So I reading some threads about old school cpu's like what people use and what not and made me remember the motherboard manufacturers that are no longer rocking out.
What one did you use?
I got into computer tinkering during the Socket A days of AMD and I had a special love for Soyo boards. Had awesome colors too! I used a machspeed motherboard once and that thing lasted forever.
Hmm, I honestly don't remember which motherboards I had in my earliest systems. The first computer I built for myself, and not as a "family computer" used an Asus board with a really crappy VIA chipset. If I had done some research first I would have seen that it was the worst performing socket 462 chipset out at the time, but I just went to the computer show in SF and bought, bought, bought.
It was still a good computer and lasted me until 2006, when I got some grant money and was able to upgrade. What a big upgrade that was, from a 1.33Ghz Athlon to an e8400, 3Ghz C2D.
Oh wow, I kind of forgot about DFI....those lanparty motherboards had some of the craziest freakin color schemes ever. Surprised no one bothered to buy their name.
Abit doesn't make motherboards anymore? When did that happen :|
I had an old QDI motherboard years ago from when I had my Pentium 166 MMX!
I killed it with overclocking + zero experience of what the hell I was doing
I personally remember SOYO boards. I had a socket 478 SOYO Dragon Motherboard. 4x DDR 400 DIMM Slots, AGP, and 6 PCI Slots. It ran a P4 2.66Ghz CPU. Great little thing, but I didn't have an AGP card so I never got to "use" it.
I remember Soyo - it was the mobo for my first ever PC build - had a 1ghz Duron. Back in the day I always wanted a Dual Xeon board... by the time I was employed Xeons were gone and the quad cores were here
Now i remember that the first board I've overclocked on was an Epox. I don't recall the model. It was a s775 with both an AGP and a PCI-E port. CPU at the time was a Pentium 4 640HT. I managed to get it to 4.0Ghz. I also owned a DFI Blood Iron P45 -T2RS. Knowing nothing about voltage control i overclocked my Q8400 @ 3.2Ghz using stock volts, and constantly complained why it wouldn't go higher. Great Motherboard...
I had a quick look on eBay, just for the fun of it and people are bleeping insane. They are asking over $450 for one of these boards! There was one on they that has been relisted since 2009. you'd figure after 3 years people would lower the price to about $50-$75!
My first all out gaming build which began after I managed to grab one of the first-ever AMD FX51 chips...
I loved that Asus SK8V Socket 940 board, it had the reliability of a server board but was very overclocking friendly and extremely stable. I still have it, and the CPU,and I have been slowly working on rebuilding the machine for fun.
Been playing around with an Asus XG-DLS board for Slot-2 Xeons. I use it for retro Windows gaming.
I always liked the P2/P3 Xeons so I had to jump on this board when I saw it a while ago. It had no retention brackets for the processors when I got it, so I modded a pair from an old quad Xeon server to fit.
I paid 80 shipped when I got mine about 7 months ago.
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