socket 370 that supports DDR

Hi.

Im new here to the board and the whole overclocking world.

I have been wanting some more performance from my current computer. I have a Dell Dimension 4100 which has a 933 pentiumIII, 128mb s.d.RAM, 20g.b.harddrive,and a g-force2MXwith only 32mb on it.

I would like to try my hand at overclocking but I dont what motherboard I have. I am sure it is not friendly for such things.

So in looking around I found a motherboard from Soyo that looks good to me.

However I have a few questions.
It is the SOYO 7VDA it uses the Via Apollo chipset and says that it supports either pc 1600 or pc 2100 DDR upto 1.5 GB.
So I was wondering do you think I could use the new 433mhz DDR, since it will be operating on only one side of the clock pulse(I assume) then that would give me 216.5mhz to work with.
I think that would be good for the overclock probably help stability and so on. I just need to know if it would work?

Also another big question I have is that there is no manual wat to lock-out the PCI or AGP, such as jumpers or dip-switches.
Instead the Soyo homepage says that it can be locked using BIOS settings.
So imwondering if this is an effective way of setting the PCI and AGP or do I really need the manual on-board settings?

It says that it also supports Ultra ATA 100 is this a could harddrive system?

Thanx alot

Welcome to OCforums!

You are aware that you're not going to just swap out your old Dell board for a new MoBo, right? Dell has (amoung other things) a proprietary ATX connector and non-standard MoBo risers and locations.

As for Socket 370 DDR boards, yes there are some but IIRC there's not much performance to be gained by doing this.

Aopen AX37+

MSI Pro266R

Asus CUV266

and more that I don't remember.

Performance won't increase because the P6-arcitechture isn't designed to take advance of DDR-memory.

breez said:

Performance won't increase because the P6-arcitechture isn't designed to take advance of DDR-memory.

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I agree. I have a Supermicro 370sda that is socket370 w/ DDR and I didn't really care for it. can't sell it either.