Appropriate Mainboard for following AMD Processors...

[vesther]

I just want to know...

I am going to be using the valid choices to determine which one I should get...

I want to know which Motherboards...

* ASUS A7A266
* ASUS A7M266

...would be appropriate to run under these two Processors...

* AMD T-Bird 266FSB 1.33GHz
* AMD T-Bird 266FSB 1.4GHz

...and I would like to know how much Micron ECC PC2100 Registered DDR SDRAM I need for the least.

I appreciate your help in this. Thank you.

- Mark Kim

[camaro]

Hey you live just south of me. Anyway. Both support DDR RAM and 266FSB AMD cpus. A7A is newer and also supports regular SDRAM and both 200 and 266FSB. That's kinda dumb if you ask me since memory is really cheap and why would one buy regular SDRAM133 when you can get DDR for almost the same. Same goes for 200 and 266 cpus. So A7M will be just fine. Another thing. You can just buy regular Micron DDR memory. No need for ECC or registered stuff. If you're running win2k, you'll need 256. For win98 get 128. You can always buy more if needed.

[samwichse]

Also, make sure you don't accidentally buy a board with built in spyware (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum5/HTML/006707.html)

[Imperion1]

I'll post this here too. Phoenixnet merged with award, so now they own the award bios.
I still think it was more of a buy out.

http://www.phoenix.com/pcuser/biosupgrades/bios_upgrades.html

Heres a list of all their motherboard manufacturer partners. http://home.phoenixnet.com/boards/index2.html

This is the only thing you will see about phoenixnet if you disable it in bios and don't install the software that comes on the driver cd with the mobo. http://home.phoenixnet.com/gls/index.html

[Spanky]

Actually I can see the reasoning for the SDram on the ali board also.

If you upgrade and you don't have the money for the DDR ram so you want to use your old ram at first.

I know DDR is cheap right now but broke is broke, if ya don't have the extra money for the ram you don't have the extra money.

also when you do buy the DDR I would say get the 256 (if you can afford it) right away because even though you can buy more later, who know if it will be this cheap and plus you only have to slots, what if you want more the 384 (play some simulation games and tell me you never need that much) but you already filled your board with a 128 and a 256?