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Anyone remember "that" motherboard?

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#1 ·
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.

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#4 ·
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.
 
#5 ·
Abit, DFI, Shuttle, Soltek, AOpen, FIC. I loved these brands too..
 
#7 ·
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
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Originally Posted by tedman View Post

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
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Cool, i'll have to check my p166(non-mmx) motherboard now. It's a board that you have to set cpu speed by jumpers
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It surely looks like the picture. Lol, look at the cache slots next to ram slots
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Think about it, now half the tech on that board is in CPU
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#9 ·
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Originally Posted by Catscratch View Post

Cool, i'll have to check my p166(non-mmx) motherboard now. It's a board that you have to set cpu speed by jumpers
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It surely looks like the picture. Lol, look at the cache slots next to ram slots
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Think about it, now half the tech on that board is in CPU
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I figured out the overclocking via jumpers thing when I was about 13 and just thought "hey, it will go up to 233Mhz!!"

One month later I had to get a new mobo
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#10 ·
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Originally Posted by Thracks View Post

Abit KX7-333R, Abit NF7-S 2.0 and the DFI LanParty DK P45-T2R/S. Amazing motherboards from defunct companies.
Don't forget the Abit AN7, DFI Lanparty NF3 250gb,

I miss Abit, DFI and EpoX.
 
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Originally Posted by 47 Knucklehead View Post

I love my old Tyan Tomcat S1563D dual cpu board for Socket 7.
nice! too bad tyan decided to leave the desktop market
 
#13 ·
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 :p
 
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Originally Posted by S.M. View Post

Don't forget the Abit AN7, DFI Lanparty NF3 250gb,
I miss Abit, DFI and EpoX.
I accidentally killed an EpoX 8rda+ :/ A lesson not to touch nb/sb heatsink while computer is running.
 
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Originally Posted by 47 Knucklehead View Post

I love my old Tyan Tomcat S1563D dual cpu board for Socket 7.
oh my god, TYAN! I thought they made great stuff. I guess they were gobbled up by some conglomerate
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This thread is making me feel reeeeeeeeally old lol

- "nice! too bad tyan decided to leave the desktop market" ahhh, so they're still around in the enterprise world huh? Good.
 
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#21 ·
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...
 
#23 ·
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.
 
#24 ·
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.

Legit brackets look like this.



Specs:

Antec Earthwatts 380W
ASUS XG-DLS
Dual P3 Xeon 700/1Mb SL49P @784mhz
2GB Micron PC133 ECC @ 112mhz
Leadtek WinFast A350
Generic USB 2.0 Card
SB Live! CT4780
Quantum3d Obsidian2 200SBi
HP ML350 Hotswap Bay
Hitachi 73GB 10K
Seagate 73GB 10k
Hitachi CD/DVD







Also got this in the works for 98SE and Dos era stuff.

A-Trend Freeway FW-6400GX/150/WS Slot-1/Slot-2 board, to be paired up with a Voodoo5 5500 and a hopefully a P3 Xeon 1Ghz/256kb.





 
#26 ·
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Originally Posted by johnvosh View Post

How much did you pay for this board? I had a look on eBay and a seller wants $347!
I paid 80 shipped when I got mine about 7 months ago.
 
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