Mercury KOB KT266a FDSX motherboard

[Andy]

I purchased this motherboard today, but I coudn't fiind and reviews of it on google, I want to know if it was a good choice or a bad choice, here are the MB specs:

escription - AMD K7 Mainboard with VIA KT266A Chipset Design
Processors - 462 pin Socket A supports AMD Athlon (K7) processors
* Full series of Athlon/Duron CPU including the future Athlon processors.
Chipset - VIA VT8366(NB) & VT8233 (SB)
* VT8366 V-Link Host system controller and VT8233 V-Link Client to PCI/LPC bridge
* Peak Bandwidth 266MB/S 8-bit V-link Host Controller
* Support AGP 2.0 specification (4X)
- LPC I/O ?IT8712F
- System Hardware Monitor: Integrated in IT8712F
- AC97 Audio Codec
* Compliant with AC97 2.1 specification
System BIOS - Award 2Mb Flash EEPROM
- Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
- Full support for ACPI revision 1.0 specification
Memory - 2 DDR DIMM Sockets and 2 DIMM sockets support (can not be
- used simultaneously)
* Two 184-pin 2.5V DDR SDRAM (DDR266/DDR200) or
* Two 168-pin 3.3V SDRAM (PC133/PC100)
- Maximum: 2GB
I/O Interface - Supports Plug and Play function
- PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
- Six USB Ports (Four USB Connectors as header onboard)
- One - EPP/ECP mode parallel port
- Two - 16550 high-speed serial I/O ports
- Audio Ports (Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in, CD-in and game port)
- Dual PCI IDE interfaces - support four IDE devices (PIO mode 4,
- DMA Mode 2, Ultra DMA 66/100)
- Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
- ATX Power Supply Connector
- Ports, headers and others
* IrDA header
* Extra USB header (USB2/3)
* Front Panel MIC/Line-Out Header
* Green, HDD, power indicator LED headers
* CPU and Case Fan headers
* LAN Card Wake Up/Modem Ring Wake-Up headers
RTC & Battery - VT8233 included 256 byte of CMOS
- With CMOS hardware clear jumper
Expansion Slots - 5 PCI slots, 1 AGP slot, 1 CNR slot
Form Factor & Layers - ATX (304mm x 240mm), 4 Layers

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I want to know if its good for games like NFSU 2, San Andreas, CS Source

Here are my other components

Video card: nVidia GeForce 4MX440 64MB 128bits DDR
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 266MHz FSB

[Blackfury]

looks ok for me... but maybe a bigger video card might be better and 1GB of ram

the games are useing a min 256MB of ram

video card try a 128MB, it might be a little laggy with 64MB on San Andreas and CS Source

[Andy]

I have 512MB of SD-RAM PC133 (the bord support DDR-RAM and SD-RAM memory)
Could you recomend a specific card my AGP bus is 4X.

Thanks

[soeren]

Card...maybe a ATI Radeon 9600XT or eg.

[Marcin]

GeForce 6600 for AGP 4x/8x. Sale SDRAMs and buy DDRs. SDRAMs are slower and a bit more expensive.

P.S. Your chipset on motherboard is very good

EDITED : Hey mods this topic should be in hardware section

[Mixeur]