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Majestic12
10-30-2002, 10:43 PM
the Soyo Dragon 400 something. it says it has Serial IDE. how much faster is that than IDE and the 400 DDR ram... how long will it be before it is avalible cheaply?

Another addition. Is the Soyo Dragon KT400-ultra a good motherboard? like for the price, are there better ones?
BipolarBill
10-31-2002, 01:26 AM
Serial IDE is not really faster, but it will be easier to configure - when drives are avalable. I would leave that for a year or so. ;)

It's a good board, but EPoX, MSI, Asus and Abit have as good or better boards for less money. Soyo is not worth the premium to me.
Majestic12
10-31-2002, 08:53 AM
boards such as........?
BipolarBill
10-31-2002, 09:19 AM
Boards such as any other KT400 from those brands.
BadBoy_77
11-01-2002, 06:10 AM
if u'r running amd gigabyte has a new kt400 out the ga-7vaxp. it also has dual bios feature. i found the board for $89 on the net. fry's and such stores are selling it at around $130

it has vcore, fsb, mutliplier settings all avail in bios. also comes with shift on the fly fsb for windows. for the money and the reviews its a good board.

Gigabyte GA-7VAXP (http://www.giga-byte.com/products/7vaxp.htm)
Eric Legge
11-01-2002, 05:19 PM
Visit this Serial ATA site - http://www.serialata.org/

Eric,

http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/BuyerBeware.htm
Majestic12
11-01-2002, 07:46 PM
Wow thats great. its like 20-50 bucks cheaper than asus/soyo and msi boards..... hmm guess its just good? either that or made by children in third world countries. Anyways..whats dual bios do?

where did you find it for $89?
BipolarBill
11-01-2002, 07:50 PM
Gigabyte makes good stuff.

http://queen.pricewatch.com/search/searchmc.idq?cr=GA-7VAXP&qc=%22GA%22*+AND+%227VAXP%22*+AND+%40totalcost%3E0 +AND+%40ctd+2&i=2&ct=Computer&c=Motherboards&mi=N&m=N&ne=7337&l=7291
omega31
11-01-2002, 08:00 PM
This LINK (http://www.fticomputer.com/cgis/detail.cgi?product=MB-GA-7VAX&ses=&cat=MB), obtained through Bill's last post, is for the ga-7vax, the ga-7vaxp is $26 more at the same place.
BadBoy_77
11-01-2002, 10:28 PM
dual bios means it has two bios chips on the board. so basically if one chip goes bad or you have a bad flash while flashing bios the other one is used as a backup and your computer starts normally. so you can reflash the chip.