Included with the board we have several manuals, an I/O backplate, extra sound ports, and a quick installation manual.
If you are in need for some extra firewire and USB ports there is two of each included also.
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As usual Albatron does not provide you with rounded IDE cables just to be able to supply cheaper motherboards to the customers I think.
They do include two IDE and one floppy cable though and a SATA power adapter so you can run your SATA drives even on a older PSU.
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No holes around the CPU socket sure makes alot of overclockers leave this board out of their plans since they cannot mount the high end coolers on this without buying
expensive hold downs. The northbridge is equipped with this heatsink that has a small 40 mm fan on it. The fan is actually kind of quiet so you don't have to worry about it.
If you find it to be loud just exchange it for a Zalman heatsink.
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Three DDR slots are available for your usage. You can run a whoopin 3 GB singel channel and 2 GB dual channel memory.
The IDE ports and the SATA ports are mounted close to each other which I find good since then you have everything kind of sorted out on the board.
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Everything is color coded on this board so you will not have problems with installing the cables. You get five PCI slots to play with and
one AGP slot that has a locking mechanism so your card won't fall out when moving the computer.
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Here we have a closer look on the locking mechanism on the AGP slot. On the back we find the I/O ports and to start with we have the standard Ps2 ports, LAN port, and two USB ports.
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