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The ASUS Prime Z690-A Motherboard (90MB18L0-M0EAY0) even features astute thermal solutions capable of dealing with the cutting-edge hardware featured exclusively by this motherboard, such as the three M.2 slots, which are cooled via two M.2 heatsinks.

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