The board arrived in a well designed, highly attractive and protective
box. The total package consists of
1) KX 18 Pro II board
2) Driver CD
3) 1x SATA power cable.
4) USB and Firewire connector headers
5) 1 x SATA and 3 x ATA cables
6) User manual
7) SATA Installation Manual
The KX 18D Pro II's overall layout was quite good, with the CPU and
North bridge area having decent space around them to be fitted with
high performance coolers. However Albatron have decided not to include
mounting holes around the CPU socket, so certain high end coolers
(Alpha) cannot be fitted. We installed the unit onto our Prometeia
system so that we could try out some overclocking later on. Unfortunately
it didn't occur to us to take pictures of the board before installing
the system. The north bridge has been fitted with a fairy large heatsink
and fan combo to provide the best possible cooling. Some may consider
it to be a slightly overkill, nevertheless it more or less covers
every angle.
Taken from Albatron website
NorthBridge
The memory slots are color coded so that users can easily identify
how to activate Dual Channel DDR in their systems. In order to enable
Dual Channel you need to install one memory module in the purple slot
and the other module in one of the green slots. (Picture shows one
module already in place in a green memory slot)
Memory slots
The north bridge consists of a C1 revision NVIDIA nForce2 SPP (Ultra
400) chip, while the south bridge consists of a NVIDIA nForce2 MCP-T,
which provides a wide array of in-built features such as integrated
networking, IEEE-1394a/FireWire(R) support, up to six USB ports and
an integrated audio processing unit (APU) providing support for Dolby(R)
Digital 5.1 encoding.
South Bridge
The firewire and extra USB ports are enabled through the included
connectors. The installation manual details out clearly how to get
things running. I hope Albatron decides to include connectors that
can be accessed from the front rather than having to reach behind
your PC all the time to attach a USB or firewire device.
USB and Firewire adapters
The Rear panel has been kept to the standard layout and there's nothing
important to mention here. There's also space in the rear panel for
any future expansion, which is currently closed by a plastic cover.
