge problem with obsolete motherboard design they put the cpu connected m.2 slot in the worst hottest place all the time sata also better placed so are the additional cpu power cables and so are the pc case external usbs fyi in a lian-li 011 dynamic xl with 10 fans 3-3-3-1 those 3 m.2 under msi cooling plates were at 39-37-40°C, that's where they should be, stop cloning 20 year old MB design manufacturers ><
