Change the model number... and voila, new box!

Over the last couple years, we've gotten to know ECS pretty well as a maker of performance boards that don't carry a performance price tag. Continuing ECS' push for affordable high end motherboards, the PN2 SLI2+ makes its appearance and is based off of the nVidia nForce 680i SLI chipset for Intel processors.

As with all their Intel based Extreme series motherboards, the box sports a blue and black colour scheme. This is a pretty obvious copy and paste job if you can recall the look of previous product packaging, but at least they're consistent. Let's see how consistent the performance is shall we?

Inside the Box

For their Extreme line of motherboards, it's no surprise to find a wealth of cables to take care of any enthusiast:

• 7x SATA cables, 3x 4-pin Molex to two SATA power adapter cable
• 1x CDROM, 1x EIDE, 1x floppy
• 1x 3' RJ45 cable (CAT5E)
• 1x eSATA expansion port and cable
• 2x USB and 1xfirewire expansion
• 1x rear panel plate
• 1x SLI connector, 1x north bridge cooling fan

That's a pretty long SLI connector. That's also the Northbridge clip-on fan.

That's a lot of cables! And yet it is our hopeless dream that IDE and especially floppy dies off. With SATA optical drives becoming more widespread, we hope the end is near. Given how long floppy has been around, we can expect that to happen sometime oh..... in the 2050s, after mankind nukes itself into the stone age.

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