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Socket A Boards - still in service?

zandor said:
Alas, both my socket A boards died on me. One had bad caps, the other fried.

The one that fried was an MSI K7D Master-L, so dual socket A. I bridge modded a couple of Athlon XP "Barton" 2500+ CPUs to run on it & OC'ed them a bit. Then one day the main power connector melted. I guess I had too much draw on the PCI slots. All of them were full, including a second vid card in addition to the one in the AGP slot. After it died I replaced it with a dual socket 940 Opteron setup.

The one with bad caps was a cheap mATX board I stuffed into a 15" Grape iMac I got for free from work when they were throwing out old computer lab machines. I was working for a university at the time. I gutted the iMac, mounted a 14" LCD inside the chassis, and mounted the board on the back side of the screen. I had some fun showing up at lan parties with that rig.
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Yeah that was the big issue with the early dual socket A boards, they drew too much power through the ATX connector. Melting of it was a common issue, I knew several people who had that happen to them back in the day. That was one of the reasons why I wanted the Asus A7M266-D board as it had the 4 pin 12V and the aux power connector. I friend sold me his back in the day, and I loaded it up with cards and drives and used it for my server for over 10 years. it was on 24/7 for all that time, and never had any issues.
 
Starfalcon said:
I have kept everything I have gotten over the years, got quite the tech hoard. I have accumulated a ton of retro stuff, and have a soft spot for anything Abit, along with socket 7, socket 370, and socket A. My favorite board is the Abit NF7-S, I have 4 of them currently. My original one from back in the day plus the ones I have gotten over the years.
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I also have a soft spot for Abit and also still have my original Nf7-s in its box with all accessories. I have my first KT7A v1.3 board, Kg7, Kd7 raid, Kv7, and a KW7. The KW7 I still have setup running winxp. I also have a several Msi and Asus boards and a couple ECS boards to round out the pile.
 
I never had one but always thought the Soyo Platinum boards where the coolest looking

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WilyKit said:
I never had one but always thought the Soyo Platinum boards where the coolest looking

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I'm was dual socket goon at that time so IMHO the best looking socket A boards had 2 CPU sockets and 64-bit PCI slots in addition to an AGP slot. Dual vs. single was a totally different thing back in those days.
 
I had several Epox boards as those were my favorite. Wifey decided to redecorate while I was out at work. I get home, the whole livingroom including my corner was....different. I asked her what she did with all my old pc parts? She replied: "Oh that old crap? I got tired of looking at it"

I've been divorced 15 years now and I still cry thinking about what that bitch did with my stuff.
 
AbsoluteAggressor said:
Lurker here. Saw the Soyo board posted and man. I look at mine everytime I use my half-bathroom.
AMD Athlon XP 2700+ in socket. The caps leaked out years ago.
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I just have to ask... are the capacitor electrolytes that leaked out in that ceramic jar labeled "farts"? Eternity in a fart jar seems like an appropriate final resting place for early 2000s bad cap electrolytes.
 
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