The board comes with 3 PCI, 3 PCIe x16 and 1 PCIe x 4 slot. The 3 full length slots PCIe Gen 2 can be used to run CrossFire X. It can be configured to run in 2way/4way at x16/x16 or 3 way CrossFire at x16/x8/x8 or 2 way crossfire + Pysics at x16/x8/x8. Right behind the PCI slot is the audio connector for Bernstein audio and two Marvell PCIe GbE controller.

Both north and south bridge are passively cooled by the heatpipe. The South bridge SB600 on the left bottom corner of the board controls the 4 SATAII ports. Another 2 SATAII ports are managed by the Siliconimage 3132 SATAII controller.

On the left are the external USB bracket connectors, the VIA 1394. We can see a debug led and also power on / off buttons + colour coded front panel connectors.

6 USB, 1 1394 and 2 GbE connectors are at the back panel.

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