Re: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - WOW!
Consider my mind blown. I knew there were a few, but that many seems kinda ridiculous. And IP35P and IP35 Pro - they couldn't have picked some letter other than P? That just seems to be inviting confusion.
I own various PCs with IP35 Pro, IP35-E on my workbench, and my main PC is IP35 Pro XE. I also have a KV7 and AN7. My first self-built PC was a KG7-Raid back in 2001. Can you tell I was a bit of an Abit junkie?
And yeah, it's unfortunate they closed. After some early bad cap issues, Abit seemed to use Rubycon, Sanyo, and Chemicon polys on almost everything except their budget boards.
My big thing right now is quiet PCs, since I suffer from recurring ear infections and often get tinnitus. Abit's bios-based fan controls were excellent and configurable to an almost obscene degree, at least on the high-end boards. Some of the low end Abit boards were not as configurable, but at least had something.
Sure, some current boards have fan control, but rarely on all of the fan connectors. Even more rarely are they as configurable as Abit's were (low voltage, high voltage, low temp, high temp, etc.) It was all bios based, so it was OS independent and no extra program was needed to run in the background.
Consider my mind blown. I knew there were a few, but that many seems kinda ridiculous. And IP35P and IP35 Pro - they couldn't have picked some letter other than P? That just seems to be inviting confusion.
I own various PCs with IP35 Pro, IP35-E on my workbench, and my main PC is IP35 Pro XE. I also have a KV7 and AN7. My first self-built PC was a KG7-Raid back in 2001. Can you tell I was a bit of an Abit junkie?
And yeah, it's unfortunate they closed. After some early bad cap issues, Abit seemed to use Rubycon, Sanyo, and Chemicon polys on almost everything except their budget boards.
My big thing right now is quiet PCs, since I suffer from recurring ear infections and often get tinnitus. Abit's bios-based fan controls were excellent and configurable to an almost obscene degree, at least on the high-end boards. Some of the low end Abit boards were not as configurable, but at least had something.
Sure, some current boards have fan control, but rarely on all of the fan connectors. Even more rarely are they as configurable as Abit's were (low voltage, high voltage, low temp, high temp, etc.) It was all bios based, so it was OS independent and no extra program was needed to run in the background.
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