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PS/2 ports?
I'm still mad they killed PS/2 on recent motherboards. So much for NKRO I guess.
Never mind recent motherboards, I'm still salty about the era of boards from 2004-2010 or so which had USB ports but the BIOS would refuse to accept inputs from them until after POST so you'd have to dredge up a separate PS/2 keyboard and jack it in to be able to configure the damn thing or use the boot menu.
And I had at least one board from that time period which has this same flaw, but with the added layer of joy and excitement that they've removed the PS/2 port block in order to appear "modern." It's still there, of course, but only as a pin header that you need to access from inside the case and plug a breakout board into. If you lose that board the gods themselves couldn't even help you. I used to keep it stuck with painters tape to the inside of the case side panel.
Had one of these in a server rack. Which was all kinds of fun because the rack KVM was USB. We ultimately just left the PS/2 keyboard plugged in and sitting on top of the server in the rack. Given the shitshow which was cable management in those racks (we shared them with several departments), that keyboard was hardly the worst sin.
I thought I had dreamed those days
Terrible, dark dreams
Don’t want break your illusion but for the most part those were just USB adapters so you didn’t had any of the implementational benefits because under the hood it was still USB
Not for the keyboards I have. And yes, I’ve tested it.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/wasd-keyboards-code/
What do you mean? Its not the keybord that can decide if the hardware on the mobo is just a ps2 to internal usb adapter or not.
The one built into my previous board did full NKRO with every key on that keyboard.
I don't know about AM5, but I'm running a 5700X3D on a motherboard that still has a PS/2 port. (Not that I'm using it, but it's there.) You can still have a pretty modern system with PS/2 if you really want it.
X670 tier boards were some of the last to have PS/2. I got an X870 board :(
Mine is a B350 -- I'm still running the same motherboard I used 7 years ago with my old Ryzen 1700X. Considering how much depends on the CPU these days instead of the chipset, does it even really matter if the chipset is older?
Chipset itself doesn’t matter, it it dates the board.
On AM4 basically every board has it. Maybe the really dire boards would skit it, but they’re skipping so much more first. Starting with early AM5 (6XX) and it actually started disappearing and now with 8XX it’s getting much less popular.
Also how’s your B350 board holding up? My X370 board died after about 3.5 years, and my friends X370 had been acting up after about 5. Maybe the higher end chipsets are cursed? I sure hope my new board lasts because I paid a fuck ton for it.
Just fine so far, but thanks a lot for jinxing it! 😠
It's a Gigabyte AB350N-Gaming WiFi, which is a mini-ITX board, so having the B-series chipset was probably less about making it cheap and more about the features of fancier chipsets being wasted on a board that didn't have enough space to implement the connectors for them. Therefore, it might like slightly higher quality than some other B350 boards.
Don't forget the xt/at port