A very aggressive and industrial looking design greets the purchaser. Not unattractive it certainly looks like it means business and contains info relating to the main features of the board.
Box front.
Moving onto the base of the packaging and you see that you certainly get all the info you could need. Clear indications of the features of the board including its high class components and the Fuzion technology on offer.
Box rear.
Bundle wise the Fuzion comes fully loaded - indeed I don't believe I've seen as many bits of paper supplied with a motherboard or any other PC component for that matter. There's even two driver disks. One for the system utilities and drivers and the other for the Lucid software.
Paperwork and disks.
Additional accessories include a variety of cabling including molex to SATA adapters and standard SATA cables. An I/O plate, usb riser to backplate adapter and USB3 front and rear panel assembly which offers a flexible method for installing a USB3 socket. Also present is a small bundle of header adapters for easier installation of the front panel and USB connectors to name a few.
Cables and connectors.
The board itself is a very good looking piece of kit with a dark PCB and black and blue sockets and heatsink covers. It's a passive design - the mosfet and southbridge/hydra sinks are particularly imposing.
Board top.
The base of the board is clean and simple looking. Besides the CPU heatsink's base plate you can clearly see that the board's passive heatsinks are screw mounted rather than spring clipped. I particularly like this new trend as the extra mount pressure afforded by screw down mechanisms provide better contact and consequently offer greater cooling potential.
Board base.
