Review of Pentium II Boards with Intel's 440LX Chipset

Review of Pentium II Boards with Intel's 440LX Chipset

The new Soyo board that I already tested as pre release version about 6 weeks ago has got quite mature and is under Windows NT the new performance leader, separating it from the slowest board by no less than 2.1 Winstone points under Windows NT. Although this board doesn't use as many tantalum capacitors as the Tyan or Supermicro boards it's using electrolytic capacitors with the temp spec of up to 105°C instead of only 85°C as e.g. the MSI board does. This higher temperature 'resistance' slows down the aging of the capacitor considerably and should therefore perform just as well as the tantalum capacitors. The board gives a well made impression and is using dip switches for the CPU multiplier adjustment instead of jumpers, just as the MSI board does as well. It also shares with the MSI MS-6111 the inability to run at more than 66 MHz bus speed, but I guess you know that I am not thinking much of that feature anyhow.
4 DIMM slots, no SIMM slots, 1 AGP, 3 PCI, 3 ISA slots, ATX form factor.