Conclusion
We spent
much longer with this board than we normally do with motherboard reviews.
When we first received it we had a couple of major concerns with it. The
overall stability of the board appeared to be poor and serious problems
with AGP 4X video cards were evident. However, new driver releases from
VIA and ATI fixed many of the problems we were experiencing. Since then,
we have had the board running double time ensuring that problems we had
were completely fixed.. I am happy to report that we uncovered only one
unresolved problem which was with the popular HalfLife mod CounterStrike.
We put this board through its' paces night and day and it has earned its'
place in our benchmark testbed.
It's
hard to pick out one area where this board excels but it does well in almost
every area. Performance is the fastest we have seen from a KT133 board and
stability is excellent. Future upgrades shouldn't be a problem with multiplier
adjustments up to 12.5 and an Universal AGP4X slot. The board layout is
OK, but there is definitely room for improvement here. We shouldn't have
to disassemble the system to change the multiplier. Soyo needs to rethink
the ATX power connector position. These problems aside, this is easily the
best KT133 based motherboard we have seen.
Andrew Oliver
01.01.08
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