My new motherboard vs my old

brownninja97 · December 29, 2019

I got my new motherboard this morning and got really nostalgic all of a sudden, the pc I built back in 2014 impacted my life massively, I wont go into details but if you knew me from my old news days on this forum then you will remember how amazing it all was.

A lot has changed since I used to be so immersed in tech but I wanted to go back and look at my old parts vs my new parts starting with my motherboard.

So this is the first pc part I got, the Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H

The most insane deal, it was £70, brand new, the person that bought it got a amd cpu and messed up and panic sold it so cheap, this board was way out of my budget at the time but at £70 it was a massive steal and at that point I was honestly awe struck but how beautiful I thought it was, it was my first step into computers, the first part of my journey. The picture was taken with a Nikon D80 with a fixed 35mm if I remember correctly, unfortunately that camera was stolen.

And now we have the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro taken with a huawei p30 pro(if its blurry its gyazo being crap just click the picture for higher res)

Its the future, it looks as different as a motherboard can be, I remember back in 2013 if your motherboard had a fan on the southbridge then you would have had to send insane amounts, the kinda stuff linustech was barely even touching back then.

I'd love to go really indepth which I can for my old board but I dont know much about my new one aside from the ports it has.

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On a side note I do miss this community but I dont have the time to come back, I remember posting news like crazy, being on the wan show every week, talking with linus and slick about the crazy stuff I had written, then being approached by some outlets to write for them. it was crazy stuff, maybe one day I will come back. Heres to many more years of faffing around with PCs, im glad this forum is still going as strong as ever.