I guess boards just are not sexy anymore? Moving so much onto the CPU responsible? I remember when we would have huge threads about a single board or chipset. Intel, AMD, SiS, VIA, Nvidia, it was the wild west. So many brands – FIC, Abit, Asus, Albatron, Epox, Aopen, DFI, Chaintech, ECS, Shuttle, MSI, Soltek, SOYO, and more.
The IGP was on the board back then. Nforce chipsets were my jam. I built a bunch of systems with the Shuttle MN31N using the Nvidia nForce2 IGP + MCP-T (nForce2-GT)