Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 6-Quad review - Layout, design, cooling cont'd
Author: Vedran Dakic
Date: 31 Mar 2007

The back panel is also very, very interesting. The first thing you'll notice are four Gigabit Ethernet ports (NFORCE + Marvell chips). The usual four USB's, 2xPS/2, six audio connectors are also there. You can also use the optical S/PDIF output, serial port and, believe it or not, small Firewire connector (TI TSB43AB23 chip). This is actually the first time we saw this on a motherboard. Audio is Realtek's ALC888, and the standard upgrade package - four PCI-E slots (2x16, 1x8, 1x1) and three PCI's. Let's take a look at more details: