The new packaging definitely much neater than before. On the box itself there are clear indications of what the board is all about and it's capabilities. This is an improvement over it's predecessors where one box fits all.

The Mainboard

The mainboard is very near and the most apparent things we saw is the introduction of a +12V power supply connector on it's K7 series of boards. The North Bridge SiS746 is shifted south and we have a Xabre 200 GPU soldered on board with heatsinks attached to the graphics memory chips. There are 3 PCI slots and 1 CNR Slot. There is no AGP slot (L7S7A would have that).

User's guide, CDROM, IDE cables

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