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The Only Famous Motherboard

Cathode Ray Dude - CRD · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Computer architecture & CPUsDemoscene & retrocomputing

What it is

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.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2025, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “An excellent retrospective on it here”

    Excellent retrospective on the dual-Celeron motherboard

    runlevel1, 2025-01 · Recommendation · in “Railroad Tycoon II”

  2. “Cathode Ray Dude's channel has a great video about the history of this amazing motherboard”

    History of the ABIT BP6 motherboard

    throwaway2037, 2025-03 · Recommendation · in “3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)”

  3. “in this long, but interesting, video.”

    Long but interesting video about Abit's famous motherboard

    svakak, 2025-12 · Recommendation · in “What Happened to Abit Motherboards”

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Topics: abit bp6, dual celeron, smp, retro hardware, windows nt 4

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