Hi Guys,
I've "inherited" a Packard Bell iMedia PC with Celeron/128MB RAM.
It ran very slow with Windows and with CentOS so I put a P4 2GHz in it which
didn't improve things a lot.
My next step would be to bump up the RAM to 1GB but I'm wondering whether
linux will be able to drive it a reasonable speed.
Any ideas?
Clint
Specification
Processor 1.. Socket 478 for Intel® new 0.13
micron-process Pentium® 4 processor
2.. 400 MHz FSB
Chipset 1.. North bridge: SiS650GX IGUI Host Memory
Controller
2.. South bridge: SiS961(B) MuTIOL® Media I/O
3.. REALTEK RTL8100L LAN chip
4.. Sigmatel 9721 AC97 audio codec for rev 2.0.
Realtek ALC101 AC97 audio codec for rev 2.1 and 3.x.
Front Side Bus 1.. 400 MHz
Memory 1.. Type: DDR266(PC2100)/DDR200(PC1600) - 184pin
2.. Max capacity: Up to 2GB by 2 DIMM slots
Internal I/O Connectors 1.. 2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus
Master IDE ports
2.. 2 x USB 1.1 connectors (4 ports by cable with rear
bracket)
3.. 1 x FDD port
Expansion Slots 1.. 1 x AGP slot (4x/2x-AGP 2.0 compliant)
2.. 3 x PCI slots (PCI 2.2 compliant)
Rear Panel I/O 1.. 1 x VGA port
2.. 2 x USB 1.1 ports
3.. 1 x RJ45 LAN port
4.. PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse
5.. Audio (1 x Line-in / 1 x Line-out / 1 x Mic)
connector
6.. 1 x COM port
7.. 1 x Game/Midi Port
CPU/AGP/DIMM setting 1.. CPU FSB adjustable (1MHz-linear)
via BIOS
2.. Multiplier adjustable via BIOS
Power 1.. ATX power connector and ATX 12V connector
2.. Power-off by Windows® 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP shut down and
switch
Form Factor 1.. Micro-ATX form factor, 4 layers PCB (24.4
x 22.7 cm)
H/W Monitoring 1.. System health status auto-detect and
report by BIOS
2.. H/W detect and report power-in voltage, CPU voltage,
and fan speed.
BIOS 1.. 2M bit flash ROM, enhanced ACPI feature for
PC98/Win98/Win2000/Me/CE/XP compliance, Green, PnP, DMI, INT13 (>8.4GB) and
Anti-Virus functions
2.. IDE#1~#2, SCSI, LS120, ZIP and CD-ROM bootable
Other Features 1.. @BIOST, EasyTuneT 4, Q-FlashT, GMCT
2.. Suspend to RAM (STR)
3.. Supports USB KB / MS wake up from S3
4.. Poly fuse for keyboard over-current protection
Bundle Software 1.. Anti-Virus OEM version
2.. GIGABYTE Windows Utility Manager
Driver 1.. SiS 650GX VGA driver
2.. REALTEK LAN driver
3.. SiS 7012 Audio driver(version 2.0)
4.. Realtek Audio Driver(version 2.1 and after)
Remark *Realtek Audio driver for M/B Rev. 2.1 and Rev 3.x
*SiS 7012 Audio driver for M/B Rev 2.0
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