Posted: 2/21/2001
Written by: Tron
Price: $120.00 (Low price here)
Supplied by: Soyo

Soyo's board offerings have been getting better and better as of late. Heck, in the Socket A arena, board offerings in general have been quite good. With the recent launch and availability of VIA's KT133a chipset, we are seeing many board manufacturers offering features that overclockers really want. Soyo's foray into the KT133a chipset market is no exception.

SPECIFICATIONS

DESCRIPTION

• 200/266MHz System Interface Speed AMD Socket-A based VIA
• KT133+686B ATX MotherboardTM ATX Motherboard
• Support ATA-100 Hard Drive

PROCESSOR

• Socket-A AMD AthlonŽ processors 550MHz~1GHz+,Supports AMD Thunderbird & Duron CPUs
• 200MHz System Interface Speed,ECC Protection on system and cache interfaces

CHIPSET

• VIA KT-133a+686B AGP chipset

FRONT SIDE BUS OPTIONS

• Available FSB options of 100/ 133MHz

AUTO PCI CLOCK

• The PCI bus speed is automatically set between 30MHz and 41MHz regardless of FSB setting.

SYSTEM MEMORY

• Three 168-pin SDRAM DIMM sockets Support up to 1.5GB
  PC100/PC133 Sdram DIMM support
• Provides ECC (Error Checking Correction) capability

EXPANSION SLOTS

• Five 32 bit Bus Mastering PCI slots (v2.2 compliant)
• One 16 bit ISA slots (One PCI/ISA Shared slot)
• One 32 bit AGP slot (v1.0 compliant, AGP 1X/ 2X/ 4X)

ON CHIP ULTRA I/O PORTS

• Two RS-232 Serial Ports (16550 UART compatible)
• One Parallel Printer Port (SPP/EPP/ECP mode)
• One FDD port (supports 3 mode, 1.2/1.44/2.88 MB FDD)
• Provides IrDA port with optional cable for transceiver
• TWO ULTRA DMA-33/66/100 IDE PORTS
• Onboard AC97 Audio

Enhanced PC Health Monitoring
On-board voltage monitors for +5V, +12V, Vcore, Vtt and Vbatt status
System health status detect
System temperature sensor
CPU temperature monitoring through flexible thermal sensor under processor heatsink
FCC CLASS B AND CE EMI REGULATION COMPLIANT
PC 99 COMPLIANT

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