Soyo Dragon?

[Trone]

This looks like a great motherboard. It is brand new though. I really am seriously debating buying 2 of em, one for my friend and one for me. Does anyone know of any reviews on these bad boys? Those Purple Pci slots are cool. How would it perform in comparision to other boards? The reason I like this board is because it has GOOD integrated sound, Raid, and integrated ethernet. Do you guys think that its a good value at 160 dollars? Also, I have a SVC golden gate with the 50mm X 50mm (I think) fan on it. The reason I got this is because it is supposedly pretty quiet. Do you guys think this HSF has enough in it to cool a 1.4ghz Tbird? Thanks!

 

[surlyjoe]

It looks sweet!!, I have had good kuck with the Soyo boards , but hadn't seen this one yet. let us know if you try one out !

 

[Richard]

There seem to be issues with this board and USB at high FSB speeds. (What board doesn't?)

Also, there isn't an ability to raise the DDR voltage. This is something that will need to be addressed in a future revision. According to one of the soyo engineers there is a need to add a capacitor to the board to add this function.

You M462a users will not be happy with this board either. There is one capacitor near the DDR slots that is in the way.

From what I've read on the Anandtech boards the Dragon seems to be a nice board if you don't intend to go for radical overclocking. Definitely a nice all in one mobo.

The A7V266 will probably ursurp it though.

Trone (Aug 02, 2001 09:30 p.m.):
This looks like a great motherboard. It is brand new though. I really am seriously debating buying 2 of em, one for my friend and one for me. Does anyone know of any reviews on these bad boys? Those Purple Pci slots are cool. How would it perform in comparision to other boards? The reason I like this board is because it has GOOD integrated sound, Raid, and integrated ethernet. Do you guys think that its a good value at 160 dollars? Also, I have a SVC golden gate with the 50mm X 50mm (I think) fan on it. The reason I got this is because it is supposedly pretty quiet. Do you guys think this HSF has enough in it to cool a 1.4ghz Tbird? Thanks!