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Around 2001 or slightly later I had always wanted an Asus CUC2 motherboard for an Intel Pentium III Coppermine build because it supported more than 512 MB of RAM that the 815 chipset motherboards supported or up to 768 MB to 1 GB that 440BX supported, like my Abit ST6-RAID and later the Asus TUSL2 that replaced it after scratching a trace on the motherboard considering that the CUC2 supported up to 1 GB of Rambus PC800 in dual-channel instead the single channel PC133 SDRAM that the 815 chipset boards and the previous 440BX supported. Also, the CUC2 supported socket 370 instead of Slot 1, like most 820 chipset boards prior especially considering it uses the 820E chipset that is extremely rare if you ask me and if I'm not mistaken much like the 840 chipset that the P3DRIII in my other post uses as well as the Intel OR840 that I previously own before donating it to the Community College I graduated from.
I finally got this board for about $40 from a seller on pricewatch around that time in 2001 or slightly later, but it sat in my file cabinet because of the cost of RAMBUS at the time until I around 2008 when Rambus prices were considerably lower because support for it had declined due to it being replaced by the adoption of DDR memory in the 845, 865, and 875 chipsets that supported the Pentium 4 processor after the 850 and 850E chipset boards. Also, after I finally decided on a case for this board, which was the Lian-Li A71F way after the disaster I had with a Kingwinn case that I thought I needed to modify and had to thin aluminum years before. I don't have any pictures of the build yet, but here are the specs as well as the prices paid for the parts, which I'm not selling at all or price checking especially here followed by a video:
My Pentium 3 (CUC2) Computer
-Motherboard: Asus CUC2 Intel 820E socket 370 motherboard $40
-Processor: Intel Pentium III Coppermine 1 GHz 133 MHz FSB 256 KB L2 cache 32 KB L1 cache $299
-Memory: Elpida PC-800 512MB x2 $200
-Heatsink: Thermalright SLK-800A $100
-Heatsink fan: Vantec Tornado 80mm Double Ball Bearing High Air Flow Case Fan - Model TD8038H $13.99
-Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum $199
-Video: BFG 7800GS 256MB GDDR3 AGP $350
-USB: StarTech 7 Port PCI USB Card Adapter Model PCIUSB7 $20
-LAN: D-Link 530TX+ $20
-RAID controller: PNY SPU5103PPB PCI SATA S-CURE Storage Card $39.99
-Optical Reader: MSI 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DH-18DP $19.99
-Optical Writer: LG DVD-RW DL Burner $40
-Floppy Drive: SAMSUNG Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Model SFD321B/LFBL1 - O $7.49
-Case: Lian Li Classic Series PC-A71F / Black / Full Tower Case $255.99
and the video demonstrating it without any hard drives yet:
I finally got this board for about $40 from a seller on pricewatch around that time in 2001 or slightly later, but it sat in my file cabinet because of the cost of RAMBUS at the time until I around 2008 when Rambus prices were considerably lower because support for it had declined due to it being replaced by the adoption of DDR memory in the 845, 865, and 875 chipsets that supported the Pentium 4 processor after the 850 and 850E chipset boards. Also, after I finally decided on a case for this board, which was the Lian-Li A71F way after the disaster I had with a Kingwinn case that I thought I needed to modify and had to thin aluminum years before. I don't have any pictures of the build yet, but here are the specs as well as the prices paid for the parts, which I'm not selling at all or price checking especially here followed by a video:
My Pentium 3 (CUC2) Computer
-Motherboard: Asus CUC2 Intel 820E socket 370 motherboard $40
-Processor: Intel Pentium III Coppermine 1 GHz 133 MHz FSB 256 KB L2 cache 32 KB L1 cache $299
-Memory: Elpida PC-800 512MB x2 $200
-Heatsink: Thermalright SLK-800A $100
-Heatsink fan: Vantec Tornado 80mm Double Ball Bearing High Air Flow Case Fan - Model TD8038H $13.99
-Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum $199
-Video: BFG 7800GS 256MB GDDR3 AGP $350
-USB: StarTech 7 Port PCI USB Card Adapter Model PCIUSB7 $20
-LAN: D-Link 530TX+ $20
-RAID controller: PNY SPU5103PPB PCI SATA S-CURE Storage Card $39.99
-Optical Reader: MSI 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DH-18DP $19.99
-Optical Writer: LG DVD-RW DL Burner $40
-Floppy Drive: SAMSUNG Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Model SFD321B/LFBL1 - O $7.49
-Case: Lian Li Classic Series PC-A71F / Black / Full Tower Case $255.99
and the video demonstrating it without any hard drives yet:
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