Soyo 6VCA Motherboard Review

The Soyo 6VCA is a ATX form factor, slot 1 motherboard, powered by the VIA 133A chipset. The VIA 133A chipset provides some attractive features like: AGP4X compliance (with 1/2 AGP divider,) as well as natively supporting UDMA/66.  The Soyo 6VCA also comes with the now common 1 AGP, 1 AMR, 5 PCI, and 1 ISA configuration.  Top top it all off, the 6VCA also comes with 3 DIMM slots, as well as onboard sound.

$160 CDN / $108 USD

Motherboard Specifications and Features:

Specifications of the Soyo 6VCA Motherboard: DESCRIPTION 66/100/133MHz FSB Slot 1 Based ATX Motherboard PROCESSOR 133MHz FSB Pentium III Processors 533B~1 GHz+ 100 MHz FSB Pentium III Processor 450~800 MHz 100 MHz FSB Pentium II Processor 350/400/450 MHz 66 MHz FSB Pentium II Processor 233/266/300/333 MHz 66 MHz FSB Celeron Processor 266~300 MHz 66 MHz FSB Celeron Processor 300A~500 MHz with integrated 128KB full speed L2 cache CHIPSET VIA 694X Chipset Supports 66/100/133 MHz FSB SYSTEM MEMORY Three 168-pin SDRAM DIMM sockets support up to 1.5GB Support PC-100/PC-133 SDRAM Provides ECC (Error Checking Correction) capability EXPANSION SLOTS Five 32-bit Bus Mastering PCI slots (v2.2 compliant) One 16-bit ISA slots One Universal AGP slots (support 1x/2x/4x mode) One Audio/Modem Riser Connector (Revision 1.0) ON BOARD AUDIO SUBSYSTEM AC97 Codec on board to provide software audio solution Built-in chipset Super I/O Two RS-232 serial ports (16550 UART compatible) One Parallel printer port (SPP/EPP/ECP mode) One FDD port (Supports LS120, 3 mode, 1.2/1.44/2.88MB FDD) Provides IrDA port with optional cable for transceiver TWO ULTRA DMA-33/66 IDE PORTS Two independent channels for four IDE devices Supports up to PIO mode 4 and Ultra DMA 33/66 Two PCI bus mastering ATA E-IDE ports BOARD DIMENSIONS Four layers, 30.5 cm x 20 cm (12" x 7.9") ATX form factor BOOT-BLOCK FLASH BIOS Award PCI BIOS with green, ACPI, APM, PnP, DMI functions and Year 2000 compliant Supports multiple-boot from E-IDE / SCSI / CD-ROM / FDD / LS120 / ZIP 2 Mbit Flash ROM SOYO AI-BIOS ENHANCED PC HEALTH MONITORING Built-in chipset hardware monitoring functions On-board voltage monitors for CPU Vcore, VTT, +5v, +12V, and VBAT CPU fan speed control & monitor Precision CPU temperature monitoring through CPU on-die thermal diode Battery Low detection DOUBLE STACK BACK-PANEL I/O CONNECTORS PS/2 Mini-DIN mouse & keyboard ports Two USB ports One D-Sub 25-pin female printer port Two serial port Audio I/O: LINE-Out x1 , LINE-In x1, MIC JACK x1 One game port FCC CLASS B AND CE EMI REGULATION COMPLIANT PC98 ACPI COMPLIANT

Supports up to 32 selectable sets of system and PCI clock speeds inside the BIOS directly, allowing for easy, no-jumper configuration!! Innovative Sofset for CPU configuration . Supports on-board Hardware Monitoring and includes Hardware Health Utility to streamline your PC system management Power-CPU-Up! Function: CPU core voltage is adjustable via jumper setting with four level. SOYO AI-BIOS: Four-way Active Interception CIH virus Design.Supports WOL (Wake On LAN) function to simplify network management .Provides SOYO COMBO setup- an user friendly mighty features setup on BIOS for professional users . Advanced Management Capabilities * Software power off control, Power-on by Alarm, Modem Ring On. RTC hardware to handle Y2K century rollover . Power Failure Resume Function and Suspend to RAM.

Soyo includes a quickstart manual, a floppy disk drive cable, 80 conductor / 40 pin Ultra ATA 66 cable and two CD's.  The Soyo CD includes the full manual for the motherboard, VIA drivers for the motherboard, Audio drivers for the onboard audio, and contact info for Soyo (sales and technical support.)  The second CD is a Soyo Bonus pack which includes the full, uncrippled versions of Norton Antivirus, Norton Ghost, and Norton Virtual Drive.  As I've mentioned many times before, virus protection is a very important feature for any computer system, and it's nice to see Soyo include such a competent suite of software for free.

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