The FIC K8-800T is based on the industry standard ATX form factor. With a traditional green colored PCB, the overall appearance of the motherboard has been enhanced with various colored expansion slots, headers and connectors. The color theme is very pleasing to the eye, but the colors will also help users locate and dictate the different types of connections with ease.

     Directly below the processor socket is the VIA K8T800 northbridge chip, passively cooled with a black colored aluminum heatsink. The heatsink is mounted to the northbridge with a plastic plug for each of the two holes that surrounds the chip. It was rather easy to remove the plugs from the underside of the motherboard, but the thermal adhesive pad FIC used has a very tight grip, so be careful not to damage any of the capacitors that surrounds the chip if you decide to replace the heatsink with a more elaborate cooing device. An unused three pin fan header sits to the very left of the VIA K8T800 chip for you to use as well.

     Within the expansion slot area, there are three main chips that control certain features on the FIC K8-800T. One of these chips sits to the very left of the purple AGP slot, and this is the Realtek 8100C ethernet controller to provide up to a 100Mbps connection for networking. The other large chip is the VIA VT6307L, which is located to the immediate left of the forth PCI slot, and it supports two firewire ports. Each firewire port will be connected to one of the light blue colored port headers, as both are located directly under the corner of the fifth PCI slot. Between these two embedded chips, and next to the second PCI slot, is the smaller Realtek ALC655 chip. This chip will provide a 6-channel audio solution. All of the associated audio connectors and headers are also present here, with each connection type staggered to the left of the first, second and third PCI slots.