okay so today I'm going to be doing the first in a series of retro unboxings
okay so I'm going to be unboxing the ASUS best value combo of PCI Express
solution all right so this features a state-of-the-art Cutting Edge AI
proactive P5 gd1 motherboard featuring
the Intel 95p chipset and I don't know
if you're going to be able to see this but see how much dust comes off this
box I found this in some corner of the
warehouse okay so this is a PCI Express back when that was like a Cutting Edge
feature okay and then it also features an extreme ax 600 XT which is basically
a 9600 Pro adapted for a PCI Express
interface with with a fan on it so let's go down and see what features are
included with this particular powerful features uh combo here so complete
directex 9.0 support excellent variety
connectivity with dvii TV out and dual
VGA okay and then we have Game Face live
video oh man that's Dusty oh it has a three-year warranty which by the way is
probably up at this point totally gone okay it supports lga775 Pentium 4 CPU
dual Channel ddr400 and SATA as well as IDE raid
there you go that is a feature I haven't seen in a while IDE raid also there are
valuables inside this box including a webcam and a Gamepad which are under
oneyear warranty period which is totally gone oh and it includes a free copy of
DSX Invisible War wow that that is an
old game at this point so let's get this thing opened up here oh something about
Wireless G cool all right smart art doctor stack cool all right so inside oh
we find lots of goodies so why don't we start with some of the accessory boxes
here here all right here's an accessory box this is
uh ah this seems to be a mount for the webcam okay and then we
have uh what is this ah yes the webcam
okay so if I could just get this open we could have a look at this
state-of-the-art Cutting Edge webcam here there you go it plugs in by
USB ooh no I'm just kidding USBS was was
was not not new then either okay so
we've got the webcam sorted out let's find out what's in the next box here so
oh I don't even think I can like reach that one yet okay okay why don't we find
out what's in this box there we go so this is probably going to be our
motherboard accessories would be my guess aha so it comes with a very
complete accessory package including a a driver CD all right a user guide with uh
a graphics card driver CD okay oh and the user guide includes a graphics card
setup setup thing as well I'm just going to get that CD so I don't lose it okay a
now I dropped it forget it okay so then we have let's see this is four SATA
cables and they come with little caps on them remember that wow haven't seen that
one in a while two more SATA cables so that's a total of four SATA cables all
right it comes with uh two USB oh and a joystick Port Port for the back awesome
awesome haven't seen one of those in a while either two ID cables 180 pin and
140 pin so that's for a hard drive that's for an optical drive and then a
floppy cable ironically those are still coming with motherboards these days okay
then we've got an IO Shield all right we've got a DVI to VGA
adapter okay then we have oh this is great this is an S video to composite
output adapter for the video card and
last but not least we have Molex to dual SATA power adapter because a lot of
power supplies back in the day did not come with SATA H SATA power oh this is
interesting oh this is nice I've never seen okay so Aus CD Suite this comes
with all of your CDs in it that's pretty cool so there's your day copy of DSX
game disc install disc comes with a copy of aus DVD all right I actually have a
copy of this somewhere it came with a laptop I bought in fact I have all I
have these two came with an assus laptop I bought years ago okay uh you lead cool
3D SE all right oh and it's got some more slots hey this is actually a pretty
nice little uh CD wallet there that's very nice okay so I'm going to just take
this piece out just so that I can get at this one okay so in here we will find oh
an impregnable box ah I found it here's the seam okay
so this includes a an Aus gam pad wow
that's actually pretty hefty that's got like a quality feel to it cuz that's one
thing that they did do back then better you know more heavy duty stuff it's like
everything seems sort of like this is making me sound old but everything seems
kind of like cheap in plastic sometimes these days okay so this is a dual analog
game controller with four buttons here it has turbo something about analog it
has macro support clear oh and then more buttons on the back so it has dual
shoulder buttons it plugs in by USB and it's got like stylish red R rubberized
grip and then black rubberized grip this actually hey this is pretty nice
actually no I quite like this it's pretty ergonomic okay yeah yeah I could
I could handle getting one of those for free with my motherboard not that we've
seen an offer like that in you know oh years okay all right now let's get down
to the real business here it is The Cutting
Edge PCI Express graphics card wow an
orange PCB excellent so it has a blower
design for the fan here you can see that blows the air down towards the uh
towards the graphics Port itself this features the atti rage theater chip
which I forget what it does at this point but it does something relevant
okay so like I said this is an x600 which is basically equivalent to a
Radeon 9600 so you can see I believe it
would be DDR memory on the back here rated at how however many Nan seconds
would have been relevant back then all right so there's the video card now
let's have a look at the motherboard so you can see we've got all the features
loaded onto this motherboard let's start with the uh CPU so it supports an lga775
CPU but forget support for dual course quad course none of that nonsense only
single core Pentium fors that's it okay you've got support for dual Channel DDR
not two not three DDR 184 pin DDR all
right you have oh this is great count them 1 2 3 IDE ports excellent
supporting up to six IDE drives awesome
feature right there Then you have four SATA 1 ports okay remember we're up to
SATA 3 now on current motherboards here is your conveniently colorcoded front
panel headers then you've got a couple USB 2.0 headers now in terms of
expansion slots you have one PCI Express 16x gen 1 and then you've got three PCI
and two PCI Express 1X slots sorry did I
say two I meant three PCI Express 1X slots your power ports are conveniently
located with your 24 pin along the right hand Edge and your four pin up at the
very top remember we're up to eight pin now on those guys all right and this is
fanless design zero noise no moving parts so that's your mosfet cooler you
can see we've come a long way on those as well let's have a look at the back
panel ports Okay so we've got two PS2 ports now we have normally like only one
okay we've got a printer port nice nice
serial Port okay then we have digital
audio out then we've got four USB ports
I don't even know if this is a gigabit Lan but it's some kind of Lan port and
then 7.1 HD audio so thank you for
checking out my uh somewhat dated
unboxing of the P5 gd1 and extreme ax600
XT uh best value
combo from isus