that includes things like Socket Type

I doubt you would want to use socket 1 board. Socket 2 is Pentium Overdrive ready and Socket 3 added optional 3.3-4v support.

'm having trouble figuring out which board I have will work out

Socket 3 board with voltage regulator will work with everything. Simple.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

that includes things like Socket Type

I doubt you would want to use socket 1 board. Socket 2 is Pentium Overdrive ready and Socket 3 added optional 3.3-4v support.

To be honest I don't know why you would think I wouldn't want to use a Socket 1 or even a Socket 486/Overdrive board. I have such boards and do use them.

'm having trouble figuring out which board I have will work out

Socket 3 board with voltage regulator will work with everything. Simple.

Obviously, but that doesn't change the fact that Socket 486 or Socket 1/2 won't work with everything.

Even if it is a Socket 3 with a voltage regulator, some of your last 486 based CPU's (like your AMD 5x86, Cyrix 5x86 and your later Write Back L1 cache CPU's) do also sometimes require a BIOS update in order for the motherboard to properly support those CPU's.

I've found that most PCI based 486 motherboards supports all of the above. With VLB, some later models did provide BIOS updates to support the above mentioned CPU's.
An example is your Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Socket 3 board with voltage regulator will work with everything. Simple.

I've heard of many newer boards (and even a lot of older boards) having trouble running the 486SX-16 due to a lack of proper settings to run at a 16MHz bus speed. They typically bottom out at 25MHz and simply will not go any lower, short of physically modding the board. On the other hand, the 486SX-16 is so exceedingly rare that this is pretty much a non-issue, unless you're on a mission to collect and run every single class of 486 CPU that ever existed.