The M4A89TD PRO comes in a mint green box and as most motherboards, the packaging holds to being similar size and offering similar accessories. What you get inside, apart from the motherboard is an instructions manual, IO fascia, drivers disc, SATA 6G cables and an IDE cable.
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Removing the M4A89TD PRO from the box, we are instantly met by its vibrant colours. Not only does the board stand out by being colourful but the heatsinks are rather eyecatching and elaborate.

There is no mistaking it, this board was designed with the performance user in mind. The layout is fairly typical of a board of its calibre but its strange that ASUS have chosen to cater for IDE users. Perhaps ASUS are still holding out for those on the slower IDE platform. SATA has been on the market for a long time now though and it is time to abandon IDE, especially with the onslaught of SSD.