Now that we have got the specks out of the way, let us take a tour of the board.Above is a image of the complete board. You can see the CPU and memory slots at the top left of the picture. The ATX power connector is at the lower middle of the picture. I do not like this location; because it basically puts the power connect directly above the CPU fan.

Above image is a closer look at the back panel. The one thing that sticks out on this is the DVI port. But with an included Radeon X700, it is not tough to imagine why it is here.In the first image you can observe the Realtek ALC883 HAD Audio codec. This chip is at the rear of the board, at the back the PCI slots (with a yellow square around it).In the second image, you can see the Realtek 8111B Gigabyte Ethernet controller (left yellow square), and the ICS Clock controller (on the right).

Above we have shots of the North and South Bridge, respectively. We did not take out the heat-sinks, but we know the North Bridge is comprised of the AMD 690G, and the South Bridge has the ATI SB600.