267K views · Sep 30, 2024 · 1:03:23 · 3 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2025
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 points people here: HN recommends it as an excellent history of the famous ABIT BP6 board.
“Cathode Ray Dude's channel has a great video about the history of this amazing motherboard”HN comment, 2025
“An excellent retrospective on it here”
Excellent retrospective on the dual-Celeron motherboard
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
“Cathode Ray Dude's channel has a great video about the history of this amazing motherboard”
History of the ABIT BP6 motherboard
> 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 this long, but interesting, video.”
Long but interesting video about Abit's famous motherboard
Ah, Abit, the maker of Only Famous Motherboard as CRD woud call it in this long, but interesting, video. this video
