Few questions about the ASUS A7A266

[Guest]

I don't know if you remember me but I asked for some help regarding purchasing a mobo given my situation and was pointed pretty strongly to the ASUS A7A266.

The board does look great (http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/socketa/a7a266/index.html) but there are some questions I have about it that I can't seem to find on the page. Maybe someone who has the board can help.

1. Can this board support more then 1 hard drive (I am thinking about buying a new hard drive but don't really want to go through the process of reinstalling everything that is on my old one)?

2. Is 1.2 GHz the maximum speed that this board can handle?

Once again, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Stan

 

[Guest]

Hi here,

The Asus A7A266 motherboard can support up till 4 hd. There are two IDE controllers which support a master and slave disk on each controller. I you need more get a scsi controller.

I am not sure about the maximum but I think it is 1663 MHz (12,5 * 133)

But be carefull about the Asus A7A266. A lot of people have problems with overheating of the CPU with this mobo (including myself) try to look at Asus A7M266 mobo instead : <A HREF="http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/socketa/a7m266/index.html " target="_new">http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/socketa/a7m266/index.html </A>

tressor

 

[FatBurger]

1. The board can handle up to 4 IDE devices. That can be 4 hard drives, 4 CD-ROMs, 2 of each, etc.

2. No. With BIOS updates, the board can handle an infinite number of processor speeds, as long as the FSB is 100/200 or 133/266, and they're the same form factor (socket type, voltage, etc). AMD says that they're sticking with it for quite a while, so you'll be fine.

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[FatBurger]

I hate it when two people post at the same time like that

I you need more get a scsi controller.

Or a PCI IDE controller. The controller and the drives are a LOT cheaper than going SCSI.

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[Guest]

But be carefull about the Asus A7A266. A lot of people have problems with overheating of the CPU with this mobo (including myself) try to look at Asus A7M266 mobo instead : http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/socketa/a7m266/index.html

tressor

I wanted something that would give me the flexibility of SDRAM and DDR in case I want to go to DDR in the future. See I have 448 MB of Crucial SDRAM that I am just not ready to part with .

Another question:

What type of power supply is needed for CPUs over 1 GHz?

Thanks.

 

[Crashman]

350 should work for almost anything you put on it.

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