Bundle, Presentation and Manual
Our mecha-vulpine friend seems familiar? He sure does. ASUS make things green this time around, but it's well trodden territory. Rather than being the King of AMD Athlon 64 Motherboards this time around, we're feeling the true power of Athlon FX.
I'd show you the box in more detail, along with the bundle contents, but the box is in a sorry state and the bundle contents have been cannibalised by whoever had the pleasure of looking at it before me.
As far as bundle contents go, it's what we saw with K8V, with the addition of another FireWire port on a fly-off I/O plate. The board supports the 802.11b WiFi add-on card that ASUS ship with certain boards and offer for separate sale, but in the SK8V bundle on review today, it's absent.
We've got two black, ASUS-branded ATA ribbons, floppy ribbon, four USB2.0 ports on a single I/O plate, the manual and CD, along with the ATX I/O shield for your case, a bag of spare board jumpers, a quick-start guide and a sticker for the ATX I/O shield to help you identify the ports a bit better.
Comprehensive, making sure you can use everything that the board provides, bar the WiFi expansion.
Manual
The manual has the usual ASUS quality. It's been a long time since they faltered in this area and they're not about to start now. Easy to read, navigate and pleasingly heavy on details, you'll get a lot out of it should you need to reference it. Good stuff.Layout next.
