Like this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Abit_dua...
Ran the Celerons overclocked, as one did, and supposedly those were superior in thermals vs noise. Not that I had any reference.
As impressive as they look, and as effective as they were at the time, I believe even a modern stock Intel cooler would be more effective; CPUs of the time only had TDPs around 20-30W, in comparison to the 100W+ they are now at.
You are 100% correct, how could I forget? :(
I think I got it mixed up because I bought a Zalman GPU cooler which had similar design for my GPU some years after.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
The coolermaster cpu sink i'm using now is big, but not particularly pretty.
0: https://toffeex.com/heat-exchangers , https://toffeex.com/heat-sinks
After that I never found multithreaded programming particularly difficult. Challenging at times yes, but thanks to my newfound mental model not difficult.
I had those brass-looking cylindrical coolers[1] from Zalman, and the two of them next to each other was quite distinctive.
Had the motherboard for many years as a homelab server.
I bought a few more Abit boards after that, but the capacitor plague made me switch to Asus IIRC, and then they folded.
But the BP6 will forever be with me as a incredibly cool motherboard that did something unique in the consumer space.
[1]: https://www.cablesonline.com/soc370airrou.html (except brass finish)