Hey paulcs, have a look ;)

[Admiral]

ASUS CUSL2-C Black Pearl (special edition)

[Jorden]

My name might not be Paulcs, but what is that little brownish slot on the lower left, next to the PCI slots?

Jord.

[fredo5]

Jorden, that's a CNR slot for network cards, sound cards and other stuff like that (it's a riser slot)

[Admiral]

Hmm, didn't even noticed it.
Wouldn't it be cool if everything had a black PCB ?
Mate this thing with a Suma video card and find a sound card, modem, NIC and memory with a black PCB


[This message has been edited by Admiral (edited 22 March 2001).]

[az]

my 4-year-old terratec maestro 32/96 soundcard has got a black pcb... bought it for 450 DM (over 200$) back then and it has given me nothing but trouble *lol

AZ

[SCompRacer]

Way Kool! Gotta install the window and neon lights for this one.

[ChenSoft]

That's 1 fine ass mobo

[dZeus]

az, please stop about the ESS Maestro chipset.. I'm getting epileptic seizures as soon as you mentioned it.... AAARGGH!!!

must be the memories I had of a card based on that chipset!

[az]

actually it's a d'ream synthesizer (i believe, but that could be the 4mb wavetable rom), and it's capable of 48khz/20bits (which was really much for that time)...

was one of the finest cards back then... (better thn the awe32) the only problem was, it wasn't from creative, so it was lacking dos games compatibility... only sb pro compatible..

(actually this is still annoying me, as a quick glance at the specs of my only pc will tell you )

asus p55t2p4
p166mmx@183 on a 75 mhz fsb
matrox millennium 4mb
terratec maestro 32/96
64 mb 60ns edo (upgraded from 32 originally)
iiyama vision master pro 17 (was friggin' expensive back then)
15gb quantum lct (upgrade from 2gb ibm daqa)
pioneer dr-a12x cdd (sooo loud!!!)
sony 8x/4x/32x burner (forgot the number, upgrade)
microsoft mouse
cherry g83-6000 keyboard

great, eh? and a real bargain, i paid under 3000$ for the original version in feb '97

AZ

[Jon P. Inghram]

It's the perfect overclockers board! The black PCB will radiate heat better...

[Goc]

What was the model of that black Aopen board that came out with designer signatures? That one was also cool, eh?

[CHHAS]

You mean this one ?



[This message has been edited by CHHAS (edited 23 March 2001).]

[paulcs]

Thanks Andre. I'm such a sucker for this stuff.

Paul
paulcs@speakeasy.net

[Admiral]

I know
If I do recall it was the same AOpen board CHHAS posted here that you strated the last thread with.

[Paulr]

I first heard about this board about a month ago.
Apparently, amongst other things it will feature a socketed BIOS.
For anybody in the UK interested, I put a couple of feelers out.
The board doesn't 'officially' exist yet, at the moment they are just trying to drum up interest for when they do produce it, so they know numbers etc.
It will be about a month before UK retailers know if/how many units to expect.