RETRO UNBOXING - Intel D850MD "Cutting Edge of the Internet" Motherboard
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today as part of my retro unboxing series I'm going to be unboxing the
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Intel Desktop Board d850 MD this is for
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the Intel Pentium 4 processor technology for The Cutting Edge of the internet so
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this product is uh definitely engineered
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to make the best use of The Cutting Edge of the internet okay so that means that
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it includes
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Lan Intel Pro 100 land connection Norton
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Internet Security soundmax with SPX
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audio and four back panel USB 1.1 ports
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check that out it also has NTI CD maker
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2000 this product is intended to be professionally installed so um unless
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you're a professional don't install it I guess is what they're trying to say okay
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so it the d850 MD combines solid
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performance with support for Intel Pentium 4 processors in in the 478 pin
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socket designed with the Intel 850 chipset harnesses the full bandwidth and
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performance of Rd RAM memory into a microatx form factor awesome so R dims
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that means we've got support for dual rambus Channels with four RDM sockets
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for pc800 and PC 600 Rd RAM up to 2 gab
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okay we have a communication and networking Riser support an AGP
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connector Intel rapid bio boot Ultra
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fast ATA 100 that's pretty Ultra fast
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and then we have three PCI slots okay is there anything else on here that could
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be relevant no I don't think so why
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don't we go ahead and get this baby open
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you can see it's got like some some cool
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text on the front about 400 MHz front
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side bus yeah the front side bus is is dead
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and gone okay so inside find an IO Shield which looks very much like the io
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Shields that we have today then we have an Intel Desktop Board I'll say the
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usual thing even though I don't know how applicable it is you should download the
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latest drivers off the Intel website uh
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if they still have drivers available for this board you can see that the sticker
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is actually a little bit yellowed like for for context there's something white
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next to it so uh this gives us the general layout of the motherboard I
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can't tell which way is actually up maybe it's this way yeah there we go so
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uh Rim connector secondary IDE primary
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IDE AGP socket okay that's pretty good next
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we have the quick reference guide oo
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interesting installing the io Shield H I don't know how much
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interesting stuff is going to be in here maybe something about the warranty so I
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can talk about how the warranty is definitely gone H it's in a few
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different languages okay let's lose that we'll have a look at the board itself
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shortly okay we've got a couple of ID cables and one floppy cable there's the
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floppy cable oo gray cables how veryy '90s
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and we've got a couple of IDE cables ah
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high-tech okay so you can see one of the IDE cables is an 80 Pin cable that means
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that one out of every two of these cables are actually just uh blanks
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they're ground cables and those are intended to uh prevent interference from
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one cable to the next so that's for high-speed ATA 100 connections whereas
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this for Optical drives is a 40 pin connector so even though they have the
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same connection they um this one's not optimized for low interference there
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there's your um oh I don't know what this is I haven't seen this before this
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is actually a little bit before my day to be perfectly honest with you so I'm
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not going to be able to provide quite the amount of insight that I would
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normally be able to with a retro unboxing because this is too retro even
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for me so okay oh okay this was mentioned on the front of the box so
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this is some kind of um like fastener
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for the AGP card see normally we have these built-in these days but this seems
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to be like a like a not built-in one so you put it onto the onto the connector
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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
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see what do we got we got a socket 478 supporting The Cutting Edge Pentium 4
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internet processor then we've got four
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um
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I'm going to cheat what is this for yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah sorry four
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Rd RAM slot supporting dual Channel 20
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pin ATX connector there's your floppy connector two ID connectors for up to
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four hard drives uh presumably supporting raid but you know what aboard
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this old no probably not probably no rate support okay and then we've got ah
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an internal USB header so you can hook up Cutting Edge front USB and then
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you've got a fan header a motherboard battery and then some jumpers that's
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probably clear seos that says config maybe it's to config the BIOS I don't
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know what this is and I don't know what
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this is that's okay then we have three PCI slots because this is well before
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PCI Express took off and an AGP slot so
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that means that we can hook up our Cutting Edge directex 9 or seven or
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eight graphics card then we have a North Bridge um chipset cooler which seems to
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have like a hold down on it so that oh that comes off so you can actually let
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me see well I mean you know it's not like anyone's going to care if I damage
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this thing so I'll just there we go okay so you can actually take off the
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Northbridge heat sink that easily and let's have a look at the date on this
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chip here you can see that it is marked Intel 00 so this is from 2000 that's
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when that chip was manufactured very cool very uh very internet Cutting Edge
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okay so um let's see what else we've got on this motherboard here we've got an
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Intel P4 connector that's a four pin connector and then I think that pretty
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much takes care of what we've got on the top of the board now here's the I/O
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panel we've got a PS2 keyboard and mouse two USB 1.1 ports a couple serial ports
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a printer port haven't seen one of those in a while a couple more USB 1.1 ports
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there that's your internet connection very cool how highte and then we've got
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support for I believe they're saying 5.1
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audio no ac97 I don't think that is even
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configurable to 5.1 so there's mic and then line out and then uh speakers
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excellent thank you for checking out