Mad Onion

I miss that place. When overclocking was a true skill for the minority! I didn't know Futuremark was bought and gone.
 
mrk said:
Oh and if you didn't have an Abit KT7-A or KR7 series mobo, then you were basically worthless!
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Had them both and the NF -7, ABIT were the dogs ********.

A *1700+ thoroughbred was my sweet spot I bought three at a time from OCUK. Never found the apex one but not for not trying.

*I think I misspoke, it was the 1700+ (1433Mhz). The 1400+ was the first athlon (palomino?) after the thunderbird.
 
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There was another brand too I forgot about, they did the blue mobos, what was it...
 
Hagar said:
Gigabyte were blue but there was another brand, DFI lanparty, we're they blue?
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DFI were black I think, the PCB at least. As mrk says, the rest of the components on the board were made up of as many different colours as they could fit.

I had a Lanparty NFII after my first NF7-S died. It was ****. Kept it for a week, returned it and bought another NF7.

I was gutted when Abit disappeared.
 
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agw_01 said:
DFI were black I think, the PCB at least.

I had a Lanparty II after my first NF7-S died. It was ****. Kept it for a week, returned it and bought another NF7.

I was gutted when Abit disappeared.
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Abit were nice boards in general at the time, but I'll never forget that they used the dodgy knock off capacitors in a bunch of their boards*, so pretty much all the KA7's and a number of other boards they made in a certain time period had the capacitors that failed after about 2-3 years (the classic KA7 bulging caps).


*I think the story that came out was one of the companies making the capacitors stole an incomplete formula for a new capacitor from another one, and Abit used the company with the incomplete formula because they were cheaper (before the problem and reason became known).
 
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