AOpen Debuts The Funniest Motherboard Ever

Posted by chrisd on Monday June 3, 2002 @01:19PM from the if-this-is-real-i-will-buy-it dept.

Anonymous Coward X-11 writes "Has AOpen gone flipping nuts by putting vacuum tubes on its motherboards? AX4B-533Tube No, it's not replacing logic ICs with discrete components. The tubes are part of the on board audio. Not sure if they are serious about this. April 1 was two months ago." As an owner of a tube headphone amplifier I applaud AOpen's move to accomodate the high-end audio enthusiast, while simultaneous wondering about the ability of a switched psu to properly drive a tube amplification stage cleanly. There's no way this is for real, right? Right? Here's a link that seems to work pretty well. And this looks pretty, well, real. Update: /. reader Jedi1USA noted that HardOCP has more pics of the board.

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Re:Ahhh... by 3th3rn3t · 2002-06-03 13:25 · Score: 0, Troll

next thing we will see will be "Coax display output" ... go figure , some people never learn !
Oh sure, and next thing you know. . . by kfg · 2002-06-03 13:39 · Score: 1, Troll

Macintosh will be a computer.

KFG