The Only Famous Motherboard

Cathode Ray Dude - CRD · 266.5K views · 2024-09-30 · 1:03:23

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2025–2025

Topics

Computer architecture & CPUs Demoscene & retrocomputing

What people said

svakak · 2025-12 · Recommendation
Ah, Abit, the maker of Only Famous Motherboard as CRD woud call it in this long, but interesting, video. [VIDEO]
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throwaway2037 · 2025-03 · Recommendation
> 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: [VIDEO]
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runlevel1 · 2025-01 · Recommendation
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: [VIDEO]
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