Soyo SY-K7VTA Pro

Board Revision: ?

BIOS Version: 2AA1 (February 2, 2001)

Soyo's KT133A motherboard offers five PCI slots, one ISA, the AGP 4x slot, three DIMM sockets and an AC97 sound system with only one line-in header. Except for the heat sink w/fan on the North Bridge chip, this one can be called a standard motherboard, as it does not offer any exciting features. There are some DIPswitches on the board, which allow you to set the multiplier (after unlocking the CPU, of course). Another jumper is required to adjust the processor bus clock: 200 or 266 MHz (100 or 133 MHz DDR).

The retail box contains a quick start guide, a driver CD, some flat cables and a 8-in-1 bonus pack, consisting of Norton Ghost, Norton Anti Virus 2000, Adobe ActiveShare, Acrobat Reader, a shopping assistant software called appio, X-Stop internet security, cute dialer and Imagemore (cliparts).

In terms of performance, the Soyo board was not able to place itself at the top of the test bed. However, it comes with some nice overclocking features, which can be found in the 'Soyo Combo Feature' section of the BIOS. Here you can adjust the Vcore between +0.025 and +0.250 and -0.025 to -0.100 V. You are also given the option to choose the SDRAM clock (100 or 133 MHz) independent from the real FSB speed.

That's the sticker which Soyo puts on the socket.