Purchasing a motherboard in the early days of computing was not the best experience considering the cheap knockoff technology that was floating around back then. Motherboards such as the ECS Xcel2000 SiS 620/5595 Chipset Slot 1 Motherboard P6SE-ML were used but were of low quality. I had nothing but bad experiences with this type of integrated motherboard. Thankfully we have better technology in 2023. My PRIME B560M-A motherboard is a thousand times better than that ancient technology, but a long time ago I made the mistake of purchasing this motherboard and installing it. It worked OK for a while, but it is not the best hardware to use at all.
| Motherboard Specifications | |
| CPU Interface | Socket-370 |
| Chipset | SiS 620/5595 |
| L2 Cache | N/A (on-chip) |
| Form Factor | microATX |
| Bus Speeds | 66 / 68 / 75 / 83 / 95 / 100 |
| Clock Multipliers | 1.5x – 6.5x |
| Voltages Supported | 2.8v / 2.0v (Auto-Detect) |
| Memory Slots | 2 168pin DIMM Slots |
| Expansion Slots | 0 AGP Slot 3 PCI Slots (3 Full Length) 1 ISA Slots (0 Shared / 0 Full Length) |
| BIOS | AMI BIOS |
This was very bad, but in the early days, you did not have the amount of data on the Internet that we have now. Here is a photograph of this old motherboard. I think it worked better with Red Hat Linux 6.2. Using Gnome 1.0 was a revelation after using Windows 3.1. But modern computers are much more fun, I do not miss 5.25-inch drives and IDE Hard Disks. That was pain. 5.25-inch disks are so slow to read.
