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More info?)
Paul wrote:
>
> In article <41B39319.3937A9EF@hotmail.com>, WoofWoof
> <oftenbark@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Robert Hancock wrote:
> > >
> > > WoofWoof wrote:
> > > > I saw reference to an ECS P4 mb the other day which would accept
> > > > either DDR memory or PC100/133 memory. It struck me that might be a
> > > > painless way of gradually updating an aging P3V4X machine of mine.
> > > > (Not trying to make it top-of-the-line ... just a bit more recent).
> > > >
> > > > Are there any P4 ASUS mb's that take both kinds of memory. I'd prefer
> > > > to stay with ASUS since I'm familiar with them but info on other
> > > > manufacturers would be welcome too (particularly if ASUS doesn't cover
> > > > this configuration).
> > >
> > > I don't think Asus makes any boards that take both. It doesn't make much
> > > sense to upgrade to a Pentium 4 if you're not going to upgrade the RAM,
> > > PC133 will greatly slow down a newer CPU..
> >
> > I agree it wouldn't make sense if I was never going to upgrade the ram
> > but it does allow me to get the system up and running with the old ram
> > and spread the upgrade cost over several months. If you are living on
> > a fixed (pension) income, such things can be important.
>
> I have a P4B and three sticks of 512MB SDRAM I got cheap. I bought
> it at the time, as I already had the memory. The advice I got at the
> time, is buying more than a 1.8GHz processor wouldn't be a good
> purchase, as the processor would be starved by the use of the
> SDRAM. So, as long as your expectations from a board like
> that are not too high, it is a usable machine. Only serious
> gaming would be hampered.
I'm not even into non-serious (frivolous?) gaming so that wouldn't be
a problem ... especially as an interim step. Thanks for this response,
Paul. Lot's of good information and I appreciate it!
>
> Revision 1.05 or greater comes equipped with "AGP Warn" protection
> against illegally keyed video cards. With earlier boards, some
> really old (3.3V only) video cards, which didn't have the keys
> cut properly on the AGP connector, can damage the P4B Northbridge.
> The AGP Warn circuit stops that from happening, and turns off the power.
>
>
http://web.archive.org/web/20041205211907/http://www.asus.com.tw/mb/socket478/P4B/specification.htm
>
> The era of mixed ram modes, was something like A7A266 or TUA266. I
> bought a TUA266 and it was a mistake. The AGP slot was an unstable
> piece of trash. In any case, you can see a picture here. This
> is a S370 P3 era board:
>
>
http://web.archive.org/web/20040205190803/www.asus.com.tw/mb/socket370/tua266/overview.htm
>
> If you wish to do this style of "retro shopping", start here.
> Web.archive.org takes snapshots of websites and contains an amazing
> amount of data. Note that, some websites don't get archived carefully,
> as the website code must be manually edited. You may have to copy
> and hand edit the links on some of the archived pages to get them to
> work. That is great fun
🙂
>
>
http://web.archive.org/*/http://www.asus.com.tw/mb/mbindex.htm
>
> Enjoy,
> Paul
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