i have a Super Socket 7 motherboard, SiS 530. it has integrated video (1mb *snickers*). it also has four empty chip spots about the size of an older Award BIOS chip. they are labeled "1mx16 vid mem sdram". i am assuming this means one can actually add video memory to the board. where would i get such memory chips?? or would it be better to just disable the integrated video and use a PCI video card (no AGP slot)?? thanx all. I drive an awesome 1972 Trans Am 455 Super Duty that gets about 8-10mpg, but thats a small price to pay for such awesomeness.

What is 'better' is relative. If you can find the right chips then maybe you use them. If you have an older PCI video card with more RAM then maybe you use that. Although those older video RAM chips all fit the same slots, they're not always interchangeable. You need to use the same type of chips as are already installed on the motherboard or determine via a manual or other source if they are interchangeable. That of course won't matter if you add a PCI card. If you're going to be messing with old stuff like that you need to know where to look. Goodwill and other thrift stores as well as garage sales should provide you with all the hardware you need.

Not sure what you want to use it for. Any 3D stuff? SIS 530 graphics are just terrible on anything i have encountered that on and that has been 8mb integrated. I honestly think that trying to add more memory to sis 530 is a waste of time. If you need better graphics then get a PCI card (not a SIS 6326 which is similarly poor)

I agree 100% with cliffpage. SiS530 based boards have got to be the WORST boards I EVER worked with! And I don't just mean the graphics...the performance just downright sucks. And that can pretty much be said of all SiS based boards...the only exception I can think of is the SiS735 chipset used on the ECS K7S5A & K7S5A Pro. Avoid SiS like someone with a bad case of bird-flu This space for rent

just biulding a system for very little money for my cousin (since his mobo crapped out) and using a mobo i happened to have laying around. you think it will run slow with a 550mhz K6-2 and 256mb of RAM?? compared to any other motherboard with a 550mhz K6-2 and 256mb of RAM?? so the integrated video is 8mb. hmmm... is it 3D accelerated video?? do you think it would take a PCI video card?? is it really a horrible enough mobo that i should pay for a differant board when i already have this one??? I drive an awesome 1972 Trans Am 455 Super Duty that gets about 8-10mpg, but thats a small price to pay for such awesomeness.

PS. the chipset appears to be SiS 5595 it will crawl with a 550mhz K6-2 and 256mb of RAM (as i plan to equip it) compared to the same RAM and memory on, say, an ASUS board or something not made by SiS?? is it so "worst board ever" that it is worth paying for a new one when i already have this one?? I drive an awesome 1972 Trans Am 455 Super Duty that gets about 8-10mpg, but thats a small price to pay for such awesomeness.

just use the darn thing & install a PCI video card. The VIA Apollo MVP3 was the best chipset for Socket7/Super7 systems. This space for rent