Cabinet Type

Features

Older New

Increased ability

SMPS Type

AT

Advanced Power Management Feature

SMPS
Wattage

Less Higher Supports more number of devices which extract power from SMPS

Space

Less More

ATX

Well more the space more the devices can be added to machine and also helps
in better ventilation

Mother Bord
Features

Older

New

Increased ability

CPU socket/slot

Socket 7

Slot 1 or
This type of cpu socket/slot is required for latest
Socket 370A Pentium II or Celeron type of CPUs.

Front Side Bus

66MHz

100 or 133
MHz

The FSB should be supported by the CPU to be

used.

Ram Slots

72 Pin SIMM

168 Pin
DIMM

This allows to use 168 pin DIMM which is

faster than 72 pin SIMM.

IDE Interface

Ultra DMA 33

Ultra DMA
66 or SCSI

This feature depends on the IDE devices used in

the system. If the devices which support latest
type are used then the performance of the system
increases.

Integrated Devices

Without Onboard
With
Integrated devices
integrated
(example display, sound
devices
etc)

Eliminates the requirement for these devices

separately.

Onboard Cache
memory (only for
socket 7 board)

256 kb

512 kb

Increases performance of the system.

Slots

Lesser number of slots

More number
Enables to add more add-on cards.
of slots

RAM
Clock Speed

Cycle Time

6 MHz

166 ns

8 MHz

125 ns

10 MHz

100 ns

12 MHz

83 ns

16 MHz

62 ns

20 MHz

50 ns

25 MHz

40 ns

33 MHz

30 ns

40 MHz

25 ns

50 MHz

20 ns

60 MHz

16 ns

66 MHz

15 ns

75 MHz

13 ns

80 MHz

12 ns

100 MHz

10 ns

120 MHz

8.3 ns

133 MHz

7.5 ns

150 MHz

6.6 ns

166 MHz

6.0 ns

180 MHz

5.5 ns

200 MHz

5.0 ns

233 MHz

4.2 ns

250 MHz

4.0 ns

300 MHz

3.3 ns

333 MHz

3.0 ns

350 MHz

2.8 ns

400 MHz

2.5 ns

450 MHz

2.2 ns

500 MHz

2.0 ns

550 MHz

1.8 ns

Name of
Module

Typical Usage

Capacity

Voltage

Parity

Speed

Package

30 Pin Simms

286 and 386

Desktop
Computers

256Kb to 8
Mb

5V

8 bit and 9 bit

60ns to 80ns

DIP, PLCC and

SOJ

486 and 586

72 Pin Simms
Desktop
Computers

4 to 32 Mb

3.3 V & 5 V

32 bit and 36
bit

60ns to 70ns

DIP, PLCC and

SOJ

168 Pin
Simms

EDO/FPM
66 Mhz,
Most Desktop
64 bit, 72Bit
3.3V
&
5V
16 Mb to 1 Gb
100Mhz and
Computers
and 80bit ECC
133Mhz
SDRAM 3.3V

144 Pin
Sodimm

Laptop
Compatible
Computers

16 to 256 Mb

100 Pin
Dimms

Printers

16 to 128 Mb

184 Pin Rimm

Latest Intel

64 to 512 Mb

3.3 V

2.5 V

64bit and
72bit ECC
64bit and
72bit ECC

66Mhz and
100Mhz

TSOP

16bit and

600Mhz,

BGA

820 and 840

Rambus

18bit ECC

700Mhz,
800Mhz and
1Ghz (Under
Construction)

Hadrdisk
Mode

Data Transfer Rate (MB/Sec)

Mode 1 DMA

13.3

Mode 2 DMA

16.6

Mode 3 PIO

11.1

Mode 4 PIO

16.6