Presentation and Bundle
The box (and hey, there are still people out there that love a good box, you haters) almost looks as though Apple had a hand in it. Very noughties, very consumer electronics, very nice. There's a motherboard inside (!), so you get a good idea of what's inside from the box labelling. A lift-up flap gives you even more in-your-face marketing to stomach, expounding upon what's on the outermost edges of the box. I like it, despite the wee-wee taking. Sober is good for this kind of product.
Bundle
If you were expecting 6 SATA cables, IDE and floppy, extra Firewire, USB2.0 and a game port, the I/O shield, manual and some software, you're going to be sorely disappointed. Because that's exactly what you get. Oh wait.
There's not really much else to chuck in to a mainboard box bar free CPU, memory, wireless card and whatnot. You get (almost) everything you need to connect the board to whatever else is in your system, with only two SATA ports left unloved by the default cables supplied (at least in our sample).
The manual is well written, illustrated and easy to follow. It's rare to find a mainboard vendor dropping the ball on the documentation, but we read them all cover-to-cover over cups of cocoa just to make sure. Let's get down to the testing now.