![]() The only downside was noise driven the high speed 60mm YSTech fans I had mounted on top. It was actually proven to be more efficient and still stands as one of the best bi-metal based heatsinks you could by. This unique heatsink design used a series of extruded pins and instead of blowing air through the heatink it was designed to have air drawn up and away. The motherboard shown above is still fully operational and has two Pentium 3 800Mhz processors installed with Alpha heatsinks on each CPU. It seemed crazy at the time but, they were a fairly new company looking to get some exposure and to this day I think I was one of three sites in the world to actually review a Freeway Design motherboard. What happened next floored me (click bait anyone?)įreeway Design offered to send me the board in an exchange for doing a review for my website. On a whim I emailed the contact listed in the press release asking if I there was a chance to buy the board directly ![]() ![]() The problem was, Freeway Design only sold in APAC (Asia Pacific) Region meaning that there were no retailers in the US where I could buy the board. What was different about this motherboard wasn’t so much support for dual CPUs but that both CPU sockets were vertical along the motherboard whereas other boards of the time positioned them around the chipset making the board look cluttered. I believe the original press release was posted on Digitimes and showed a bright red dual socket motherboard built on the VIA VT82C694X chipset. ![]()
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