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    The Only Famous Motherboard

    Cathode Ray Dude - CRD

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2025

    YouTube

    1:03:23 · 266K views · Sep 30, 2024

    Cathode Ray Dude's hour-long retrospective on the ABIT BP6, the dual-Celeron motherboard. He covers early multiprocessing, its legend, a build, running NT 4, benchmarks and the pros and cons of early SMP.

    HN recommends it as an excellent history of the famous ABIT BP6 board.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @throwaway2037Mar 2025· in “3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)”

      > Half of HN alive at the time probably had that motherboard - ABIT BP6 LOL. Yep. Me too. Cathode Ray Dude's channel has a great video about the history of this amazing motherboard: this video

      RecommendsView on HN
    2. @runlevel1Jan 2025· in “Railroad Tycoon II”

      Was that the period of time when you got more bang for your buck building a PC with dual-socket Celerons than one high-end Pentium? EDIT: An excellent retrospective on it here: this video

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @svakakDec 2025· in “What Happened to Abit Motherboards”

      Ah, Abit, the maker of Only Famous Motherboard as CRD woud call it in this long, but interesting, video. this video

      RecommendsView on HN