I'm trying to get the board running to its fullest. Any driver assistance would be appreciated. Since I only started building PCs in 2003, I'm accustomed to mobo manufacturers providing drivers on their website. Granted, the absolute latest drivers for third-party hardware like chipsets and ethernet …

derSammler wrote: CMOS was never replaced by flash, only the mask ROM was. What do you mean by mask ROM?

In other words, when did motherboards start using flash ROM chips to hold both the system BIOS and the CMOS settings? What were some of the first motherboards that used re-writable flash ROM chips, while ditching the CMOS chip entirely, or relegating the CMOS chip to just keep time?

Ok one minor nitpick as I was browsing through some old articles. The last Athlon to release in 1999 was the Athlon 800 (512KB). So that should be allowed on the 1999 cpu side. https://www.anandtech.com/show/424 December 20, 1999 article "As if that were not excessive enough, with rumors that Intel …

Does anyone have evidence of the fiscal year being used in a PCB manufacturing codes?

Thanks for the benchies. Wasn't the DDR version of GeForce 256 released in 2000, though?

That's Wikipedia for you; there's not a single citation in the Rush section and precious few overall. We know the 8MB cards are real, at least. Can anyone confirm that some 8MB versions are clocked higher? Perhaps they did unadvertised clock bumps ala Matrox Mystique 170. I'm considering whether to …

From the wiki (yes, I know): The Rush had the same specifications as Voodoo Graphics, but did not perform as well because the Rush chipset had to share memory bandwidth with the CRTC of the 2D chip. Furthermore, the Rush chipset was not directly present on the PCI bus but had to be programmed …

I'm learning a lot of about hardware dating. I'll look first for the PCB manufacturing code next time. https://abload.de/thumb/dscn5071a8asih.jpg It's July 19 - July 25, 1998. This has me curious about typical production timetables, as the northbridge sticker was placed and/or printed 2.5 months …

Feel to use this thread to check the actual release date of general old hardware. ----------------- The requirement for my latest builds is that the hardware was released and obtainable in a given calendar year. In this case, the year is 1997, and I was hoping I'd snagged an Abit LX6 motherboard …