ASUS Pundit-PH3 barebone PC with Intel 915G chipset Intel Media Accelerator GMA900

[Jazzpeter65]

Hi all!

 

While I was looking for a motherboard for the OSX86, I stumbled over the The ASUS Pundit-PH3 barebone PC based on the Intel 915G chipset.

 

It seems to have alle the right specs adn it is cheap too! All you need is RAM, CPU and HD then you are running. Price is around 176 dollars.

 

Specs:

 

 

Celeron D 345J Socket 775

North Bridge: Intel 915G

South Bridge: ICH6

Memory

512Mb (Expandable to 4Gb)

Expansion Slots

1 x PCI-e x 16

1 x PCI-e

2 x PCI

Graphics

Intel Media Accelerator 900

IDE

1 x ATA 100

S-ATA

2 x SATA

LAN

10/100 Mbps

Audio

On-Board AC'97 - 6 Channel

Dimension (mm) W x H x D

357 x 398 x 95

Drive Bays

2 x 3.5" , 1 x 5.25"

Front Panel

2 x USB 2.0

1 x Microphone

1 x Headphone/SPDIF Out

1 x 6-in-1 Card Reader

1 x IEEE 1394 (4pin)

Rear Panel

4 x USB 2.0

1 x Line-in/Line-out/Mic-in

1 x PS/2 Keyboard

1 x PS/2 Mouse

1 x Parallel Port

1 x Serial Port

1 x RJ45 LAN (10/100Mbits)

1 x IEEE 1394 (6pin)

1 x D-sub (VGA Out)

Power Supply

275 W (PFC)

Software

Windows XP Home

CA EZ-Antivirus

Microsoft Anti-Spyware

Nero Express 6 (CD/DVD burning/copying)

Nerovision (DVD editing/authouring)

Nero Backitup (Data backup utility)

Power DVD (DVD playback)

Open Office (Full office suite)

Key Features

Tool-less Design

Q-fan Technology

Recovery Pro

Antivirus Solution

CrashFree BIOS2

Ez Flash BIOS

 

 

What do you think?

[thrunner]

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...it_PH3_Barebone

ASUS Pundit PH3 Barebone

 

Method: Used Marklar ISO patched with 'R1' installer patch from OSx86 forum. This creates an actual install DVD, which delivered a perfect install from scratch on HD.

 

This must be the ultimate MacIntel... Bought this machine to be a HTPC, but for now it will be my Mac. Based on the i915G chipset, it is very close to the Apple developer system. I put in a Pentium 4 Prescott '630', which has advanced speedstep management, execute disable etc. At 3 GHz with 1 Gb RAM, my MacIntel flies. Added a Pioneer 110D DVD burner, which is of course recognized as 'Apple Superdrive'. Heh.

 

As was to be expected, absolutely everything works. USB, FireWire, Audio (including SPDIF), LAN, you name it. I added a Silicon Image ADD2 card to get a DVI output and a Bluetooth dongle, so now I'm better equipped than a Mac Mini (with much greater speed) for far less money.

 

And if this developer OS X ever ceases to be... It'll become a Windows XP MCE machine anyway.

Alternative and save about $40 is to use the ASUS_Pundit_PE3 (915GL) minus PCIe-16 slot of the PH3.

edited added one review:

One small issue

 

Comments: These are nice boxes but the description should make it clear that the PCI and PCI Express slots will only accept low profile cards. The backing plate on standard cards is too high to fit into the rea... More »

r slots in this box. This same issue exists in the Pundit-PE3. The Pundit-R uses a PCI riser and standard PCI cards fit fine in that one

 

Ask me how I know this...

 

Reviewed By: TimTheToolMan, 10/3/2005 2:30:12 PM