What does a motherboard come with?

[primeosu2]

Bare with me now, as I have never bought a motherboard separately before... I plan on buying an Epox 8K7A, and I was just wondering what exactly does it come with (floppy cable, IDE ATA 66/100 cable with how many connecters, etc). If someone who owns it or just knows could tell me, I would appreciate it, thx.

 

[trungma]

Retail motherboards usually come with one standard ATA66/100 cable (two hd connectors), one standard floppy cable (two floppy connectors), CD w/ drivers and software, manual. If the motherboard has raid or onboard IDE controller you will probably get an additional ATA66/100 cable and raid drivers on floppy (important for Windows 2000 installation).

 

[overdog]

The 8k7a comes with

1 floppy cable w/ 2 connectors
1 ATA/100 cable with 2 connectors
1 ATA/33 cable with 2 connectors
2 extra USB port thingies that screw onto a PCI opening

 

[primeosu2]

overdog, let me clarify something... When you say "with 2 connectors", does that mean one connector for the motherboard and the other for the drive? Or does it mean you can connect 2 drives with it?

 

[NelsonMuntz]

He means you can connect two drives with it. Hardly anyone ships the ones that only connect one drive anymore. Never really made sense to ship those in the first place since why would anyone want one that only connected half of the possible devices?