Bundle and accessories
Foxconn appears to be suggesting you use your motherboard as a landing runway for your model helicopter or other miniature flying vehicle. That's the only reason we can give for the box art design. We should hasten to add that the 975X7AB doesn't actually come with edge lighting - although now we think about it that could have been fun. Runway shenanigans aside, it's a box… with a motherboard inside it.
Foxconn, however, now ships retail 975X7ABs with a new style of packaging. Which do you prefer?
Once we found what Foxconn had put in its fairly unexciting old box other than the motherboard, we started to wish for edge lighting even more. There are only two SATA cables provided, and they are of the non-latching variety so easily pop off their sockets. The SATA power Y-splitters will be sufficient for the full four devices supported, though, and both the ATA cables are 80-pin, if not of the rounded variety. The software bundle is meagre, too. The supplied disc only includes a couple of Foxconn utilities and a 90-day trial of Norton Internet Security 2006 - nothing full version at all. But the most heinous omission is that there are no extra brackets for the additional USB and FireWire headers on the motherboard, forcing you to use chassis-integrated ports or provide your own brackets.
