A little to the right, we can find 3 USB 2.0 headers, the Dr. Debug LED display, the Power button and Reset button, but also the CMOS battery:



To the right of the CMOS battery, a Clear CMOS jumper can be found, the power LED header, the Speaker Header and System Front Panel Header; near them, the Winbond chip which holds the BIOS can be found (it is also socketed, for easy removal):



This board does also feature six SATA II connectors, colored in dark blue and near them we can find an IDE connector, in light blue color:



Near the IDE connector, we can find two SATA III connectors, the ATX 24-pin power connector, two fan headers and a TPM header:



The memory slots are colored differently, to identify more easily the channels:



The MOSFET heatsink solution is efficient enough and it can be also found on the P55 Deluxe and P55 Extreme:



Here is a close-up on the MOSFET heatsink, when looking from the top:



Here is also a lateral view of the heatsink, where we can see the heatpipe termination, the top cap which holds the ASRock logo and a portion of the little thermal pad; here we can also see the plastic push-pin which is used to hold the heatsink properly fixed on the MOSFETs:



This motherboard has mounting holes for the new LGA1156 coolers, but also the LGA775 ones, so people that want to keep their old cooling solution do not need to change it; I find this a very useful feature, especially for the people that want to keep their old LGA775 waterblock:



The chipset heatsink does have on top the ASRock logo:



In the top left corner of the board, we can find the ATX12V 8-pin connector, another fan header and a USB power jumper:



The external board connectors are the following:

-PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports
-Clear CMOS switch
-Optical SPDIF out port
-Coaxial SPDIF out port
-powered eSATA3/USB 2.0 connector
-5xUSB 2.0 ports
-Firewire port
-2xUSB 3.0 ports
-LAN RJ45 port
-audio ports