saving dual socket 462 - ASUS A7M266-D + GeForce 6800 in action 

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I love how the northbridge chip looks like a k-6

Cool system! So glad the mainboard was repairable. Contact cleaner easily removes those pink, sticky, bubblegum-like thermal pads Asus used back then. I love how some old AMD northbridges of the Athlon MP and early Opteron era look like little K-6s :-)

I had the exact same configuration ! I first used a 6600GT, but on Linux there was an incompatibility between the card and OpenGL, so I changed it for a 6800. The goal was playing Far Cry :) I used 2 Athlon XP 1800 modified. I loved this computer ! But it was a bit noisy. My first dual CPU was a BP6 with 2 Celeron 433 and a Voodoo3.

It's almost like the previous owner didn't know that paste goes on the Die only.

Great Video! It is funny to see the DIE in the chipset was more protected than the one in the CPU

for the pink stuff on the chipset i recommend heating it up a little and then it wipes off with a paper towel

I've been waiting for this video for years. Thanks pal.

аж "олдскулы" свело, отличное восстановление, еще и двухсокетной системы 👍

Oldschool 2 CPUs system is so interesting

Back then, I would have lusted for a dual-cpu board, given the multitasking capabilities. That said, _nowadays_ I think if I were to get another SOcket A motherboard at all, I'd specifically want one that has the 4-pin EPS plug _that works._ The Abit KW7 I had before shipping it off did have said power plug, but still refused to boot with a PSU that had any less than 20A on the 5V rail, even though it's implied that such a power plug was meant to divert CPU power from the 12V rail. If anything, a dual-CPU Socket A board probably needs that 4-pin (or even 8-pin ) EPS connector more than a Pentium 4.

хорошее железо тех лет, по которому только слюни пускать могли. 😥😥😥

Liked these AthlonMP cpus and boards except NOSSE

What a cool board! AGP Pro and 64-bit PCI and everything.

😍 I would LOVE a Dual Socket 462!

"saving dual socket 462" doing gods work my friend, now lets see it in a finished (all asus) build with that asus panel 🤞😉

white ceramic heatsink compound i havent seen that since 386/486 days, thats all its good for.

what a lucky guy !! I've spend years trying to get my hands on this motherboard with no luck . extremely rare to find on Ebay , and too expensive when it's avalaible , around $300

thank you for saving this technology, your voice is relaxing as well

Good cleaning job on the Athlons. I built a dual 2600 MP system in 2008 - I spent a fortune on it, I have no idea why considering what I could have built for a fraction of the cost with much more power. That chip really looks like a K6

what a cool system dual Athlon MP very nice

And I thought that the brown slot is the x6 slot due to the absence of the white part.

I had the next version up of this board. It was a bit glitchy, but really liked dual channel ram. Had a really nice set of 512meg high speed DDR for it that got stolen which still shits me to this day.

LOVELY MP Processor

i picked this same board up for 10$ with dual athlon mp 1800+ and some blown caps about 6 months ago i sent it out for repairs a little while ago. got it back and i booted it up for the first time today and installed win xp a radeon 9800 pro and 2 gb ram. need to find a case to put it in now

Фатальный недостаток конфигурации - крайне медленный контроллер памяти. Если сильно захотеть, заморочиться и найти athlon xp 2600+ на ядре thorton, замыканием мостиков включить 512кб кеша и поддержку многопроцессорности, то можно очень сильно удивиться цифрам в бенчмарках, производительность почти как у pentium d и ранних core 2 duo, но увы и ах, медленная память, и нехватка инструкций sse2 сокет а сгубила.

1:34 - I recommend Nitro thinner to remove such hard thermopads - thermoglue.

Great rescue! I have the Tyan version the Thunder Pro dual Athlon MP but needs a recap.

0:40 Always nerve-racking, did it countless time and always, always one slip from disaster. Butt this configuration is dream build.

oldschool but cool...😍👍

5900 vs 7600 points, Gainward wins! really beauty of a card

asus retro!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤💙💙💙💙🤍🤍🤍🤍💙💙💙💙💯💯💯💯

LIKEEEE!!! Always liked amd k7 systems more than intel on this era, at the time i went from duron800, a thunderbird then a thoroughbred B jiuhb that i still have and still works. Currently, my closest retro system is a barton 2600+ running W2K. Can that run dual bartons?!? :D

Молодец👍

I have something very similar but I could never get my board to post, and I think it was because of power supply incompatibility long ago. I'm curious what power supply you were using here in this video to get yours to work? The other possibility is that my motherboard may have always had a defect of some kind, I'm really not sure and I haven't revisited checking it out in many years... however, it was purchased brand new so I don't think it should have anything wrong with it all. I will try it out again sometime when I can get to it because I always wanted to make a server out of it. Thanks for the video and all the info contained within it!

PCI-X slots too? Beast motherboard

Nice preview!👍👍

too funny ... the last days i was playing on my MSI K7D with MP1800+ ;)

good video, good repair, another board and on top of that dual amd!!! greetings. From Madrid. Spain. 🇪🇸

Basically, you can pencil mod any Athlon to AthlonMP 😆

imo a weird era for this hardware. Too "new" / "fast" to be vintage, too slow to be useful for most peoples expectations today. As a person from the era, it's nostalgic, sort of except most of what is memorable from that era is still technically playable on todays hardware (unlike older stuff, which most has been emulated at this point, if not all of it). Not by any means knocking the video or anything, I just giggled a bit seeing a 6800 being saved. I remember when Oblivion came out and I was playing it on a 7800GTX

Damn, seems like every package gets drop kicked your way.

Cool

I remember the day when the north and south bridge ruled the world and having 512 MB's of ram meant you were a absolute Baller...

I passed up a tyan dual socket A board like 2 days ago. I was thinking the power requirement must be ridiculous for dual socket A's. What amps would be needed on the 5v? I should've bid on that I think. It went so cheap.

Would you be looking for upgrading the cpus/overclocking them?

i had a k7d master i could never get to behave lol

Best choice to repair that Mainboard. Im also using Socket A Barton 3200+ together with GF 6800. Good Combination. But the Barton is not strong enough. Much thanks for that video 👍 I also have a video of mine. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0c7rddxZ7iQ.html

1:32 - If You find hard getting old toothpaste removed try to use WD-40. Just spray it lightly onto it and wait for few secs. It may take few attempts to clean fully but way easier & cleaner than using a nail :D

The low FPS on HL2 its VGA or CPU bottleneck?

13:49 isnt that PCI-X slot? isn't it so rare?

How did you manage to install HL2 episodes on XP? Via a steam emulator? Been trying for a few years to get this to work (I’m jealous! 😂)

Hey man, what we can do with this stock of thousands of k6 heat spreaders?... -Hold my bear.....

Promo*SM 🤭

Ah yes, socket a amd Has no thermal guard, and very fragile

does your 6800 unlock pipelines?