eVGA nForce 680i SLI mainboard review - Page 6

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eVGA NVIDIA NFORCE 680i mainboard review - Guru3D.com 2007

Yes yes, that's the carton box. Yes really. Fun aside, always include a photo of the box so you know what you are looking for in the stores.

Right here we have the eVGA nForce 680i SLI. Obviously with the "i" for Intel and this board is for Socket 775. The mainboard is the A1 model. Quite an impressive motherboard folks! Let us sift through the photo's now.

Here we see the included bundle.

EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard
User's Manual
Drivers CD
Optional Fan
SLI Bridge
(2) Two SATA Cables
Y-Cable SATA Power Connector
IDE Cable
FDD Cable
I/O Back Panel Shield

I/O wise we can find 2 x 10/100/1000 LAN (lovely!) 1 x PS2 Keyboard, 1 x PS2 Mouse, 10 x USB2.0 ports (6 external + 4 internal headers), Multi (8) channel Audio connectors (Line-in, Line-out, MIC) and even an SPDIF optical.

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