What is wrong with how this mobo looks?

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i have an image (below) of an "asus rampage V edition 10" motherboard and based on what i could understand on the spec sheet, this mobo, should have x16 PCIE slots, yet!, on the back of the mobo it clearly shows something directly underneath the PCIE slots, PCIE slots 1 and 4 have the most...connectors?...studs?(idk that's part of why im asking about them), while Slots 2 and 6 have the 2nd most(but less then).

does this show that slots 1 and 4 are true x16 or am i out of my mind?
just got curious about these things on the back of the mobo, don.t know what they are called and had no way of searching about them....soo here i am.
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I am not sure I understand the question. Here is the board on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132838 if you look under the specs it says what each slot does and how bandwidth is shared.

If you have a proper CPU, yes, it can do x16/x16. Anything lesser and you are looking at x16/x8 for the x16 slots in SLI/Xfire. This board has complex switching circuits so a lot of the bandwidth is divided up.
 
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so that proves that they are not all x16 slots, thanks, i figured they might not all be, i seen a video that mentioned that it is nto a good idea to drill into a motherboard because there could be or are connection in a hidden layer of the mobo, so i was not sure, thanks for the info, now i know that i would need to have 1 GPU in slot 1 adn the other in in slot 4, and have intel's 750 series 1.2TB PCIE SSD in slot 2 or 6, i knew something was up when i seen this board...slots 1, 3, 5 and 7 are x16 and 2, 4 and 6 are x8.
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sorry, i have trouble wording things, i was talking about the silver looking dots that are directly underneath of each PCIE slot
 
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yeah i figured that they had to do with the PCIE connection(x8, x16, etc), but did not know for sure.
 
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