The portrayed motherboard has a legacy serial port, which is available through a header labeled “COM.” You will need to buy an adapter if you want to use this port.
In Figure 6, you can see all of the accessories that come with the ECS A85F2-A Golden.
Figure 6: Accessories
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Our review of ASUS P5N-E SLI, a mainstream socket 775 motherboard based on nForce 650i chipset, supporting SLI and future Core 2 Duo CPUs based on the 1,333 MHz external bus.
Our review of Abit AN-M2, a socket AM2 motherboard with on-board video based on the NVIDIA GeForce 7025-630a chipset competing with motherboards based on AMD 690V and AMD 690G.
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