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Planet Hardware has put up a review on the Gigabytes GA-6OXM7 mainboard.



Looking at the board´s chipset, you will notice that Gigabyte elected to use the i815 chipset. First, as is expected, the i815 supports 133 MHz FSB, with the flexibility to support 66 and 100 MHz as well. Thus, the board offers the user both Celeron and PIII support, something which is useful for upgraders. The chipset is limited in the fact that you can only use two sticks of RAM if you opt to use 133 MHz RAM. The board becomes unstable with the inclusion of a third piece of RAM - a major setback for some higher end users. On the other hand, you can use 3 units of RAM if you decide to use 100 MHz RAM. Regardless, the system limit is 512 MB for RAM, but 95% of gamers won´t even go higher that 256 MB of RAM anyway.
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