Hardware and Contents Gallery
The Packaging feel is a little underwhelming and one would think that the board is not protected as it should be. 
The actuality of it is, this board is well protected. Inside the box the motherboard is encased in a strong plastic fitted package with the accessories riding the insets.
Speaking of accessories; this board has them in spades.
EVGA has got the inside of your case covered with four SATA cables, SLI bridges (x2 & x3) and MOLEX to SATA power adapters which allow you to get your raid on – if you are into that.
The back panel accessories round out the included hardware.
These accessories are a real value added for the peripheral junkie or the person who needs greater expandability when combined with the port rich back panel. 
Sacrifices had to be made here, to gain the space for those ports, which is evidenced by the lack of IGP video outputs (1x mini-DisplayPort).
The motherboard:
Motherboard Details:
Below we see shots of the PCIe 3.0 switches by ASMedia and one of the two PCIe slot power booster ports. These are noted because every slot individually is capable of its rated speed; furthermore, even if all were enabled there would be no issues as the PCIe 3.0 spec gives enough bandwidth to allow lane sharing and switching without any perceivable impact on performance (benchmarking can show some performance decrease) and the added power from the power booster ports. Also please consider these slots may be used by devices such as 10Gbps multi-port LAN controllers, RAID controllers, high end solid state drives… and any PCIe x1-x4 devices you add. The three shots following the PCIe details are the port locations for all the rear panel brackets, the eight internal SATA ports (4x 2.0 & 4x 3.0) and a 3 way bios select giving access to different feature levels and can be used for alternate settings. 
Moving to the other on-board bells and whistles we find things that make us happy.
Buttons, we do so love buttons and here we have buttons to help at a bench party and a rear BIOS reset (Clear CMOS) when the board is in the box.
When do you have a bench party without having issues? Almost never and two features provided on this board are the temp and post lead and the EZ voltage test points.
Though there is nothing here that can be considered a value added feature it is not overpriced; for the total package.
