[Bizzel]

Apparently it's an old model but I've never seen anything like this before - an AOpen motherboard with a tube output stage for the audio. It's not as cool as a whole motherboard worth of tubes but nonetheless awesome. The reviewer seemed pretty impressed with the sound quality.

 

[Gautama]

Are those 64-bit pci slots I see or is it just hte angle?

 

[brotherlen]

That would look so good in my case with side windows!!!

 

[vagarach]

This an old motherboard from the AGP socket days, so those are PCI slots most likely.

It's real gimmicky though, perfect!

 

[Gautama]

But they look longer than regular PCI slots, like the 64-bit PCI slots..

 

[yuckymucky]

Those are just regular PCI slots. I remember reading the reviews of that mb and thinking that it was the coolest thing ever.

AOpen AX4B 533 Tube Motherboard Review - Page 1 - Introduction

 

[Nick 214]

AOpen AX4B 533 Tube Motherboard Review - Page 2 - Specs, Bios & OC Features

533MHZ Pent 4....

Could be fun for a "project" PC, though.

Nick

 

[DanT]

It's a 2002 motherboard with normal PCI slot.

There were 2 model of the sound board. One with red Wima caps as above

And an other with big white multicap and Elna caps

Here a small comparison I found with google

Techware Labs - Reviews - AOpen AX4GE Tube-G




Here AOpen page about them
http://global.aopen.com/search_prod.aspx?modl=tube