Packaging front
The green packaging reflects ECS's commitment towards environmentally friendly products while showing off some of the features of the motherboard. Compatible with A4, A6 and A8 series APUs from AMD as well as supporting dual graphics mode with a compatible, discrete AMD Radeon graphics card. We also see the icon showing that this motherboard supports a disk-less startup as well as features that improves reliability, such as 50°C burn test, anti static protection and all solid capacitors.
Packaging rear
The rear of the box displays the collective features of the motherboard including the ECS GUI UEFI BIOS as well as EuP and RoHS certificates.
Bundled items
The motherboard is bundled with with the manual and start up guide, I/O backplate, Driver and software CD and two SATA cables. It is a shame that the cables provided were not white as per the board aesthetic.
Motherboard overview
The most striking thing you will notice on first look, is that this board is slightly narrower than usual ATX motherboards. The A55F-A2 is only 190mm wide which causes a slight overhang from the screw mounts when installed in a case, one should take care when plugging the 24pin ATX power connection in. The PCB is a dark brown/ near black with grey DIMMs and PCIe x16 slot while the 3x PCIe x1 and 3x legacy PCI slots are an off white colour. Overall the aesthetic, abeit being a little dull and monochromatic, it is uniformed and pleasing.
