SOYO mobo, SY-5SSM , comments please

[Richard_Cranium72]

This is one for a customer who want's on-board audio/video.

I looked in user reviews to no avail.

Any experience with this one ?SY-5SSM
Super 7 Platform with High integration (built-in VGA chip and ESS Audio) , high Performance provides a very cost- effective PC platform
Supports 66/75/83/90/95/100/103/112/124/133 MHz system clock speeds
http://www.soyo.com.tw/

The soyo page loads slowly !!

DrVette

[Peter M]

SiS 530/5595 chipset. Proven platform, dunno about the Soyo board.

Whatever you do, use a high FSB frequency and CAS2 SDRAM for best possible memory bandwidth. The integrated VGA will eat into that, and the more you have, the better.

Regards, Peter

[Ed_S]

Not familiar with that particular board, but I've had excellent luck with Soyo. I've got the 5EHM, as do several friends. No problems.
Never heard anyone badmouth them, either.

Ed

[Richard_Cranium72]

Micron ram at buy.com is about $64 for 128mb pc100 and $75 or so for PC133.

Without having it in hand, how do you tell the CL ?

I went to micron's site and had NO luck.

Per Micron, both Speed Mark -75 or -7e can be CL 3 (in PC133)

But ONLY -7e can POSSIBLY be CL2.

So how in the world can you tell,, buy another brand ?

another item, per Micron
"Micron's 64mb SDRAM has auto refresh, which requies all 4,096 rows to be refreshed every 64ms.
This command should be distributed every 15.6us...."

Strange,

DrVette

[Peter M]

PC133 SDRAM should be fast enough for CAS2 operation at 100 MHz.

The full ID for a CAS latency 2 capable PC100 DIMM is PC100-222. Shop for that.

Regards, Peter