Deluxe Bundle
A mean looking wolf-like mechanical animal and the title "The King of Athlon 64 Motherboards" adorn the standard sized motherboard box. We'll see. A closeup of the feature list in the top right makes mention of the WiFi features, but none are bundled in this particular box variant. Here's the confirmation of that fact.
WiFi slot, but no hardware. LostCircuits review of the same board, in the same box, has the WiFi hardware, so be careful what you're buying. You can't mistake it on the second bundle version I'll show you soon, but look out if you're buying that particular bundle and box design at retail, not all carry the WiFi hardware.
As far as bundles go, without the WiFi hardware the K8V Deluxe is pretty bereft. You get the two USB ports and the single FireWire port, both on PCI I/O shields, for your peripheral I/O needs. A nice pair of black ASUS IDE cables and a black floppy cable take care of legacy disk connections, although I guess rounded cables are preferred these days. Two SATA data cables and one SATA power cable let you hook up SATA disks. The manual mentions a 40-pin IDE ribbon but it didn't appear in either K8V box, maybe a typo?
The rest of the bundle is standard issue. ATX I/O shield for the backplane ports, a copy of WinDVD (2 channel crippled version, hrmph) and the manual and driver CD for the board. A set of stickers too, to label some of your ports, should you not know which is which, is a nice touch.
The board supports S/PDIF optical and coaxial digital output, you get those ports on an I/O shield.
The manual mentions a bag of extra jumpers, but only the WiFi bundled sample arrived with them. A sample oversight I'm sure, look out for those in all K8V retail boxes.
There's one crucial thing missing, I'll mention that on the system setup page.
The second box bundle now.
