brinstar117
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2010
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By relevant, I mean a motherboard that served as the backbone for your main desktop computer the longest by virtue of having the longest upgrade path. I really want to hear about some crazy lengths some of you may have gone through to keep a motherboard competitive.
I imagine that there will be some good 'ol 440BX Slot 1 motherboards that will have survived from Pentium II -> Pentium III Tualatin chips through judicious uses of adapters and slotkets. Having a motherboard from 1998 to 2003ish in those days was insane, not to mention the Tualatins were outperforming Intel's Pentium 4 line.
I am sure that AMD motherboards will have nice long runs as the company has a long standing history of supporting their sockets long term.
Honorable mentions are welcome if you want to mention motherboards that just keep on truckin' even though they no longer serve as your main desktop. I'm sure I'll see file servers and firewalls galore.
I imagine that there will be some good 'ol 440BX Slot 1 motherboards that will have survived from Pentium II -> Pentium III Tualatin chips through judicious uses of adapters and slotkets. Having a motherboard from 1998 to 2003ish in those days was insane, not to mention the Tualatins were outperforming Intel's Pentium 4 line.
I am sure that AMD motherboards will have nice long runs as the company has a long standing history of supporting their sockets long term.
Honorable mentions are welcome if you want to mention motherboards that just keep on truckin' even though they no longer serve as your main desktop. I'm sure I'll see file servers and firewalls galore.