The ITE IT8893E PCIe-to-PCI bridge chip supplies the PCI interfaces, since the Ivy Bridge chipset does not have any hardware support for them anymore:

The Texas Instruments TUSB7320 USB 3.0 Host Controller supplies the interface for the two Front Panel ports:

On the bottom of the PCB, we can find multiple headers (from right to left):

-Front Panel switch/LED header

-Front Panel USB 3.0 header

-Case Open header

-Front Panel USB 2.0 header (with EZ Charger support)

-SPI Debug header -> for factory use

-3-pin System Cooling Fan header

-Onboard Serial Port Header

-SPDIF out header

-Front Panel Audio Header

Instead of including the Serial Port Header, we would have wanted an additional of one or two USB 2.0 headers, which are very useful nowadays for connecting additional ports on the front panel, liquid cooling systems (like the Antec 920), intelligent front panel LCDs and so on:

A nice inclusion on the board is the Mini-Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s port, located in the bottom right corner, where we can plug in a SSD to use as cache; near it we will find the Debug LED display:

Next, we will find 6 SATA ports, two of which are SATA2 and 4 SATA3:

The Power and Reset buttons are lit when the system is operating and are placed conveniently to the right:

A small buzzer is soldered near the PCH heatsink:

The memory slots are all black and near them we will find the 24-pin ATX power connector:

Here there is also an additional 3-pin fan header:

The last fan header can be found on the top portion of the PCB, near the VRM heatsink and the memory slots: