Without wanting to be nasty, I'd say that motherboard is past its best and, even in the day, those VIA chipsets could be, err, problematic. If there was any excuse to get rid of it, I'd be taking it.
Roughly, while it works, fine, but don't spend money on upgrading it.
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Originally Posted by frankbell
According to the motherboard specs, the mobo maxes out at 2 GB RAM. That's brawny enough to run most Linux distros, as long as you aren't doing heavy-duty stuff like editing video.
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While the comment about 2GB is technically correct, if you look at:
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- Max. capacity of system memory: 2GB
*DDR400 for 1 DDR DIMM slot, Max. 1GB
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It seems that this is one of VIA's chipsets that only supports the full memory speeds if one RAM stick is in place, and automatically underclocks the memory if two are present. Not only is this a bit nasty, but some motherboards even have a BIOS that lies about whether the memory at full speed, or not (which is very nasty) and is a clear sign that they couldn't get the chipset working reliably with the additional loading of two memory sticks.
So, going up to the 'full' 2GB will slow memory accesses down, and while that may not be enough to make the board run slower, overall, if you actually using that amount of memory for what you are doing (ie, swapping is very slow, so, in comparison, this slow down is slight), it is hardly good news.
