Asus Centennial Motherboard (100 year rating)

[Hugo Drax]

Anyone know anything about the rumored ASUS centennial motherboard? It is supposed to be designed to last 100 years 24/7. Using hand crafted components, 24K gold traces, etc..

 

[BUnit1701]

If it comes with a 20 year warranty, I would bite.

 

[pcunite]

Cool, I like their ROG line with Japan-made 10K Black Metallic capacitors. Should easily last 10 years without overclock. 100 sounds a bit extreme ...

 

[avtar2008]

they have gold parts, then will surely up in the thieves list.

 

[7beauties]

I beg your pardon, if you're hoping a motherboard will last 20+ years I worry that you're over emphasizing long term reliability over long term functionality. The seminal - and work horse - BX440, when Intel introduced Pentium II, AGP and PCI, won't run Vista, Win 7 or Win 8. And if it can run XP, support for XP is going away entirely. Computing technology continues evolving so that what is current becomes extinct in the future, in fewer than twenty years.

 

[BadThad]

Might be good....for a trip into outer space. Here on earth, I don't see the point.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I beg your pardon, if you're hoping a motherboard will last 20+ years I worry that you're over emphasizing long term reliability over long term functionality. The seminal - and work horse - BX440, when Intel introduced Pentium II, AGP and PCI, won't run Vista, Win 7 or Win 8. And if it can run XP, support for XP is going away entirely. Computing technology continues evolving so that what is current becomes extinct in the future, in fewer than twenty years.

because some of us want to be able to play solitaire to the end of our days in our geothermal powered fallout-bunkers when the apocalypse comes

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

because some of us want to be able to play solitaire to the end of our days in our geothermal powered fallout-bunkers when the apocalypse comes

lol. Awesome post.

 

[crashtech]

Someday we'll be like, "Remember when you could load Windows from one DVD?" And the kids will be like, "DVDs? I haven't seen one of those in years!"

 

[chimaxi83]

they have gold parts, then will surely up in the thieves list.

I highly doubt the gold traces on a motherboard are worth the time of peeling them off.

Someday we'll be like, "Remember when you could load Windows from one DVD?" And the kids will be like, "DVDs? I haven't seen one of those in years!"

DVD? D:

 

[Melina42]

Sounds great but the minute you install AISuite or flash the BIOS on that board, it'll be dead. :B

 

[dawp]

Someday we'll be like, "Remember when you could load Windows from one DVD?" And the kids will be like, "DVDs? I haven't seen one of those in years!"

dvds? I remember loading windows from a stack of floppies. When was the last time software was released on floppy?

 

[Sheep221]

I will buy it and take good care so my kids and grandkids will inherit it.

What is your source OP? If I google this, the only result is this thread.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Excuse me while I try to stop laughing.