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The Only Famous Motherboard

Cathode Ray Dude - CRD
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3 HN users recommended this documentary3 months2025 score 3
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN recommends it as an excellent history of the famous ABIT BP6 board.

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.

“Cathode Ray Dude's channel has a great video about the history of this amazing motherboard” (HN, 2025)

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3 Hacker News comments

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@runlevel1 Jan 2025 Recommends
on HN thread Railroad Tycoon II
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]
Excellent retrospective on the dual-Celeron motherboard
@throwaway2037 Mar 2025 Recommends
on HN thread 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
> 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]
History of the ABIT BP6 motherboard
@svakak Dec 2025 Recommends
on HN thread What Happened to Abit Motherboards
Ah, Abit, the maker of Only Famous Motherboard as CRD woud call it in this long, but interesting, video. [this video]
Long but interesting video about Abit's famous motherboard

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