THE VIDEO SHELF · abit bp6 motherboard
The Only Famous Motherboard
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 HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an excellent history of the famous ABIT BP6 board.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Cathode Ray Dude - CRD
- Topic
- abit bp6 motherboard
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2025–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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: [VIDEO]
runlevel1 on Hacker News · 2025-01
In Railroad Tycoon II> 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: [VIDEO]
throwaway2037 on Hacker News · 2025-03
In 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)Ah, Abit, the maker of Only Famous Motherboard as CRD woud call it in this long, but interesting, video. [VIDEO]
svakak on Hacker News · 2025-12
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