Asus ALi Chipset A7A266

Excited I nearly tore the box to pieces trying to get at my lovley shiney new asus motherboard. Being an Abit fan id heard good things about Asus so wishing to upgrade to ddr memory and an Athlon xp processor I decided Id give Asus a chance. First thing youll notice about this board is its a tad larger than other boards so if you have a midi tower case be carefull inserting any cd rom drives as thier are some capacitors that are very close to where your drive will eventually sit. And thiers a great danger here of knocking one clean of if your a ham fisted kind of person. This is in theory a great board as this board will let you use your old pc133 memory till you ...

This week I bit the bullet, feeling flush from pay day and decided to get a new motherboard and processor, as well as new RAM to top and tail the progressive updates I had been making to my system since purchasing a Pentium III 800 MHz machine in August 2000. Having been loyal to Intel since 1995, I broke away and went for an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1466MHz) with 133MHz FSB, which was considerably cheaper than going for a similar spec Pentium IV. To go with this I of course required a new motherboard, and having bought an Asus P2B which was a great board when I bought a P II in late 1998, I decided to revert to an Asus board (the system I bought in 2000 had a ...