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Miss the way motherboards used to look back in LGA775 and Socket 939 days? Going to be honest, the new looks of motherboards just doesn't look right to me. Too much flashy perfectly machined and things with logos and graphics with LEDs everywhere. I don't mind LED fans since they light a case, but I miss the heatpipes and raw computer look when taking a peek inside an LGA775 or 939 machine. I miss heatpipes and old style heatsinks..
 
I can say I don't miss the tiny activate cooling heat sink fans like on DFI nf4, glad they got rid of those
 
Speedeu4ia said:
I can say I don't miss the tiny activate cooling heat sink fans like on DFI nf4, glad they got rid of those
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I wasn't a fan of those either, I just liked the look of the heatsinks and pipes running around the board. Same with those clip on fans that ASUS would include all the time with their motherboards.
 
I kinda feel the same. The more industrial look of the 775 era was an aesthetic that I preferred, but as it is with these in general tech fashion changes. I forgot what board it was but it had a copper heat-pipe loop that came up a couple inches off the board. I wanted that board just because of that.
 
Jeremy C said:
I kinda feel the same. The more industrial look of the 775 era was an aesthetic that I preferred, but as it is with these in general tech fashion changes. I forgot what board it was but it had a copper heat-pipe loop that came up a couple inches off the board. I wanted that board just because of that.
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Probably the MSI P7N SLI Platinum? My brother has that board still in his other PC. There are a couple I like a lot, some of the ASUS boards had some intricate heat pipe setups. There was also that MSI board that had the built in waterblock on the Northbridge from the factory which was sweet.
 
Nailed it! I loved that board. :) Make a board like that today and coat the copper in nickel, paint the board black and it will sell.
 
I told him if he tears down that PC he should frame that old motherboard lol. It is an awesome board. If someone gives me something green and black with silver pipes and heatsinks I'll gladly give them my money.

Supermicro came close, I was actually going to buy this board if I went with the 7000 series, but I have yet to upgrade and here we are in the 8000 series now.
https://www.supero.com/337-thickbox_default/c7z270-cg.jpg
 
http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n510/UrbanFuturistic/Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R.jpg

Ahhh....775. With a color-scheme only a...well, I don't know who would love it. Blue PCB, red, yellow, green and purple everywhere! Kinda looks like Mardi-gras. Or a Boy George video.

I feel you on the heat-pipes and what not, but those color schemes had to go. Somehow, and I am not sure how, I missed out on this phase of computing. I remember having a Dell Pentium 4 HT, the ones in that slick black case they had. But after that, I don't remember what I had, all I remember was it was an eMachines. Then I bought a Mac. Then Core i happened and I started building again.
 
I have a Socket A ASUS in plain view it's great looking in all it's brown glory.....from 2002
 
I can't stand the new kitsch l33t h4x0r gamer trend.

It was a relief working on some Supermicro builds after doing gaming desktops.

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Nope, dont care one bit.
I prefer larger heatsinks with better cooling capacity.
 
UrbanFuturistic said:
http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n510/UrbanFuturistic/Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R.jpg

Ahhh....775. With a color-scheme only a...well, I don't know who would love it. Blue PCB, red, yellow, green and purple everywhere! Kinda looks like Mardi-gras. Or a Boy George video.

I feel you on the heat-pipes and what not, but those color schemes had to go. Somehow, and I am not sure how, I missed out on this phase of computing. I remember having a Dell Pentium 4 HT, the ones in that slick black case they had. But after that, I don't remember what I had, all I remember was it was an eMachines. Then I bought a Mac. Then Core i happened and I started building again.
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I didn't mind the colors so much, I don't like yellow so I never had anything yellow. My MSI 650i SLI was pretty sweet though. I could go for the current color schemes, but with the more industrial older look of the 775 era. Idk, that Z270 Supermicro I linked above was pretty nice, was the only board that reminded me of the older board looks.


Nenu said:
Nope, dont care one bit.
I prefer larger heatsinks with better cooling capacity.
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Gotta keep them mosfets cool :p. I don't care if the heatsinks are larger, I just don't like how they look now. Guess I'm just stuck in the 478/775 generation since it's when I first got into building and customizing my PC's.
 
I still have both, running at home right now!

1) web surfing box for kids
socket 939 with overclocked opteron 148 CABBE

2) MAME arcade
socket 775 with C2D 8500 running at 4.0ghz (originally was 4.27ghz but I dialed it back)
Check out the monster heatsink. Heatsink alone weighs almost 1 kilogram!

here is a review on the heatsink for old times. http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2061
 

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Looking good Iron! I have an old Abit with some Corsair RAM and an E8400 on it sitting behind my current machine. Unfortunately the Abit board is dead. I had a GTX 285 in that, was my wifes first gaming desktop. I remember DFI had some motherboards with pretty large tower heatsinks on them, like the DFI-Lanparty-lt-x48-t2r.


Also, my bad for the title, I was tired and was reminiscing about old motherboard styling while looking at new boards.
 
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