so today as part of my retro unboxing series I'm going to be unboxing the
Intel Desktop Board d850 MD this is for
the Intel Pentium 4 processor technology for The Cutting Edge of the internet so
this product is uh definitely engineered
to make the best use of The Cutting Edge of the internet okay so that means that
it includes
Lan Intel Pro 100 land connection Norton
Internet Security soundmax with SPX
audio and four back panel USB 1.1 ports
check that out it also has NTI CD maker
2000 this product is intended to be professionally installed so um unless
you're a professional don't install it I guess is what they're trying to say okay
so it the d850 MD combines solid
performance with support for Intel Pentium 4 processors in in the 478 pin
socket designed with the Intel 850 chipset harnesses the full bandwidth and
performance of Rd RAM memory into a microatx form factor awesome so R dims
that means we've got support for dual rambus Channels with four RDM sockets
for pc800 and PC 600 Rd RAM up to 2 gab
okay we have a communication and networking Riser support an AGP
connector Intel rapid bio boot Ultra
fast ATA 100 that's pretty Ultra fast
and then we have three PCI slots okay is there anything else on here that could
be relevant no I don't think so why
don't we go ahead and get this baby open
you can see it's got like some some cool
text on the front about 400 MHz front
side bus yeah the front side bus is is dead
and gone okay so inside find an IO Shield which looks very much like the io
Shields that we have today then we have an Intel Desktop Board I'll say the
usual thing even though I don't know how applicable it is you should download the
latest drivers off the Intel website uh
if they still have drivers available for this board you can see that the sticker
is actually a little bit yellowed like for for context there's something white
next to it so uh this gives us the general layout of the motherboard I
can't tell which way is actually up maybe it's this way yeah there we go so
uh Rim connector secondary IDE primary
IDE AGP socket okay that's pretty good next
we have the quick reference guide oo
interesting installing the io Shield H I don't know how much
interesting stuff is going to be in here maybe something about the warranty so I
can talk about how the warranty is definitely gone H it's in a few
different languages okay let's lose that we'll have a look at the board itself
shortly okay we've got a couple of ID cables and one floppy cable there's the
floppy cable oo gray cables how veryy '90s
and we've got a couple of IDE cables ah
high-tech okay so you can see one of the IDE cables is an 80 Pin cable that means
that one out of every two of these cables are actually just uh blanks
they're ground cables and those are intended to uh prevent interference from
one cable to the next so that's for high-speed ATA 100 connections whereas
this for Optical drives is a 40 pin connector so even though they have the
same connection they um this one's not optimized for low interference there
there's your um oh I don't know what this is I haven't seen this before this
is actually a little bit before my day to be perfectly honest with you so I'm
not going to be able to provide quite the amount of insight that I would
normally be able to with a retro unboxing because this is too retro even
for me so okay oh okay this was mentioned on the front of the box so
this is some kind of um like fastener
for the AGP card see normally we have these built-in these days but this seems
to be like a like a not built-in one so you put it onto the onto the connector
or something okay I'm not going to force it because even though it's old I don't really want to break it okay so let's
see what do we got we got a socket 478 supporting The Cutting Edge Pentium 4
internet processor then we've got four
um
I'm going to cheat what is this for yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah sorry four
Rd RAM slot supporting dual Channel 20
pin ATX connector there's your floppy connector two ID connectors for up to
four hard drives uh presumably supporting raid but you know what aboard
this old no probably not probably no rate support okay and then we've got ah
an internal USB header so you can hook up Cutting Edge front USB and then
you've got a fan header a motherboard battery and then some jumpers that's
probably clear seos that says config maybe it's to config the BIOS I don't
know what this is and I don't know what
this is that's okay then we have three PCI slots because this is well before
PCI Express took off and an AGP slot so
that means that we can hook up our Cutting Edge directex 9 or seven or
eight graphics card then we have a North Bridge um chipset cooler which seems to
have like a hold down on it so that oh that comes off so you can actually let
me see well I mean you know it's not like anyone's going to care if I damage
this thing so I'll just there we go okay so you can actually take off the
Northbridge heat sink that easily and let's have a look at the date on this
chip here you can see that it is marked Intel 00 so this is from 2000 that's
when that chip was manufactured very cool very uh very internet Cutting Edge
okay so um let's see what else we've got on this motherboard here we've got an
Intel P4 connector that's a four pin connector and then I think that pretty
much takes care of what we've got on the top of the board now here's the I/O
panel we've got a PS2 keyboard and mouse two USB 1.1 ports a couple serial ports
a printer port haven't seen one of those in a while a couple more USB 1.1 ports
there that's your internet connection very cool how highte and then we've got
support for I believe they're saying 5.1
audio no ac97 I don't think that is even
configurable to 5.1 so there's mic and then line out and then uh speakers
excellent thank you for checking out