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Taking a birds eye view of the motherboard, we see a clean layout with two PCIe 16x slots, two PCIe 1x slots, and two PCI slots.

If you use two double-width video cards, you will be sacrificing a PCIe 1x slot and a PCI slot as they will be covered by the GPU coolers - leaving you with only one PCI and one PCIe 1x slot for expansion.

The board comes with a fairly thick manual, a brief "Quck Start Guide", a driver/utility DVD, and a disk of the full STALKER game.

You want cables? You get cables... four SATA2, a sata two power splitter, a back panel USB/FireWire bracket, a POST LCD, UDMA and floppy cable, cable ties, cable retainers, and the quick connect header.

You also get the "Supreme FX II" HD audio card, which has nine audio connectors on it.

Look at the solid state caps near the CPU socket.... not to mention the massive heatsinks connected by heat pipes.

Notice the black caps? That's a water block on the northbridge, for those that like to water cool their motherboards.

The heat sinks do look good.

The I/O panel on the back has a PS/2 keyboard connector, six USB 2.0 connectors, two gigabit ethernet ports, SP/DIFF and optical output, a firewire port... and I really like the "Clear CMOS" button  :-)