The Only Famous Motherboard

Cathode Ray Dude - CRD3 HN recommenders · 2025–2025
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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

@runlevel12025 · 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: [VIDEO]

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@throwaway20372025 · 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: [VIDEO]

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@svakak2025 · 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. [VIDEO]

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