[SOLVED] how to know computer specs

**mkarnicki** · June 7th, 2008

Hi guys,

We recently gave a low-end PC to my grandpas (my grandma uses ubuntu with no hustle! she rocks

), and I would like to upgrade her PC's processor, but she lives in another town. Currently she has Pentium II (?) on socket 370 at 800MHz, and 192MB RAM.

How do I get eg. her motherboard model, etc. I have a remote connection to her desktop, which works flawless, so I do have remote access to her computer. Will I find a motherboard model in dmesg dump? Or should I look for it somewhere in the GUI?

Thanks,
Mike

**Rhubarb** · June 7th, 2008

If it's a socket 370 CPU running at 800MHz, it'd have to be a pentium 3 / celeron.
The RAM is most likely PC133 (not sure the max memory + memory slots it has).

You should be able to slot in a P3 1GHz in there without problems (if you can find one).
The motherboard should be able to take 512MB RAM no problems, and it'd have an 8x AGP slot for video card.

I'm not too sure how to find out those specs remotely though.
Good luck

**bumanie** · June 7th, 2008

Not 100% sure, but I guess it would show up in a long list of harware.

sudo lshw

PS: Of course a certain amount of specs are shown via the initial asci script during POST.

**Elos** · June 7th, 2008

tried this when i am using windows last time . not sure if it works in ubuntu, go google cpuz , download it and run , it should show your computer specs

**mkarnicki** · June 7th, 2008

Thank you guys, I appreciate fast response!

@Rhubarb She has 128+64 MB SDRAM, but actually my main problem was to check with what processors (and max MHz) is the motherboard compatible

@bumanie Thank you! Exactly what I needed.

**mkarnicki** · June 7th, 2008

Thanks to you bumanie I know every detail of that remote PC, thanks !

product: VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (<--- what I needed)
Pentium III 500MHz (dang, I thought it was more!)
320 MB RAM (256+64)

Now I can check how fast (1.0, 1.2 or maybe 1.4?) processor will fit the motherboard. Cheers!

**MikeBrown** · November 10th, 2008

Thanks! I happened to stumble upon this post and was curious about the hardware in my Computer, which is a 4+ year old computer I put Ubuntu 8.10 on tonight to test out. I found your post very helpful, once I realised that was an 'L' not an 'I' in the command.

Thanks for helping out an Ubuntu n00b!