Review: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0

• Support for all Athlon XP processors including new 200MHz versions
• Up to 3GB of unbuffered non-ECC DDR400 184-pin DDR DRAM memory
• Dual channel memory support
• 1 x AGP 3.0 Pro (8X, 1.5V) slot
• 5 x 32-bit, 33MHz PCI2.1 compliant PCI slots
• Silicon Image Sil3112A SerialATA controller (supporting RAID0/1) w/ 2 ATA150 ports
• Realtek ALC650 6-channel PHY front end to APU audio with support for Dolby Digital
• Broadcom AC101L PHY front end to MCP 3Com Ethernet MAC (10/100Mbit)
• Realtek 8201BL PHY front end to MCP NVIDIA Ethernet MAC (10/100Mbit)
• Realtek 8801B PHY 2-port front end to MCP Firewire controller
• 6 USB 2.0 ports
• S/PDIF digial output
• ATA133 4 device parallel ATA support
• Floppy connector
• Serial port, parallel port

Yikes, could you ask for anything else? FireWire, Dolby Digital hardware, SerialATA, 2 Ethernet ports, lots of USB2.0, 6-channel sound and support for the latest processors.

It's pretty feature packed and bar a smart card reader, I'm not sure there's much else you could bundle with this motherboard.

Here's a look at the ports on the backplane.

Board ports