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Werewolf said:
KA7 massif!

And the cool kids had a Globalwin 802 Tornado with the delta screamers, but no finger tips.
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Mine was a copper thermalright SK-7 with a delta fan tied on.

The ABIT advantage was their stupendous bios with wide ranging (for the time) settings and intuitive interface.
 
Werewolf said:
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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I remember that very well. I wasn't impacted myself but I did see a lot of machines (usually pre-builds with MSI motherboards) with very poorly looking caps inside.
 
Werewolf said:
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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Was a lot more than Abit affected by it - though a varied story with some failing after 2-3 years, other stuff at about 10 years - even hardware bought as "recently" as 2007-2008 could have been affected by it. Fortunately I dodged most of it other than a couple of network switches - other friends and family not so lucky.

agw_01 said:
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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DFI did a few different colour schemes - the LANParty boards were black with bright coloured components, some other higher end models were red with white/blue components, others plainer colours.

The blue boards were either Gigabyte, reference Intel or OEM boards made by companies like Fujitsu and noname brands.
 
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Jeez Nvidia chipsets.
Dfi län party with UV reactive PCI slots possibly an agp :p I can't even remember.
Slot 1 intel 400mhz pentium 2 .... Lol
Thunderbirds and Athlons very very frightening me.
Those were the days indeed , aluminium cases with razer sharp sides.
Goal posts for jumpers!
 
There’s plenty of Overclocking gems I remember from over the years. Nothing difficult, but the bandwagons everyone jumped on…

Athlon XP 2500 Bartons, seem to remember them having unlocked multipliers?

ATi X800 GTO, unlocking the extra 4 pixel pipelines via firmware upgrade.

nVidia 6800U, unlocking the pixel pipelines via Rivatuna.

And a shoutout to one of my iconic graphics cards, the ATi 9800 Pro. Seem to remember this and the XT being the card to have when Half-Life 2 was astonishing us all :p
 
mrk said:
There was another brand too I forgot about, they did the blue mobos, what was it...
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Gigabyte or Intel? Soyo had some exotics too.

re the 2500 Bartons, they were unlocked and lower power due to being mobile chips IIRC. I had one on a DFI Lanparty with some Corsair BH5, 250mhz fsb 1:1 ratio with the ram at 2-2-2-5. The good old days.
 
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Werewolf said:
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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Still got my first motherboard, an Abit BH-6 I ran the infamous Intel Celeron 300a slot1 CPU on (450Mhz for the price of 300MHz). Had it up and running a couple of years back testing all the old PC parts I have squirelled away (Anyone remember the Ageia PhysX PCI cards?)
 
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Got a new widescreen monitor? Best go looking for a settings.cfg so you can manually set your resolution :D
 
Anyone else used to use autoexec mods on USB sticks and floppy disks so that stuff loaded automatically and you could change the disk icons using it too so Homer Simpson etc would show up in Windows Explorer against the drive instead of the standard Windows icon?

#PowerUser
 
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I'm still running an ABIT mobo, an IP35 Pro with an E8400, OC'd to 3.6Ghz from the day I built it! So we're looking at what, around 13 years now! :cool:
 
Yes, I was a prime lurker on the forums and occasional contributor during the early 2000s (starting mainly with the release of 3DMark 2000).

It was my favourite benchmarking site and forum back then and where I would spend most of my 'internet time' (along with hardware review sites).

I also loved 3DMark (particularly back then).
 
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Freakbro said:
I'm still running an ABIT mobo, an IP35 Pro with an E8400, OC'd to 3.6Ghz from the day I built it! So we're looking at what, around 13 years now! :cool:
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Still have my AX78 upstairs, with box and bits.

Should hook it up and boot it to see if it still runs, should do as it did when it got put away. Can't remember what chip I have in it, I did get a beta bios on it to run a Phenom II but I replaced with a 3600+ or something iirc when I upgraded.
 
ltron said:
Yes, I was a prime lurker on the forums and occasional contributor during the early 2000s (starting mainly with the release of 3DMark 2000).

It was my favourite benchmarking site and forum back then and where I would spend most of my 'internet time' (along with hardware review sites).

I also loved 3DMark (particularly back then).
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That forum has a golden 3-4 years. Then everyone seemed to leave.
 
gjbf1 said:
That forum has a golden 3-4 years. Then everyone seemed to leave.
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I think they didn't really innovate much after that. I remember back in the day 3DMark was really unique, no one else did benchmarking like that and then you had the website and the leaderboard with all the world class overclockers doing things you thought weren't possible. I particularly remember Maki and Digital Jesus and talk of dry ice and liquid nitrogen.
 
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