erek
[H]F Junkie
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Actually, I should sell my Abit IT7-Max2 v2. I can't imagine there are a lot of those out there either. Erek...first $250 takes it .
We all know the MAX3 was better..and I have the original box cooling fan and fan shroud...Ill sell mine for $700.00....
I had one of those also...great board. Sadly, I do not have it any longer.
Quite a lot of boards had their connectors there. and it wasn't a bad location either. Old ATX power supplies usually had very short cables for the MB. So the cable coming right out the psu on top bending back and down and it's right there where it is supposed to be, not going all over the case to the usual location.Got to love the placement of the ATX connector. I guess it didn't matter that much when you were building in a big beige box.
Quite a lot of boards had their connectors there. and it wasn't a bad location either. Old ATX power supplies usually had very short cables for the MB. So the cable coming right out the psu on top bending back and down and it's right there where it is supposed to be, not going all over the case to the usual location.
Actually I may not have mine either...I would have to dig through my attic.....I dont remember what happened to it so its probably up there with a bunch of other old shit I never threw out but no guarantees....
I had it paired with a 3.4/1M EE chip...what a screamer that rig was...
Good ole Abit... miss Abit boards..
gotta put a vote in for the OG BH6, that board help establish overclocking as a favorite past time for so many.Abit KT7A forever!
What, they delidded their CPU's back then too?
Definitely no offence to ABit meant by my like, but that made me laugh!
Is there a list of limited edition motherboards?
I want a Sabertooth Z97 Mark S
Yep, 20c drop in load temps from de-liding an Opteron 175. Those were the days.I used to delid tons of A64 chips, most AMD chips were bare dies back then also.
And having unlocked multipliers.. oh yeah.Remember the good ole' AMD Thoroughbred and Barton Mobile chips fitting in desktop sockets and overclocking like mad?
All you need is an opty165 and a couple of x1900xtx's for some kick ass retroYep, 20c drop in load temps from de-liding an Opteron 175. Those were the days.
And having unlocked multipliers.. oh yeah.
BIOS modding, voltage modding, pin-modding. So much fun.
Speaking of Abit, I ordered one of these boxed:
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All you need is an opty165 and a couple of x1900xtx's for some kick ass retro
Back then, you really needed all of those expansion slots for stuff like sound cards, networking, possibly even USB 2.0/FireWire when those started becoming more common.It's kind of startling to see how sparse motherboards were back then. Oh, and $500? I think I'm going to have to give it a miss.
Abit KT7A forever!
Man I hated the socket a heatsink retention system. Always had to put the heatsink on crooked and hope for the best. Then when it came time to take it off, you needed to use a flathead screwdriver and a ton of pressure and hope you don't slip off. I will admit I damaged a motherboard or 2 back in the day. Along with an fx51 in a delid attempt. In hindsight, those chips only oced like 200mhz, so I should've left it alone. That was before I got banned from eocf for calling out the site owner in a thread I made calling out the site owner. THAT in hindsight, though, was the right move.I used to delid tons of A64 chips, most AMD chips were bare dies back then also.
Man I hated the socket a heatsink retention system. Always had to put the heatsink on crooked and hope for the best. Then when it came time to take it off, you needed to use a flathead screwdriver and a ton of pressure and hope you don't slip off. I will admit I damaged a motherboard or 2 back in the day. Along with an fx51 in a delid attempt. In hindsight, those chips only oced like 200mhz, so I should've left it alone. That was before I got banned from eocf for calling out the site owner in a thread I made calling out the site owner. THAT in hindsight, though, was the right move.
I still have my de-lidded Opty175. I've also got a few other S939 CPUs.
Lowest ATI cards I have that can do Crossfire are 6870's.... I do have some X850XT cards, but I don't have the special cable to hook them together externally.
the infamous Golden Orb, used one on my CUSL2-C Black Perl with a rare 1GHz P3 100MHz FSB, that thing ran all day at 1.33GHz with a simple FSB bump.Speaking of old socket mounting systems, my particular BP6 setup came with a couple of Thermaltake Golden Orbs, filed down around the bottom to clear the capacitors. (Caps that I need to replace one of these days, at that; the BP6 is one of the more infamous cases of a legendary enthusiast product suffering from the capacitor plague.)
The mounting system on those is a bit weird; you have to twist the heatsink to get the clamps to contract over the socket tabs. Clearly suited to the PPGA Celerons the BP6 was designed for, but I wouldn't dare try it on a bare die FC-PGA(2) chip for fear of damage.
the infamous Golden Orb, used one on my CUSL2-C Black Perl with a rare 1GHz P3 100MHz FSB, that thing ran all day at 1.33GHz with a simple FSB bump.