Standard RoG packaging greets the user with a velcroed flap allowing a view of the board within.
Box front.
It's a surprisingly heavy package - perhaps it's the accessories within that add to the weight but I suspect the board itself is a weighty item!
Viewing window.
The rear states the general features of the board - simple but at least you know what you're getting! Within you will find two separate containers... one for the Crosshair IV Extreme and the other for the accessories.
Box rear.
The accessories bundled with the C4E are great in number - as well as the various standard items including the driver and utility disc, manual, stickers, I/O plate and cabling you also receive an additional USB/firewire breakout PCI plate, come temp monitoring cabling, probeit cabling for the use of a multimeter and an ATi crossfire bridge.
Lots of bundled accessories!
They also include a replacement illuminated RoG logo.
The RoG logo.
Moving onto the board you can see that it's an incredibly impressive looking piece of hardware.
Crosshair IV Extreme.
The main focus from a distance is most definitely those five bright red PCIe 2.0 x16 slots.... it certainly helps give the impression that it's a board that means business!
Lots of PCIe x16 slots.
The base of the board includes the standard AM3 backplate but is ultimately quite tidy and fairly component free.
Crosshair IV Extreme base.
You can see that the boards integrated heatsink solution is actually held in place by spring mounted screws which will hopefully provide better 'harder' contact and improve cooling.
Screw mounted heatsink.