old socket 7 motherboard?

smadge

smadge

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it would be real useful if anybody could tell me some stuff about socket 7 cpus and mobos. i have this old 233 mhz pentium socket seven processor and motherboard. what kind of memory does it use? video? any help would be nice. :)
 
They use 168pin SDRAM SIMMS (ok they might be old enough for EDO but i dont think so). Video is PCI for the most part (*struggles to recall if AGP was around then ... i dont think, if not, the AGP cards of the day offered no advantage over PCI ... kinda like PCIe vs AGP now)
 
thank you. ya i dont see any apg slots on there. they also have three pci ports and three things that look like pci but are huge and black(?EDO?)
 
My old boards takes both sd & edo. No agp though..

smadge said:
three things that look like pci but are huge and black
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That's Isa, even slower than pci.
 
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those big black ones are ISA slots. The RAM is 168pin SDRAM, its probably an Intel 430TX chipset but even if its not I don't think VIA was still using EDO
 
These motherboards usually use 72-pin FPM (70 ns) or EDO (60 ns) RAM. You should use them in pairs. And all of the modules should use the same timing (60 or 70 ns). There are special modules (50-20 ns), but these are very expensive and rare, too. And I'm sure your mobo won't be able to use them. Most of these mobos can use SIMM modules up to 32MB. But there are 64MB modules too, you should use them if your mobo supports.
Newer (mostly ATX) mobos can use SDRAM, too. :D Most of them can use DIMMs up to 64MB. Some of them can use 128 and 256 MB modules too, you should see the manual of your mobo. :eek: WARNING: The memory speed will be 66Mhz. Be very careful when buying any modules.
I have a Cyrix MII-PR300 (quite good, it's like your processor). I haven't got any AGP, too. So I use an S3 Trio64 (2MB) video card and a Woodoo II (12MB) 3D accelerator. They work well together, I can play Re-Volt, Disciples II, Celtic Kings, Colin McRac Rally 2, and other games.:)
But there are many PCI 3D cards, you shuold buy one. Their price is about 10-20$.
One more: these mobos can use hard drives up to max. 8GB (usually 8.000.000 Byte :(). If you want to use bigger hard drive, you should create and format a max. 7GB partition for the OS, and an extented partition with logical drives ON AN OTHER COMPUTER whitch can handle bigger hard drives. After that you will be able to use your winchester, Win98 (and up) are able to handle these hard drives.
 
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praetor, agp came out around the time of the super socket 7 motherboard (100 mhz fsb)
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Ok well regardless, when AGP initially came out, it offered no significant advantage over any PCI video card of its generation :) which was the point i was trying to make :)
 
Praetor said:
SIS might also be a player i know they were more active back then
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I have 2 s7's, both are the SIS chipset.

One is from a packard bell, it has an Intel s7 MMX 233MHz, 2x SD DIMMS, 2 PCI, 1 ISA, Phoenix BIOS

The other one is from a custom built PC, it has 3 PCI, 3 ISA, 2x AGP, 2 SD DIMMS, and 2 SIMMS, AMD s7 k6/2 333MHz
 
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