Installation
Installation turned out to be as easy as any motherboard I have ever done. It carries the standard ATX layout and all connections for the most part are located at the immediate edges of the board to allow for easy routing and cable management. You will find that the IO shield does have covers over the Network ports that do need to be bent back, be sure to do so as that would be quite troublesome to do once the board is completely installed.
When testing a few cases for installation I did notice that the screw midway down the board below the sata ports can be difficult to get to, otherwise it installed with the greatest of ease (unlike compared to a few other boards I have tested recently.)
The board actually has both keyboard and mouse PS2 ports. Something that is starting to disappear in a lot of boards these days, but a welcome addition for any legacy user that is ready to upgrade systems but loves they're old keyboard.
Bundled Accessories
access
with the board comes a very complete accessories selection.
- SLI connectors (both a flexibual dual SLI and a rigid 3 way SLI)
- Sata cables (a total of 4 yellow cables with right angle plugs on one end)
- Floppy and IDE cables
- Esata bracket with included power cable and esata cable
- Full Motherboard manual including motherboard driver/software cd
- Multi language manual
- IO shield