2006 style motherboards in 2026:>ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E 2006Also general anniversary edtion thread i guess; What iconic designs would you want brought back as an Anniversary Edition for modern hardware?ASUS FUCKING LISTENED!!!!! I HAVE emailed all companies and asked for anniversary editions with old designs (like the red transparent plastic of Radeon HD4850 cards), the classic silver/gray LaCie external hard drives etc)Bros, I literally got Fractal Design to make Deus Ex-style computer cases just by emailing them and then 2 years later it happened with the Meshify series (geometric/tesselated front panel design)Now we just need that iconic Gigabyte motherboard that gets posted here very frequently, but for current gen CPUsHere is more info on it:https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-crosshair/rog-crosshair-2006/
>>108983355this is the Radeon HD4850 i'm talking about btw. Couldn't attach multiple images
No one care; diy pc is dead and gone.
>asusa turd in a skateboard is still a turd
>>108983355>ASUS FUCKING LISTENEDshareholders? Yeah, line will go up soon, I promise!stakeholders? Nah, fuck them. Fuck customers coonsumer shepple, keep scamming them out of their money, line go up again is top priority.
>>108983355i don't get it. what motherboard looks modern
>>108983438eh, it's mostly modern, but the coloured slots and "bare copper" look (doesn't look like it's really all copper) is reminiscent of mid-'00s
This is actually really cool and I was 4 in 2006 so it's not just nostalgia. This is how tech companies should be branding and designing products.>AI OVERCLOCKING>AI COOLING II>AI NETWORKING IIwtf does any of this mean though? Can I disable it or will there be some AI model constantly messing with my CPU clock?
>>108983507>12 drive portsfucking hell, take me back. Nowadays high end boards can barely connect half of those at best.
>>108983355>2006 design>black pcblmaoId actually buy a green/red motherboard but this one is just another modern motherboard
>>108983659people don't tend to have setups with like 8 hdds and 2 odds + an esata port nowadays. most cases now you're lucky if you can fit one hdd in it
>>108983355That motherboard is still too big, blocky, and covered. I liked it when electronics were exposed and slim, the only bulk came from the electrical components, not heat dissipation.Maybe they could make budget motherboards with no covers or shrouds and green boards. Budget systems should be low power draw enough to do without metal shrouding on everything. And what does need heatsinks can just be big copper blocks.What I really want to see is retro cases come back. Both the beige kind and the early 2000s matte black kind with the curves. I don't like the flat look they have now or the angular look they had ten years ago.
>>108983673Are there any green mobos in current year? The only options I've heard of are server stuff and big name prebuilts like HP or Dell. Might be fun modding a prebuilt, but those still wouldn't have any overclocking.
>>108983355>2-Inch OLED DisplayNice. I'll put it in a case without a window.
>just consume this nu-2000s ovepriced motherboard you stupid fucking goy
>>108983673?
>>108983572Asus has had 'AI overclocking' as a bios option since the 2000s
>>108984300nta, but black was the exception back then. What makes the 2006 designs unique compares to now were the PCB colors.
>>108984305Oh, thats fair. As long as it's a real algorithm and not ChatGPT throttling the CPU because it hallucinates a GPU bottleneck.
>>108983355Looks exactly like modern pop music pretending to come from the 80s sounds like.Wake me when mainboards look like pic related.
>>108983355Literally the only 2006-looking part of it is the box.
>>108983355>2006>black as fuck jogger pcb as usualthe fuck are you sucking back along with that semen to make you think thats what I want?>>108984300>>108983507amazing, so even back then asus was this dogshit, no wonder.
>>108983355>fake copperNo thank you. I'll take one like this, thanks.
>>108983572>I was 4 in 2006You have to be 18 to post here, young lad
>>108985016what is this POS that's a 478 socket
>>108983572>wtf does any of this meanIt's AI. The AI's are money. Investors invest in AI's because AI's make money. How? They just do, AI's are the future.While in this case the "AI's" are literal, just these two letters added to anything. This is the core of all our current issues, people with more money than brain cells.
I miss setting up SLI or Crossfire with my graphics cards. I always hated seeing an unused RAM or PCI-E slot.
>>108985684reminds me of the time i was 16 and could afford a "new computer" (barely enough for ok parts, i'd saved up NZD$600). there was a moment where i'd looked at benchmarks having never used SLI before that a 2x 7300GS combination could, assuming 2x peformance, out-do a 2x 7600GT setup...i didn't know SLI was not nearly as good as the "2x performance" claims they made it out to be, or rather i was too naïve to know that "up to" meant often "almost never", but i'd seen just enough to opt out of it and bet on getting a second 7600GT later (i did get an SLI motherboard which was an extra cost)... i never did get a second 7600GT, they didn't play me all the way but they still got me with that sli mobo.
>>108983355>Eight-hundred United States petroshekels>Two PCIe lanes>2 x PCIe 5.0 x16 slots (supports x16 or x8/x8 modes)**Maybe your next email should ask for fewer m.2 cuck slots and more actually useful expansion slots. It's not like anyone can afford nvme drives right now to fill them all with.
>>108985292>>108985016THIS FUTURE, I CREATED ITIT'S REAL, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, IT IS REAL
>>108985784What are you going to put in them anon?
>>108983673Green PCBs were only used on the lowest of low-end garbage by the mid-2000s. Blue was the baseline "boring" colour in that era. The whole worrying about PCB colours (and especially the "hurr durr green or nothing") is a LARP from underage faggots anyway. All sorts of colours were common even in the 90s, and green was mainly only Intel boards, boards from prebuilts or server stuff. Yellowy-beige was a more common colour for your average consumer board. Then you had companies which adopted a colour as their own specific gimmick, like Soltek's cream and mauve PCBs. And people liked the variety, because they weren't tryhard fags on the internet pretending to be above such things.
>>108985845For me it's the ECS purple
>functions outside main
>>108983355What's the point of this shit when it's still a cheap imitation and not even functional? I'm not going to be seeing that shit behind the panel of my computer.
Cool, maybe they'll bring back the September 11 terrorist attacks and push back women's rights too.
>>108983355>lcd display on a motherboardwhy
>>108985784>United States petroshekelsjej
I always wanted to own a DFI lanparty boardThey had some great designs back then.Even the boxes looked awesome.
>>108985968what is this unholy combination of languages here
>>108986976same, lanparty motherboards were so sick
>>108987683I believe it is C and Python.>Unused variable: self.energyIt kind of makes sense if they're meant to be two separate programs.Feels slightly LLM-flavoured too.
if this looks 2006 to you, you are clearly late gen Z
