XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review :: XFX nForce 750a Bundle

• Two 90 degree SATA data cables
• One SATA power cable
• One Rounded IDE cable
• One Rounded FDD cable
• Driver CD
• Quick Install Guide
• IO Shield

One thing I’ve noticed about recent XFX motherboard products is that they don’t include a hard-copy of the manual with their motherboards. Their website also doesn’t have the manual on the motherboard. There is a Quick Install Guide for the motherboard that covers the basics of the motherboard but it would have been nice to include a hard copy to show BIOS Settings and other information.

Box rear

Bundle

The two 90 degree SATA Data cables are there for installation on SATA HDDs. Simply plug in the 90 degree cable into the HDD, then insert the other end into the motherboard and the SATA drive is installed. A Rounded IDE Cable and a FDD Cable round out the hardware cables included. The rounded cables look the best in a case.

The driver CD contains the drivers to work with the motherboard. Some manufacturers include anti-virus software and or hard drive partitioning software but with the advent of Windows Vista partitioning software is a bit redundant. The full manual is on the CD, the only place to get the manual. So if you lose the Driver CD, and need the manual, you are out of luck until XFX uploads a newer version online. One thing that was excluded from the bundle altogether was the SLI Bridge. An SLI bridge allows two video cards to communicate when in SLI mode giving increased performance over a single card. Many times a video card will come with this bridge but most of the time the motherboard is what provides the bridge.

NVIDIA System monitor

Device settings