A Blast To The Past

[Nelly]

Abit KR7A-RAID was the first motherboard I bought from OcUK back in 2000 or early 2001, ran that along with an AMD 1700XP.

Used a 3DFX Voodoo 5500 64MB for playing EverQuest, the image quality on the Voodoo 5 creamed all over Nvidia cards at the time.

 

[easyrider]

A useful site for pin modding voltages and fsb on Athlon / Barton. Abit (and DFI) had good bios but this was still useful although small pieces of wire or silver paint were fiddly and cutting bridges was worse.

https://www.ocinside.de/html/workshop/pinmod/amd_pinmod.htm

I did that with an intel mobo.

 

[Vince]

I looked through and saw the abit nf7-s v2 and basically did /thread in my head right there. I still have a working one of those epic epic boards.

 

[Begbie]

Snip

Had the same board!

With a 3200 (IIRC) in it, pretty sure my uncle is still using it in his arcade machine!

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

My main heroic motherboard was the Abit NF7, which was awesome.
I remember OcUK doing an awesome deal on the first DFI 939 Crossfire motherboard (no way I'm remembering that name), couldn't resist at the time even though it was a pain with ram.
The colour scheme was great. Wish we could still get motherboards like it.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Loads of the above boards bring back happy overclocking memories, i think my most fun was had with a Phase Change cooled 3.06Ghz P4 purchased on release day running at well over 4ghz, happy days, still don't miss the dielectric grease, horrible stuff.

 

[Kei]

Abit KD7-S with my old Athlon XP2500. Used to use a gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2 which I gave away.



Athlon64 3700 San Diego in a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D


Swapped the 3700 out for an opteron 275

 

[Evil-I]

I looked through and saw the abit nf7-s v2 and basically did /thread in my head right there. I still have a working one of those epic epic boards.

Ah had one of those too with a barton 2500m. Overclocked like a dream!

 

[IT Troll]

I have fond memories of the DFI Infinity 975X/G and even made a custom skin for their Smart Guardian hardware monitor.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/infinity-975x-g-custom-skin-for-smart-guardian.17679001/

I’ve still got my various 3DMark scores online for this and the ABIT IS7 before it.

 

[Rroff]

I have fond memories of the DFI Infinity 975X/G

Great boards but nasty brick bug in the BIOS with one of the memory voltage settings - took me 3 dead boards to work out what it was :s