The A75M mATX board from Foxconn is packed inside a medium-sized box, with the logos of the supported technologies on top:
On one of the box sides, we can find a small sticker which contains product serial numbers:
The main product highlights can be found written on the bottom of the box, in multiple languages:
Inside, we can find the board fully wrapped inside an anti-static bag; its bundle is located right under it:
The received sample comes with two SATA cables, the I/O shield and a small paper titled “For China Market Only”; the retail product should also contain a manual and the CD with drivers and utilities:
A75M comes with a blue PCB and the connectors/slots have different colors to differentiate between the types; as expansion slots, we can find one PCI-Express x16, one PCI-Express x1 and two PCI. Thanks to the included PCI slots, we can install our older TV tuner and/or sound card, so we will have a fully featured media center. The motherboard does contain solid capacitors only in the VRM areas, the rest being filled with electrolytic ones:
Here is a closer look on the CPU VRM; we can see that the area is not covered at all by a heatsink so it might not be a very good idea to perform CPU overclocking on this motherboard:
Near the PCI-Express x16 slot, we can find a SYS_FAN1 header:
The Realtek RTL8112B Gigabit Ethernet Controller can be found on the left side of the PCB: