RETRO UNBOXING - ASUS Best Value Combo of PCIe Solution Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,510 words · ~7 min read
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okay so today I'm going to be doing the first in a series of retro unboxings
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okay so I'm going to be unboxing the ASUS best value combo of PCI Express
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solution all right so this features a state-of-the-art Cutting Edge AI
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proactive P5 gd1 motherboard featuring
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the Intel 95p chipset and I don't know
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if you're going to be able to see this but see how much dust comes off this
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box I found this in some corner of the
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warehouse okay so this is a PCI Express back when that was like a Cutting Edge
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feature okay and then it also features an extreme ax 600 XT which is basically
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a 9600 Pro adapted for a PCI Express
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interface with with a fan on it so let's go down and see what features are
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included with this particular powerful features uh combo here so complete
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directex 9.0 support excellent variety
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connectivity with dvii TV out and dual
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VGA okay and then we have Game Face live
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video oh man that's Dusty oh it has a three-year warranty which by the way is
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probably up at this point totally gone okay it supports lga775 Pentium 4 CPU
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dual Channel ddr400 and SATA as well as IDE raid
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there you go that is a feature I haven't seen in a while IDE raid also there are
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valuables inside this box including a webcam and a Gamepad which are under
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oneyear warranty period which is totally gone oh and it includes a free copy of
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DSX Invisible War wow that that is an
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old game at this point so let's get this thing opened up here oh something about
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Wireless G cool all right smart art doctor stack cool all right so inside oh
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we find lots of goodies so why don't we start with some of the accessory boxes
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here here all right here's an accessory box this is
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uh ah this seems to be a mount for the webcam okay and then we
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have uh what is this ah yes the webcam
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okay so if I could just get this open we could have a look at this
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state-of-the-art Cutting Edge webcam here there you go it plugs in by
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USB ooh no I'm just kidding USBS was was
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was not not new then either okay so
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we've got the webcam sorted out let's find out what's in the next box here so
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oh I don't even think I can like reach that one yet okay okay why don't we find
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out what's in this box there we go so this is probably going to be our
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motherboard accessories would be my guess aha so it comes with a very
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complete accessory package including a a driver CD all right a user guide with uh
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a graphics card driver CD okay oh and the user guide includes a graphics card
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setup setup thing as well I'm just going to get that CD so I don't lose it okay a
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now I dropped it forget it okay so then we have let's see this is four SATA
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cables and they come with little caps on them remember that wow haven't seen that
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one in a while two more SATA cables so that's a total of four SATA cables all
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right it comes with uh two USB oh and a joystick Port Port for the back awesome
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awesome haven't seen one of those in a while either two ID cables 180 pin and
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140 pin so that's for a hard drive that's for an optical drive and then a
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floppy cable ironically those are still coming with motherboards these days okay
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then we've got an IO Shield all right we've got a DVI to VGA
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adapter okay then we have oh this is great this is an S video to composite
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output adapter for the video card and
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last but not least we have Molex to dual SATA power adapter because a lot of
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power supplies back in the day did not come with SATA H SATA power oh this is
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interesting oh this is nice I've never seen okay so Aus CD Suite this comes
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with all of your CDs in it that's pretty cool so there's your day copy of DSX
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game disc install disc comes with a copy of aus DVD all right I actually have a
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copy of this somewhere it came with a laptop I bought in fact I have all I
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have these two came with an assus laptop I bought years ago okay uh you lead cool
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3D SE all right oh and it's got some more slots hey this is actually a pretty
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nice little uh CD wallet there that's very nice okay so I'm going to just take
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this piece out just so that I can get at this one okay so in here we will find oh
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an impregnable box ah I found it here's the seam okay
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so this includes a an Aus gam pad wow
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that's actually pretty hefty that's got like a quality feel to it cuz that's one
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thing that they did do back then better you know more heavy duty stuff it's like
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everything seems sort of like this is making me sound old but everything seems
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kind of like cheap in plastic sometimes these days okay so this is a dual analog
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game controller with four buttons here it has turbo something about analog it
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has macro support clear oh and then more buttons on the back so it has dual
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shoulder buttons it plugs in by USB and it's got like stylish red R rubberized
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grip and then black rubberized grip this actually hey this is pretty nice
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actually no I quite like this it's pretty ergonomic okay yeah yeah I could
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I could handle getting one of those for free with my motherboard not that we've
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seen an offer like that in you know oh years okay all right now let's get down
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to the real business here it is The Cutting
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Edge PCI Express graphics card wow an
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orange PCB excellent so it has a blower
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design for the fan here you can see that blows the air down towards the uh
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towards the graphics Port itself this features the atti rage theater chip
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which I forget what it does at this point but it does something relevant
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okay so like I said this is an x600 which is basically equivalent to a
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Radeon 9600 so you can see I believe it
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would be DDR memory on the back here rated at how however many Nan seconds
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would have been relevant back then all right so there's the video card now
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let's have a look at the motherboard so you can see we've got all the features
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loaded onto this motherboard let's start with the uh CPU so it supports an lga775
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CPU but forget support for dual course quad course none of that nonsense only
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single core Pentium fors that's it okay you've got support for dual Channel DDR
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not two not three DDR 184 pin DDR all
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right you have oh this is great count them 1 2 3 IDE ports excellent
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supporting up to six IDE drives awesome
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feature right there Then you have four SATA 1 ports okay remember we're up to
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SATA 3 now on current motherboards here is your conveniently colorcoded front
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panel headers then you've got a couple USB 2.0 headers now in terms of
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expansion slots you have one PCI Express 16x gen 1 and then you've got three PCI
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and two PCI Express 1X slots sorry did I
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say two I meant three PCI Express 1X slots your power ports are conveniently
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located with your 24 pin along the right hand Edge and your four pin up at the
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very top remember we're up to eight pin now on those guys all right and this is
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fanless design zero noise no moving parts so that's your mosfet cooler you
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can see we've come a long way on those as well let's have a look at the back
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panel ports Okay so we've got two PS2 ports now we have normally like only one
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okay we've got a printer port nice nice
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serial Port okay then we have digital
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audio out then we've got four USB ports
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I don't even know if this is a gigabit Lan but it's some kind of Lan port and
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then 7.1 HD audio so thank you for
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checking out my uh somewhat dated
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unboxing of the P5 gd1 and extreme ax600
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XT uh best value
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combo from isus