One more item DFI thinks necessary to add to the mainboard is a device named FrontX. You let this thing creep into the 5”-bay of your PC and it will provide you with one FireWire and two USB ports as well as mic-in and headphones jacks. The connectors are not glued to their places, but inserted on slides. It means you can change their layout to your own taste.

The last box goes under the name of Accessory Kit. There is a bunch of small items accompanying any mainboard. To be more specific, we have two brackets for the back panel of the PC case with a game port (it just didn’t fit into the mainboard’s back panel) and two FireWire ports, one Serial ATA cable along with a Serial ATA power adapter, a bracket with S/PDIF in- and output (both – non-optical) and a bracket with holes for the mainboards’ own connectors. The last thing is necessary, since the connector panel is non-standard.

We have no USB bracket, which is quite natural: the mainboard’s panel carries four USB ports, and FrontX – two more (the MCP-T South Bridge supports 6 USB ports in total). The onboard USB connectors can also be output to the system case ports – such cases are quite popular today. So, DFI is quite right in not giving us that bracket.

Some items didn’t find a place in any of the boxes. These are a sticker with “LAN PARTY” caption, a shield with a similar caption and “It’s party time” logo, a several-page “Quick Installation Guide” and five jumper caps with tails to catch them by. Curiously enough, the mainboard itself has ordinary, tailless jumper caps. So if you use Clear CMOS too often, just replace the jumper cap with a more convenient one. Besides, inside the box you will also find a pack of thermal paste, but we didn’t check its efficiency. Anyway, if you happen to have no paste at hand, this one will do.