Epox provides a very good bundle with the 9NPA+ Ultra motherboard. To begin with, you will find two purple IDE cables and two white SATA cables in the package. Unusual colour choice by Epox, but the white SATA cables look great. Unfortunately the floppy disk drive cable is a typical flat cable instead of a round one.

There is a typical backplate bracket and two extension PCI brackets in the packaging as well. One of the extension brackets provides two extra USB ports where the other provides two extra firewire ports. To conclude the standard bundle there is a nicely written manual and a quick installation guide, as well as a drivers/software CD.

That is not all you will get with the purchase of an Epox 9NPA+ Ultra motherboard however. Epox include the ‘powerpack’ extras with this motherboard. These include rounded IDE cables and a package of small heatsinks with a handy tool. The heatsinks are perfect for installation on small (hot) components of your choice, such as VGA RAM chips or the motherboard MOSFETs. There is a small powerpack manual which helps you to pick where to install them. The small provided tool is a modular screwdriver, which looks much like a pen. It sure isn’t as comfortable as a 30$ professional screwdriver, but it is small, lightweight and, most importantly, it gets the job done.