Immediately after taking the motherboard out of the box, the differences between this, and many others becomes readily apparent. The first of which is the rather unique layout, which mimics that of BTX, without complying to having the position of memory and expansion cards inverted. Starting the usual tour-de-force at the top left hand corner of the motherboard, we see nothing but an assortment of traces; solder points in chips, followed shortly by a quadrant of DDR1 memory slots, set in Aopen's usual black and blue theme, to denotate the channels used. As we move eastward, the top portion of the power circuitry and connectors can be found, with the ATX and 12V headers conveniently placed together for easy wire management..



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