Parallel IDE: Two ATA-133 ports controlled by the south bridge chip.
Serial IDE: Four SATA-300 ports controlled by the south bridge chip, supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD and one eSATA port controlled by JMicron JMB360 chip.
USB: Eight USB 2.0 ports (four soldered on the motherboard and four available thru I/O brackets. This motherboard came with a bracket with two ports, so two ports are left over).
Firewire (IEEE 1394a): Two ports controlled by VIA VT6308 chip.
On-board audio: Produced by the chipset together with Realtek ALC883 codec (eight channels, 24-bit resolution, up to 96 KHz sampling rate for the inputs and up to 192 KHz sampling rate for the outputs, 85 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the inputs and 95 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the outputs).
On-board video: No.
On-board LAN: One Gigabit Ethernet port controlled by the chipset together with one Marvell 88E1116 chip.
Buzzer: No.
Power supply: ATX12V 2.x (24-pin).
Slots: Two x16 PCI Express slots (SLI at x8), one x1 PCI Express slot and two PCI slots.
Memory: Four DDR-DIMM sockets (up to 8 GB up to DDR2-800/PC2-6400).
Number of CDs that come with this motherboard: Two.
Programs that come with this motherboard: Drivers, utilities, Norton Internet Security, Corel Snapfire 11 SE and Intervideo DVD Copy 5 Trial.
Extra features: Q-Connector for the case frontal connectors.