Surprisingly Newbish Question

[stealth_logic25]

Due to the fact that I'm a "true gamer", I have an almost crazy detirmination to sqeeze every last bit of performance out of my PC. Recently, I found out that I can get more performance by downloading the recent AGP mini port drivers for my mother board (that,s what mnakes PC Gaming great - so many drivers to download .) Naturally, this requires figuring out the model number on my intel motherboard. So, question is how do I figure out the model numbr on my motherboard (as you might have guessed)?

[TARWMSRK]

Pop open the case and look for the model number stamped somewhere OR look at your instruction manual.

[stealth_logic25]

To see an example of the number that I'm looking for go here

and click on "pentium 4 based motherboards" at the top.

[XOR]

heh if your lucky it wont be an obsolete motherboard

strangely enough my comp is made out of old hardware except for maybe the ram and the sound card(because i got new ones) but it works very well

i am unable to find updates unfortunatly

[Scrivener]

And have you manually set your Virtual Memory?

You'd be surprised at the performance increase you get by NOT letting Windows manage it for you.

[Pugwash]

Try Intel® Chipset Identification Utility it has two handy utilities.

They will also work with none Intel manufactured motherboards.

or get the bios string during bootup, if your getting a company logo / splash screen rather than a post screen you may need to go into the bios and disable it.

Then visit somewhere like www.wimsbios.com and track down the chipset and manufacturer.