I feel like a lot of the tweaking features popularized by Abit are now available on any "gamer" board from one of the major manufacturers, Intel and AMD now eve

I feel like a lot of the tweaking features popularized by Abit are now available on any "gamer" board from one of the major manufacturers, Intel and AMD now even make chipsets targeted at that segment, and there are a lot more bins for CPUs these days, most of which come "pre-overclocked" even dynamically so with turbo-boost and the like. The Athlons and Durons of this era had exposed dies, just a few SKUs, no built-in thermal throttling or speed boosting at all, and oversized high-cfm heatsinks and fans felt like a new thing.