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so today as part of my retro unboxing series I'm going to be unboxing the intel desktop board d 850 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 da da LAN Intel Pro 100 LAN connection norton internet security sound Knox with SPX audio and for 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 unless you're a professional don't install it I guess is what they're trying to say okay so it'd be D 850 MD combines solid performance with support for Intel Pentium 4 processors in the 478 pin socket designed with the Intel 850 chipset harness is the full bandwidth and performance of rd ram memory into a micro ATX form factor awesome so our dims that means we've got support for dual Rambis channels with four RDM sockets for pc 800 and pc 600 are drm up to two gigabytes ok we have a communication and networking riser support an AGP connector intel rapid BIOS boot ultra-fast ATA 100 that's pretty ultra fast and then we have three PCI slots ok 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 megahertz front side bus yeah the front side buses is dead and gone ok so inside we find an i/o shield which looks very much like the style sheets 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 have drivers available for this board you can see that the sticker is actually a little bit yellowed like fur for context there's something white next to it so 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 our rim connector secondary IDE primary IDE AGP socket okay that's pretty good next we have the quick reference guide mmm interesting installing the i/o shield 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 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 IDE cables and one floppy cable there's the floppy cable and LU great cables how very 90s and we've got a couple of IDE cables ah hi-tech okay so you can see one of the IDE cables is an eighty pin cable that means that one out of every two of these cables are actually just blanks they're ground cables and those are intended to 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 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 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 on to the onto the connector something okay I'm not gonna force it because even though it's a little bit on 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 we've got four um what is this for yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah sorry for Rd round slots supporting dual channel 20 pin ATX connector there's your floppy connector to IDE connectors for up to four hard drives presumably supporting raid but you know what aboard this old no probably not probably no rate support okay and then we've got 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 probably clear CMOS 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 DirectX 9 or seven or eight graphics card then we have a north bridge chipset cooler which seems to have like hold down on it so that all that comes off so you can actually let me see well I mean you know it's not like anyone's gonna care if I damage this time so just there we go okay so you can actually take off the Northbridge heatsink that easily and let's have a look at the date on this chip here you can see that it is marked Intel zero zero so this is from 2000 that's when that chip was manufactured very cool very very internet cutting edge okay so 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 2 USB 1.1 port 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 high-tech and then we've got support for I believe they're saying 5.1 audio no AC 97 I don't think that is even configurable 25.1 so there's mic and then line out and then speakers excellent thank you for checking