Motherboard compatibility test
Abit BX 133 Raid

Dell Dimension 4100

System specifications

CPU Single Socket 370:
Pentium III 500 MHz - 1 GHz
Revision 1.0
Chipset Intel 440BX
Expansion slots 5 PCI
1 AGP
1 ISA
Storage I/O Onboard EIDE
Front Side Bus 100/133 MHz
Windows 2000 test results Windows Me test results
Windows 2000 test results

Tested configuration

CPU Single 1-GHz Pentium III
BIOS Award version 6.000PG date: 12/21/00
Memory 256-MB SDRAM
Storage Used the secondary EIDE channel
Software Matrox Video Tools 3.0 with Adobe Premiere 6.0
AGP Millennium Flex 3D
PCI 5
PCI 4 RT2000 codec card
PCI 3
PCI 2 Sound Blaster 128 CT5803
PCI 1 3Com network card
ISA 1

Additional required software

We installed patches and drivers in the following order:

  1. Microsoft Service Pack 1 for Windows 2000.
  2. Microsoft Hot Fix Patch, Q260233w2ksp2x86en.exe.

 

Windows Me test results

Tested configuration

CPU Single 1-GHz Pentium III
BIOS Award version 6.000PG date: 12/21/00
Memory 256-MB SDRAM
Storage Used the secondary EIDE channel
Software Matrox Video Tools 3.0 with Adobe Premiere 6.0
AGP Millennium Flex 3D
PCI 5
PCI 4 RT2000 codec card
PCI 3
PCI 2 Sound Blaster 128 CT5803
PCI 1 3Com network card
ISA 1

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The information in this document is subject to change. For the latest updates to this information, please check this site often. Matrox does not guarantee that the hardware listed as recommended will perform adequately to meet any particular customer's needs. This document shows our results at the time of testing. Changes to these systems may have occurred since completion of our tests. Contact the motherboard and computer system vendor for particular BIOS versions. Other untested computer systems may provide adequate performance; however, you may experience configuration difficulties. This document was last updated April 11th, 2001

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