svakakDec 2025Recommends
Ah, Abit, the maker of Only Famous Motherboard as CRD woud call it in this long, but interesting, video. ▶ this video
in “What Happened to Abit Motherboards” · View on HN
The Only Famous Motherboard
The Only Famous Motherboard on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2025.
Cathode Ray Dude - CRD
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Cathode Ray Dude's hour-long retrospective on the ABIT BP6, the dual-Celeron motherboard. He covers early multiprocessing, its legend, a build, running NT 4, benchmarks and the pros and cons of early SMP.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as an excellent history of the famous ABIT BP6 board.
- people recommended it
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- 2025
“Cathode Ray Dude's channel has a great video about the history of this amazing motherboard”
What HN commenters said
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
throwaway2037Mar 2025Recommends
> Half of HN alive at the time probably had that motherboard - ABIT BP6 LOL. Yep. Me too. Cathode Ray Dude's channel has a great video about the history of this amazing motherboard: ▶ this video
in “3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)” · View on HN
runlevel1Jan 2025Recommends
Was that the period of time when you got more bang for your buck building a PC with dual-socket Celerons than one high-end Pentium? EDIT: An excellent retrospective on it here: ▶ this video
in “Railroad Tycoon II” · View on HN
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Computer architecture & CPUsDemoscene & retrocomputingabit bp6dual celeronsmpretro hardwarewindows nt 4