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The Abit ones are about 1-2 years old and the Gigabyte ones are within the last 3-6 months or so. Northwood and Prescott basically


I had an Intel motherboard that supported a blazing fast PIII 800. The BIOS POST took 2 seconds tops, and upgrades could be done in Windows (9x or 2000). Why it took so long for the rest of the industry to even consider such things is beyond me. I still have yet to see an AMD based system that POSTs in any reasonable amount of time, and it's rare to see a non OEM Intel box POST that quick.