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3dfx_zombie

Limp Gawd
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Now you can also brag about the motherboards you've owned.
I'll start. My motherboards:

  • 1989: Whatever was in the 8086/XT machine
  • 1995: Some AT Pentium motherboard with separate cache module (Socket 7)
  • 1998: PC-Partner VIB804DS TX-Pro 512 kb PLBC (VIA Apollo-VPX / Socket 7)
  • 1999: Aopen AX6BC 440BX – ATX (Intel 440BX / Slot 1)
  • 2001: MSI 6330 K7T Turbo (VIA KT133A / Socket A)
  • 2004: Epox 4PDA3I 865PE (Intel 865PE / Socket 478) - crap, incompatible with my 9800Pro :rolleyes:
  • 2004: Asus P4P800E Deluxe 865PE (Intel 865PE / Socket 478) - it died.
  • 2007: Gigabyte P35-DS3R (Intel P35 / LGA 775)
 
2001: Random Gateway
2003: DFI NF2 Ultra Infinity
2005: DFI Ultra D
2007: DFI Blood Iron P35
2008: DFI LT X38-T2R
2010: Gigabyte 890GPA-UDH3
 
Some socket A board for my 800mhz tbird, no idea what it was
epox 8RDA
abit nf7-s
dfi LP nf2
dfi LP nf3 250 socket 754
dfi LP nf4 ultra-d
dfi LP nf4 ultra-d
dfi LP nf4 expert
foxconn c51xem2aa
asus p5b delux
intel xbx2
msi p35 neo 2 fr
asus maximus formula
asus maximus formula
asus m4a79
 
2000 Random Everex computer board for my K6-2 550mhz
2003 SOYO SY-KT400DU 462(A) VIA KT400
2003 BIOSTAR M7VIG PRO AMD SKT A
2003 ASUS A7N266-VM 462(A) NVIDIA nForce 220-D
2005 ASUS K8N-E DELUXE 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb
2008 ABIT IB9 P965
2008 ASUS P5E-VM HDMI LGA 775

My first 4 boards were killed by the dirty cheap electric company in my podunk town.
 
Mylex 16-25 MHz 386 full AT size (11" x 17")
FIC PA2007
FIC VA-503+
Gateway Intel 810i integrated mobo
ECS K7VTA3 ver. 8 (suddenly quit, never could figure out why, CPU OK)
Asrock K7VT4A Pro (replacement for K7VTA3)
ECS NForce3A (w/ BioStar BIOS)
ECS GeForce6100SM-M
Dell Optiplex GX270 (found several)
BioStar G41-M7
 
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1996: I think it was a Gigabyte or Asus Pentium board.
1998: Totem Intel PIII, first I had seen with error code LED.
1999: Gigabyte Slot A.
2003: Gigabyte GA-7DXR+
2003: Gigabyte GA-7NNXP
2009: Gigabyte GA-X58UD5
 
My first board for a p4 was a soyo SY-P4VGA
then a dell xps 200 board
and now my intel dg31pr.

Ive got no time line really. just boards.
 
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Dell Optiplex GX1
Dell Dimension 8100
Abit BD7II- Raid
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Dell Latitude 8600
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
DFI LANPARTY DK P35-T2RS
Asus Crosshair IV Formula
Asus P8P67 Pro
 
96 - No idea who made it. Probably a PCchips AT board.
97 - Tyan Titan Turbo
00 - Asus Slot A
01 - Abit Socket A
02 - ECS KT7A Pro
03 - Soyo Dragon KT333
04 - ECS 754 board
05 - Asus 939 board
06 - DFI Lanparty
07 - Winfast 939
08 - Asus 939 AM2 board
10 - Gigabyte AM3 board

If I recall 00 I purchased from a friend and it slowly died piece by piece, 01 I killed by turning it on with a video card not fully into the slot, 05 died when I was replacing a case and didn't notice a grounding post that needed to be removed, and 06 went bad due to a failing power supply that under-volted the rails. All the rest were sold off, or eventually retired and/or tossed.
 
LOL there is NO WAY I could recall all of the boards that I've used. In the past 10 years I have no doubt owned in excess of 100 machines. Sorry boys, I can't compete going back that far. I can barely recall what I ran 6 months ago. Side effect of too many projects that never end, I'm afraid.
 
sabregen said:
LOL there is NO WAY I could recall all of the boards that I've used. In the past 10 years I have no doubt owned in excess of 100 machines. Sorry boys, I can't compete going back that far. I can barely recall what I ran 6 months ago. Side effect of too many projects that never end, I'm afraid.
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Word. I can't remember half the motherboards I've had in the last 3 years alone...
 
LOL there is NO WAY I could recall all of the boards that I've used. In the past 10 years I have no doubt owned in excess of 100 machines. Sorry boys, I can't compete going back that far. I can barely recall what I ran 6 months ago. Side effect of too many projects that never end, I'm afraid.
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+1 =)
 
12/89-3/94 whatever was in an IBM PCjr <-- screwdriver in the modem slot... oops
3/94 - 8/94 Something with a 386SX-20 <-- died
10/94 - ?/95 Something with a 386DX-40 <-- gave to my sister.. then stolen
?/95 - 10/96 Some AMI 80486 VLB board <-- also stolen
12/98 - 2/99 some AMI 80486 PCI board <-- bios flash failure
11/99 - 12/99 something else for 486
12/99 - 7/03 Epox MVP3G2 <-- died to a bios modding failure
4/04 - 2/05 whatever was in an eMachine W4885 <-- broke a pin on the CPU trying to mod it
2/05 - 6/05 Biostar P4M80-M4
6/05 - 10/06 Jetway A210GMDS-Pro <-- sold, got back, sold again, got back again.
1/07 - 11/07 MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum <-- southbridge fan died taking the SATA ports with it.
1/08 Whatever was a Dell Inspiron 530
3/08 Whatever was in a Gateway GT5628
9/08 Asus P5Q Pro <-- Still on this one.
 
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I can't remember most of the motherboards, but here's a few:
~1999 FIC AMD 751 irongate for my first build
~ unknown brand/board for AMD Tbird 1.0 overclocked to 1.33 (Shuttle KT133A?)
~some board for my P4 1.6A northwood chip (can't even remember the brand)
~ another unknown board for the AthlonXP 2500+ barton (nForce 2 chipset?)
~unknown motherboard for Opteron x2 165 (I can't even remember the chipset)
Abit IP35 for Q6600
Gigabyte 790XT-UD4P for Phenom II x3 720
Gigabyte P55-UD4P for i5 750
MSI 785G board for Athlon 2 x3 440
 
- ASUS Maximus Formula SE (intel 775). Status: still running
- Gigabyte GA-EP41-UD3L (intel 775) Status: still running
- DFI UT CFX3200 DR-G (AMD 939) Status: still running
- Abit AV8-3rd Eye (AMD 939) Status: bricked, in landfill some where
- MSI 865PE neo2 (intel 478) Status: gave to mate, still running
- MSI kt7 (Socket A) Status: bricked, dumped on front nature strip
- Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 (Socket A) Status: unknown
- Asus P3V4X (intel slot 1) Status: gave to mate, probably in landfill
- Abit BH6 (intel slot 1) Status: probably in landfill​

can't remember much past the last MB in list. no doubt those brain cells were killed off b/c of alcohol /drug abuse.
had a vague recollection of a intel socket 7 and probably some form of 486 & 386 MB's
 
1998: Some Intel MATX that supported the Intel Pentium MMX CPU
2000: Some Gigabyte Intel board
2005: Some AMD Gigabyte and Intel board
2006: Some AMD ASUS board, Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G,
2007: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H
2008: XFX 780i Nforce, (Worst board I've owned) Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 (Best board I've owned), Gigabyte GA-M750SLI-DS4
2009: Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5, Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P, GA-M720-US3, Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5, GA-P55-UD6, GA-EX58-UD5, GA-X58A-UD7
2010: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9, Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD7, Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H, Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5
2011: Gigabyte GA-P67-UD7 (RMA back to the store when I heard about Intel's SATA flaw)

I've owned quite a couple of boards back in 2009 for some odd reason. The only Gigabyte board I have left is the UD9 which is current on my i7 rig and the Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H on my sister's rig.
 
I don't really remember the specifics of my earlier motherboards. The earliest one I can remember is the Tyan motherboard that we had on the old Pentium 133. On my Athlon XP build, I had a crappy PCCHIPS motherboard. When I built my Athlon 64 (s754) system, I used an Epox 8KDA3I. My current motherboard is an AM2+ Gigabyte GA-MA-770-DS3.
 
Primary machine only

1995 Old Enherieted 3x86 intel board
1996 Some Intel 4x86 board i paid way too much for
1998 Asus P2L97 Intel
1999 Asus CUSL2 Intel
2001 Tyan Trinity KT AMD
2001 MSI K7T Turbo 2 AMD
2002 Asus P4B Intel
2004 Asus A7N8X Deluxe AMD
2005 Abit AG8 Intel (Complete failure of a board, unstable, had all of about 2-4 weeks before it got replaced)
2005 EpoX EP-5EPA+ Intel
2007 Gigabyte P35-DS3R Intel
2010 Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
 
1999: Intel SE440BX-2 (in my Micron Millennia Max)
2005: Soltek K8AN2E-GR for AMD Skt. 754(loved the purple slots!)
2009: Biostar TPower I45
2010: MSI 785G-E53
2010: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
2011: Intel DP67BG
 
A huge amount of DFI 939 boards
Asus A8N32-sli
Asus P5B Deluxe
Asus P5W DH
DFI p965 dark
Asus Commando (had a bad time with this one)
Back to DFI P965 dark
Asus Maximus Formula SE
Evga 680i
Asus Rampage Formula
Evga 790i FTW
Asus P5E3 Premium
Asus P5Q Deluxe
Asus Maximus formula II (had a bad time with this one too)
Asus P5Q - E
Asus P6T Deluxe
Asus Rampage II Extreme
Gigabyte x58 UD5
Asus Sabertooth (current board)
 
Can't remember all of them, but a few of the memorable ones:

-shuttle 440BX (don't think it even had a real name) - first BX board
-Abit BX-6
-Abit BP-6 - Yeah, dual celerons!
-Abit BE6 II, BE6 II r2, BE6 r2w/RAID - I fried more of these boards than I can remember. It seems the 440BX didn't like 160+FSB and 100% CPU usage 24/7 for more than about 3-4 months at a time. Who knew?
-Some Tyan Tiger slot 1 board for dual 700e's running 1050
(some p4 setup... I try not to remember much about it but it was an intel chipset)
-P5n-E SLI - my first taste of the C2D and a non-intel chipset. Found it's ability to run a C2Q lacking and went back to intel pastures...
-Abit iP35-Pro - Still kicking as my main system for at least a few more months, though I think it will be retired before the end of the year for a SB or IB chip. Been my longest lasting setup by a LOOONG shot.

There were plenty of others as I was really big into running SETI@Home back in the day and had about 8 machines running in my place between my father and I back then. Parts came and went so much that there is no way to determine them all. Consider this a "best of" list. :)
 
1994 Acer Acros 486 (DX2/66 @ 80 MHz :D passive cooled with no thermal paste :eek:)
1996 Dell Optiplex Pentium 133 (no overclocking :()
1999 Abit BX-6 2.0 Slot 1 (Celeron 300A @ 450 MHz)
2001 Biostar M7VKG Socket A (Duron 700 @ 1 GHz)
2002 Iwill KK266-Plus Socket A (Athlon XP 1800 @ 1.8 GHz)
2004 Abit NF7-S 2.0 Socket A (Athlon XP-M 2400 @ 2.6 GHz)
2007 eVGA 680i SLI LGA775 (C2D E6420 @ 3.2 GHz)
2008 Abit IP35-Pro LGA775 (C2Q Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz)
2009 Intel DX38BT LGA775 (C2Q Q6600 @ stock)
2009 ASRock X58 Supercomputer (Xeon W3520 @ 3.5 GHz)
 
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