Throwback boards.. Would you?

[dexT]

Am I the only one that would by vintage looking boards from manufacturers past styles? The Gigabyte EPYC board is very nostalgic for me, I loved those X58 boards and it's a spitting image of them. 

 

If ASUS did a throwback to the X48 REX/P45 Max II Formula/X58 REX II I'd bust a nut and buy 2 or 3 lol, it's the most attractive board ever, esp with red RAM 

 

[PlayStation 2]

I'm a man of practicality over looks, and if they were practical, I wouldn't mind one.

[Gumi Rokkaku]

 

Classic

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I'm a man of practicality over looks, and if they were practical, I wouldn't mind one.

Well old boards did have VRM heatsinks that actually cooled the VRMs... 

Surely that's a good enough reasons for old-like boards to come back!  

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Gumi Rokkaku said:

 

Classic

looks like someone tried making an amusement park in rollercoaster tycoon

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Well old boards did have VRM heatsinks that actually cooled the VRMs... 

Surely that's a good enough reasons for old-like boards to come back!  

and blue

[just_dave]

The times when VRM heatsinks were actually heatsinks

[Coaxialgamer]

my favorite board ever :

 

A true enthusiast product.

[ProjectBox153]

Man, those boards aren’t vintage. I’d like to see a modern board with a 90s  Pentium 2 style. 

[Himommies]

The exposed metal has a certain sexiness to it

[TheRandomness]

Either:

 

Or:
 

 

That.

[dexT]

14 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I'm a man of practicality over looks, and if they were practical, I wouldn't mind one.

They'd probably be low-end or ultimate baller so possibly practrical

 

10 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Well old boards did have VRM heatsinks that actually cooled the VRMs... 

Surely that's a good enough reasons for old-like boards to come back!  

The best are the NB sinks on the EP45 and EP45T Extreme. A mans board 

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

my favorite board ever :

A true enthusiast product.

Someone was actually selling one of em for £100 plus a pair of xeons on a FB selling group I was in...

Too bad it was too cheap (for that motherboard) and he was a tad dodgy so I didn't jump on it  

[Mr.Meerkat]

Just now, dexT said:

The best are the NB sinks on the EP45 and EP45T Extreme. A mans board 

Might as well be a GPU cooler!

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

why does this board look like a fucking stadium

[TheRandomness]

Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

why does this board look like a fucking stadium

It's a DFI Lanparty X58 board from 2009.

[NumLock21]

Dual AMD socket 462

 

Socket 7, works with both AMD or Intel socket 7 cpus

 

Dual Xeon Slot 2

 

Intel Slot 1 and Socket 370. This was when Intel was moving away from slot based Pentium 3 cpus to socket only cpus.

 

"Quad Core" Pentium Pro

 

Intel Slot 1

 

AMD Slot A

 

 

 

 

Not a motherboard, but a special cpu. The fan is powered by contacts on the cpu itself. so no wires to plug in.

 

Why upgrade the whole board, when you can just buy a adapter

[dexT]

3 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Might as well be a GPU cooler!

Back when the mobo was just as important as the CPU for overclocking. Legit OC.

[aisle9]

If someone would find me a working X58 board in good condition and not a Chinese knockoff that didn't cost an arm, a leg and my left nut, I'd be all over it.

[dexT]

@NumLock21 reminds me of my Abit boards. Looking for a IC7 MAX3 if anyone has one.

[dexT]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

If someone would find me a working X58 board in good condition and not a Chinese knockoff that didn't cost an arm, a leg and my left nut, I'd be all over it.

I've been seeing EVGA X58 Classifieds on ebay lately for around $100. Dumb luck or what they go for I'm not sure.

[NumLock21]

Just now, dexT said:

@NumLock21 reminds me of my Abit boards. Looking for a IC7 MAX3 if anyone has one.

 

Also back then there were no RGB light strips. You have cold cathode tubes. Some are even UV. I think DFI Lan Party was the one that made boards that reacted to UV light.

 

[aisle9]

1 minute ago, dexT said:

I've been seeing EVGA X58 Classifieds on ebay lately for around $100. Dumb luck or what they go for I'm not sure.

Most of the EVGA boards have "Error code 68" or something like that buried in there, or you just discover when it arrives that it has a memory controller issue. They work, but they've got issues.

 

Source: I know. I bought an X58 Classified for $110 on eBay from a seller who had a bunch of them, got a POST code error that indicated a possible memory issue, requested a refund as the board has a very short lifespan ahead of it, and was told no by the seller on the justification that all of his EVGA X58 boards do that and resetting CMOS fixes it.

 

I got my money back on a INAD claim, but still. Resetting CMOS fixed it for about a day. Those EVGA Classified X58 boards have not aged well.

[dexT]

12 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Most of the EVGA boards have "Error code 68" or something like that buried in there, or you just discover when it arrives that it has a memory controller issue. They work, but they've got issues.

 

Source: I know. I bought an X58 Classified for $110 on eBay from a seller who had a bunch of them, got a POST code error that indicated a possible memory issue, requested a refund as the board has a very short lifespan ahead of it, and was told no by the seller on the justification that all of his EVGA X58 boards do that and resetting CMOS fixes it.

 

I got my money back on a INAD claim, but still. Resetting CMOS fixed it for about a day. Those EVGA Classified X58 boards have not aged well.

Ah that's why then. They were really good back in the day. For non-benching I think I'd save and wait for a deal on a ASUS X58 Supercomputer. Best board if not overclocking and benching.

 

EDIT: Not the asrock the ASUS x58 p6t7 ws supercomputer.

[dexT]

Would you spend more than $150 on a board that was decked out with quality features but styled after the signature styles of time periods in the past?