The trend of covering more and more of the PCB with add-on parts continues with the eighth generation of Crosshair. The cover of the I / O area has become a bit bulky, the chipset cooler and M.2 cooler merge into one larger cooling block. The silver strip, starting at the top left on the I / O cover and ending at the bottom right on the chipset cooler, is equipped with LEDs and can therefore be designed individually.
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