soyo dragon plus [Archive]

Click to See Complete Forum and Search --> : soyo dragon plus

cuebreakerz

11-09-2002, 11:47 PM

im building a new cpu for gaming from scratch.I know there is no way to keep up with all the new stuff. im interested in the soyo dragon with the kt266a chip set it seems to bost alot of featuers just want a good gamer \will it be ok/ :t realistcaly speaking!! good board or bad board for gaming
Iwill be running xp/60g7200rpm/ti4200ddr.gammer sound crd.

BlackTruckRyder

11-10-2002, 12:56 AM

Good boards, but expensive. You could get the same features on a cheaper board, from like Epox, Asus, MSI so on and so forth.

Why not go for a KT333 or KT400? The 266 is out of date.IMHO:t

cuebreakerz

11-10-2002, 01:39 AM

this is true have looked at the 333 is it a must do or will the 266a be ok or is it going to be hard later to up date it? will the games demand it later on?

cuebreakerz

11-10-2002, 02:09 AM

well i am also looking at a fic board with a P4 sis645dx chip set.i know nothing of sis.Are they pretty good or no

BlackTruckRyder

11-10-2002, 03:12 AM

Do you want a Pentium system or an AMD system?

unreal_outlaw

11-10-2002, 04:48 AM

The dragon is a good board i own one... It has great overclocking features for FSB and also it had on board network card... sound ... raid... its an great board kinda step price but SOYO makes great boards... I prefer them.. before the dragon i had a shuttle ak31 which i was over clocking and the board chipset smoked its self out odd huh? Anyways i got atleast 1k high on 3d mark with the same compnets and clock speed.. great board for games.. although i wouldnt use the onboard sound because some times the sound likes to chop up a little bit in peak times in some older 3d games because a lot of strees on the board and stuff i guess i put a sb live in here and its a very good board...

athlon xp 1700
512 ddr
radeon 8500
and about 10000-11000 d2mark score sometimes less =)

cuebreakerz

11-10-2002, 10:14 AM

i would prefer a amd and alot of people seem to use them for gaming the p4 looks nice the one im looking at has that sis645dx chip set its a fic board/ ive been told that the chip set is very impt so tryen to make sure im not going to build some thing that is not going to be a good gamming system thank you every one with the advice you are giving me

BlackTruckRyder

11-10-2002, 04:55 PM

If you want a pentium system, go with an intel chipset. If its AMD get a via chipset.

Take a look here. These motherboards are for AMD procs.

http://www.newegg.com/app/manufactory.asp?catalog=22&DEPA=1

cuebreakerz

11-10-2002, 07:13 PM

thanks very much for your input ,im going to go after the soyo dragon first thing monday amd all the way for my new gamer :D
the boards for soyo are a little pricey but im a firm beliver that you get what you pay for and i need durability.I never over clock for i would mess it up quick dont know the first thing about it.

current sysamd athlon 950
asus kt 133
wd 40 gig 7200
sony dvd
buslink writer
ti4200agp
xgamer sound
dsl
giving it to my kids ;)

BlackTruckRyder

11-10-2002, 07:16 PM

Good luck and happy computing.:t