ECS’ Black Series motherboards have been quite popular in the overclocking arena, but their recent offshoot of ‘Golden’ edition motherboards is pretty much as premium as you can get.

The ECS A85F2-A Golden I’m looking at today is a great example of what the engineers at ECS can do for a relatively low-cost platform and sprinkle it with bells and whistles you expect on premium boards, while still keeping your budget in check.
Features

Understandably then the ECS A85F2-A Golden doesn’t pack in a lot of goodies, with only a backplate (gold plated, of course) and 7x SATA cables, one for each port. The instruction manuals and drivers disc are the other extras, the latter being superseded by more updated versions on ECS’ website.