Flashback Friday - Dual Pentium 450Mhz

Believe it or not, there was a time when processors only had a single core and to get better performance you had to double up.  For this Flashback Friday I give you a Tyan Tiger S1832D Dual Pentium motherboard.  This particular motherboard was designed for Pentium II based processors however I was running dual P3 450Mhz procs and matched it up with some PC-100 memory.

It is actually rather painful to think back on those days knowing that we can buy 8 and 10 core processors but when this system was built it was considered an elite enthusiast PC that I used mostly for 3DStudio MAX rendering, animation and AutoCAD.  Of course I played games on this machine and it ran flawless.

Of course after a year or so I upgraded to a dual Pentium 3 800 EB based system and this particular motherboard became part of a development server.  

Some interesting things about this board is the single AGP slot (important at the time) and a jumper based CPU selection.  Those jumpers would set the FSB and multiplier and was an easy way to overclock the system at the hardware level.  Tyan was/is a US based system board designer and was well known for their server board designs and multiprocessor motherboards for workstations.