Packaging & Unboxing
Now speaking of the packaging, let’s get that out of the way first. If you’ve had an ACE board in the past, you’ll probably be familiar with the general design. It’s fairly simple and keeps detail on the front to a minimum.
However, the back is showered with information from the power design, to the cooling solution, and the fact that the board comes with 6 M.2 connectors through a mixture of onboard slots as well as the M.2 XPANDER-Z which gives two additional PCI-e 5.0 slots. We also find a full list of specifications and an overview of the IO making it especially handy if you’re looking at this in a physical store.
Opening up the box and taking a look inside, and there are a ton of accessories including a quick installation guide, stickers, USB flash drive, WiFi Antennas, RGB cables, SATA cables and some other cool things like the XPANDER-Z dual M.2 PCIe 5.0 card and an EZ front panel cable for easier installation when building in a case.
A full list of included accessories includes:
- Quick installation guide
- European Union regulatory notice
- Stickers
- USB flash drive
- WiFi antennas
- 3 x M.2 mounting screws
- 2 x Thermistor cables
- 1 to 2 RGB LED extension Y cable
- Rainbow RGB LED extension cable
- EZ front panel cable
- 4 x SATA cables (2 right-angled)
- XPANDER-Z dual M.2 PCIe 5.0 card
