Motherboard Comparison

wallaceno1 · 06-26-2005, 03:42 AM

Would appreciate some knowledgeable expert help.

Just got a desktop and am trying to determine it's equivalent family (version) to Pentium (P4,P3...P1,486,386 etc.).

I am no expert but did find that the motherboard is an ASUS A7A-266 Bios Revision 1006. System information states that it has an AMD Athlon(tm) 1200 MHz Processor. It also has something called a "south bridge" ALI M1535O(orD?)+A1. I know that it can take either DDR (2 banks) or SDRAM (3 banks). Right now, it has 2 sticks of PC100, 100MHz totaling 128MB. I understand I could easily put more in more memory (Up to three PC133-133MHz or up to two PC2100-266 sticks). Not sure on how many MBs of each for maximum (maybe 2GBs for DDR and 3 GBs for SDRAM). Would like to know that too.

Many thanks.

Wallace

Bunchofstuff · 06-26-2005, 05:19 AM

try to get everest home edition ( its free ) and it will tell you a whole lot about your system , prolly your rite about the maxium memory , just search google for the motherboard to pull up some info on it... hope this helps

06-26-2005, 03:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
wallaceno1 New Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 4	Motherboard Comparison Would appreciate some knowledgeable expert help. Just got a desktop and am trying to determine it's equivalent family (version) to Pentium (P4,P3...P1,486,386 etc.). I am no expert but did find that the motherboard is an ASUS A7A-266 Bios Revision 1006. System information states that it has an AMD Athlon(tm) 1200 MHz Processor. It also has something called a "south bridge" ALI M1535O(orD?)+A1. I know that it can take either DDR (2 banks) or SDRAM (3 banks). Right now, it has 2 sticks of PC100, 100MHz totaling 128MB. I understand I could easily put more in more memory (Up to three PC133-133MHz or up to two PC2100-266 sticks). Not sure on how many MBs of each for maximum (maybe 2GBs for DDR and 3 GBs for SDRAM). Would like to know that too. Many thanks. Wallace

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06-26-2005, 05:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
Bunchofstuff banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: USA , Georgia Age: 19 Posts: 491	try to get everest home edition ( its free ) and it will tell you a whole lot about your system , prolly your rite about the maxium memory , just search google for the motherboard to pull up some info on it... hope this helps