ASUS Vintage-AH1

Again great barebones--see previoius review

Other thoughts

It works. Comes with a floppy drive (for those that still use floppies). Good barebone to buy if you have extra parts left over from previous upgrades. It's nice and compact. The big exhaust fan is nice, too

The hard drive is difficult to install and uninstall when everything else is installed. The ATI chipset is not as good as it's rival, but it does the job

First and for most, it is very quiet. 4 SATA ports, PSU is quite powerful ; Sleep, plenty of USB ports and for an intergrated video, it's quite decent for mild gaming

The voltage selector on the PSU, I noticed it right away

This box is very well put-together and really is a lot of bang for the buck. I popped a A64 4000+ cpu in with a GB the Asus-recommended Corsair budget ram. Make sure to put the cpu fan on last because there is not a lot of room to work

For some reason, addition of a wd800jd sata drive slows bios recognition of devices severely. Also, I cannot get this system to boot from this particular drive. Regular IDE drives seem to work fine

I normally build all of my own systems from scratch, using Intel, Asus or MSI boards, and other top quality parts. However, I just got done building 2 smoking systems for my 2 best friends for Christmas presents with parts from Newegg (they paid for...

I must agree with others that the guide for this barebone unit is clearly inadequate. Many barebone builders are building their first systems and this guide will be of little help to them, especially if they encounter any problems. I didn't even look...

Sleek looking case, comes with motherboard, decent PSU, floppy drive, and all of the cables are already hooked up

Took me a while to get running. I couldn't get Windows to install (it kept freezing), but found I had to disable on-board USB in the BIOS. Watch out for the PSU being set to the wrong voltage, mine was, and there is a sticker over the hole clearly...

I am impressed by the attention to detail. Items such as indentations for screwdrives, everything lined up nicely. Loaded Windows Vista RC1 and everything worked

PATA ribbon cable are cheap and an eyesore. But then for $99, it's quite a package

Love the small case. Has nice ventilation.. Worked perfect for my application. An internet cruiser/work horse

RAM has to be in the DIMM B1 slot if your using a single stick. Has to slipstream a XP cd with the ULi SATA drivers that came on the floppy disk and hit the F6 during the XP install to load the third party hdd drivers. The SATA drivers on the included...

Quiet barebones system, includes onboard video and audio, even includes floppy drive (although I didn't need it.) Was a breeze to add my memory, CPU, and hard drive. Booted up and has run perfectly so far

The power supply's voltage switch defaulted to 230 V. It wasn't hard to switch to 115 V but it seems like Asus ought to switch them for units it knows will be sold in the US ; The manual is sparse on details, especially which DIMM slots to use to...

ASUS is usally good stuff

One After The Other, Neither Would Post or Boot. I'm into the system after buying the Memory & CPU for it