On the next few pages we'll show you some photos. The images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon 450D 12 MegaPixel.

Alrighty, meet the ECS X58B-A packaging. They spent a little more money on the carton boxing for sure.

When we look at the bundle we see that ECS has been listening to our comments and started to include more SATA cables; one for each port. Also an eSATA cable and FireWire slash USB header. Furthermore the Driver CD and manual.

The motherboard itself is gorgeous to look at. The first thing we notice here is that ECS also took some comments from our last X48 review seriously. This is a proper heatpipe, doing an effective job. Thumbs up for ECS.

Let's go into a more detailed look. We'll start off with back-panel connectivity as we again see two improvements based on media comments from the previous reviews.