The front of the package features GIGABYTE's latest design incorporating a bold 'in-your-face' font with the 'eye' and Ultra Durable Logo. Each motherboard family in the GIGABYTE range features it's own colour set with the UD having yellow, SOC being Orange and the Gaming with red highlighting.
The box features a flip lid which has a window inside giving us a brief glimpse of the mainboard beneath. (Un)fortunately the motherboard is wrapped in an anti-static bag so it is difficult to see the motherboard but if you are truly concerned with what the motherboard looks like then flipping the box over will appease you.


The diagrammatic view of the motherboard gives us an insight to the features. We liked the blown up photos of the components and a brief description telling us what task each performs. There is little information omitted from the back of the packaging that we ourselves would have included so props to GIGABYTE for doing a solid job here.


We often find that it is the accessories, not the product itself that often suffers from corner cutting but thankfully we do not witness this here as GIGABYTE have not only given us an inventory to be proud of but the quality is also very good. the illuminated backplate is a God send for those who have there cases hidden away as fumbling in the dark trying to put a cable in the wrong hole can prove disastrous! This is a feature we would like all manufacturers to adopt in gaming motherboards as gamers are perhaps the most likely to switch out peripherals more often than most enthusiasts.

In addition to the back plate we get four (yes 4x) SLI bridges, a crossfire bridge, 6 SATA cables (3x angled), a well written motherboard manual, multilingual installation guide and utility/driver CD. It is worth noting also that the SATA cables are braided black which look very impressive.