Four DIMM slots are lined lengthwise to the right of the socket area.  They support Dual Channel DDR400 with a capacity of up to one gig per slot.  To the right, you will see the boards connectors lined up along the edge of the board neatly as if on dress parade.  Having these along the long edge of the NF4SK8AA keeps cable routing straight forward and free from unnecessary clutter.  The 24-pin ATX power connector and FDD rest just above the primary and secondary IDE connectors.  Moving down a bit further, we find four of the six internal SATA posts. 

The orderly layout doesn’t go astray as we get to the lower connection area.  At the bottom edge you can see the three blue internal USB headers next to the front panel connectors lined up nicely.  Just above these we also find the SATA 5 and SATA 6 posts controlled by a Silicon Image controller over the native NVidia one commanding SATA 1 through 4.  This layout screams “right angle” designer behind Foxconn’s SLI board.  Not only is everything effectively square but look at the lower three fan headers; one to the left of the left most USB post and one on either side of the upper SATA posts.  All three are next to the edge of the board making cable routing a breeze for the more OCD of us.  Kudos.

The chipset cooler is 40mm clear acrylic number mounted at a 45 degree angle.  One of the three lower fan headers is used by this fan.  Placement of the cooler may cause some difficulty with installation of a chipset water block as the overhang from a second PCI-E card may almost entirely rule this out.

Here we see the expansion slot area of the Foxconn NF4SK8AA.  The standard PCI slots with two PCI-E x16 slots flanking a single PCI-E x1 slot.  While having two PCI-E x16 slots is what makes for SLI, with two cards installed, I'm not sure how accessible the PCI-E x1 slot will be.  Time will tell if this is problematic or not as the practical end user won't have an immediate need to use the PCI-E x1 slot.  But as with everything else, this could change.  At the very bottom of the picture below you can see two orange sets of posts.  These are for your two Firewire connections.

Foxconn unfortunately does not have an automatic or digital option of enabling and disabling SLI.  SLI is enabled by the use of a small card shown below.  One side of the gold leads enables normal mode while the other enables SLI.  The card is readily accessible and easy to switch but a digital option like on the Albatron K8SLI would have been infinitely more preferable.

Our last shot is one of the rear I/O connectors.  When I initially received the Foxconn NF4SK8AA board, the dual Gigabit LAN escaped me.  Once I pulled the board out of the box and took a closer look, the two NICs are hard to miss and a very welcome sight.  Also present below are your 7.1 audio connections as well as the SPDIF coaxial and SPDIF optical out ports.  There is the absence of a rear Firewire port but this can be addressed via the expansion Firewire connector bracket.