The Abit BP6 taught me so much about multithreaded programming. Programs that previously worked fine crashed instantly due to incorrect locking. It really forced me to think differently about concurrent programs.

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)