How will i know my motherboard's socket # and bus speed?

monsteromen · 10-28-2006, 08:31 AM

ok so heres the thing so i wanna upgrade my crappy ass computer but i just can't seem to find out what the socket for my motherboard and processor is and i dont know the bus speed for my motherboard my current processor is amd duron 893 Mhz. the reason for the bus is that i've read somewhere that if u want to increase ur ram u should have the same bus speed for ur motherboard and ram stick or watever u call it. oh one more thing how will i know what kind of ram my motherboard supports by that i mean is it SDRAM DDRAM DDR2???

thx

Ku-sama · 10-28-2006, 11:12 AM

it should be PC100-PC133, 266MHz FSB socket A (462)

damientbayless · 10-29-2006, 05:21 AM

And to be honest it'd be cheaper to build from the ground up. SD-RAM is more expensive then DDR400 these days.

jp198780 · 10-29-2006, 09:20 AM

if you download/install Everest, it will tell you everything about your pc..

10-28-2006, 08:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
monsteromen New Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Philippines Posts: 15	How will i know my motherboard's socket # and bus speed? ok so heres the thing so i wanna upgrade my crappy ass computer but i just can't seem to find out what the socket for my motherboard and processor is and i dont know the bus speed for my motherboard my current processor is amd duron 893 Mhz. the reason for the bus is that i've read somewhere that if u want to increase ur ram u should have the same bus speed for ur motherboard and ram stick or watever u call it. oh one more thing how will i know what kind of ram my motherboard supports by that i mean is it SDRAM DDRAM DDR2??? thx Last edited by monsteromen; 10-28-2006 at 08:51 AM.

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Ku-sama banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Computer Cave. AKA: King Computer Inc. Age: 18 Posts: 5,312	it should be PC100-PC133, 266MHz FSB socket A (462)