The second obvious thing is the North Bridge chip rotated at a 45-degree angle compared to the sides of the board. The last is the huge capacitors next to the CPU. These things are very large, but they ensure plenty of constant power to the processor. The only problem that I had with them is they got in the way a little while I was trying to attach a Thermaltake Chrome Orb to the Processor. Not enough so that I couldn't get the fan on, but enough to have to nudge them a little to get it to fit. But for most people this shouldn't be a problem since a standard Socket A fan will fit nicely. Onboard Audio is provided by a VIA 686A Super South Bridge chip. The audio is easily disabled in the BIOS and it is recommended to use your current sound card to get the best performance out of your system.

The package included all the usual things, ATA66 40pin cable, software CD, Manual etc. The software CD was very complete. Including VIA 4in1 drivers and the drivers for the onboard sound. The MSI software also came with two very useful utilities. One being the PC Alert software that monitors the temperature of your CPU and board, along with fan speed and voltage monitors. And the other being the MSI Fuzzy Logic II over clocking software. These two items used together make it very easy to over clock your CPU while monitoring it's temperature to make sure it doesn't get to hot. The Fuzzy Logic software will even automatically over clock the processor for you by adjusting the Front Side Bus one MHz at a time until it "finds" the stressing point. You must then reboot and choose turbo and it over clocks the CPU to the best frequency that it could find during the test. 

MSI's Fuzzy Logic Tweaking software

I was running this board on a Duron 600 and was only able to get it up to 678Mhz by pushing the FSB to 113MHZ. I was able to push the CPU to 700Mhz, FSB to 115 and run the benchmarks but the system would lock after I went to take the screen shot. I suppose that after I unlock the CPU and bump up the voltage I should be able to get it much higher by increasing the FSB in the BIOS manually or by using the Fuzzy Logic Software.