Lovely bright and clear box art from ECS which clearly indicates the many features of the board. It's quite honestly one of the clearest yet at the same time informative covers I've seen in a while.


Box top.

The rear continues the trend with more specifically detailed information and a full colour image of the motherboard - in this case the image ECS have used is in fact the V1.0 rather than the V1.1 contained within. Not a big issue though as the only difference seems to be that the second PCI-E x16 slot has changed from blue to orange.


Box base.

Once open we can see the bundled extras.

These include a couple of SATA cables, an I/O backplate. Also included are a quick start guide, the instruction manual, and driver and utilities disk.


Manuals, cables, I/O plate and driver disk.

Unboxed the board looks to be a well laid out and somewhat clutter free design. It's a fanless design with a somewhat retro colour scheme coming in the classic 'PCB green' hue! The cream PCI slots and plain and simple heatsinks only add to the look... only the DIMM, SATA and PCI-E x16 slots stand out as 'in your face'.


The A885GM-A2.

As with most boards these days the rear of the board is largely clutter free with only the CPU backplate as a standout point of interest.


Board rear.