Soyo Motherboards

[Guest_Buford]

Anyone have any experience with Soyo motherboards (Socket 370)?

Thanks!

[A+Net+MCP]

No, but why do you ask? Do you have a problem with said board? If so post and maybe we can help.

[Guest_Buford]

No problem... just shopping for a good 370 MB... want to use Intel Celeron, USB 2.0, onboard audio, video, and possibly modem.

Thanks!

[A+Net+MCP]

The 3 top boards I think are Abit, Asus and Epox in that order.  Sounds like you want a cheap board though. I would only buy the top-of-the-line models from these makers . Ideally you don't anything onboard if you truely care about speed but if you have to pick one it would be sound. If you really want video as well just try to get the best video you can. Don't get modem on board, they are cheap so just add it on. Boards now have 5 or 6 PCI slots you will have lots of expansion slots. The 3 makers I mentioned  no longer make 370 boards because the Celeron is toast.  Maybe you should look to AMD if you want to save $$$. Soyo also don't make 370's either. Good Luck!

[CJTech]

I use to work for a computer system building company and when I worked the tech bench doing repairs I saw alot of Soyo boards come back (most wouldn't POST or the Bios had to be re-flashed). Now I work for a world wide company and do field work and I had a bounch of computers that would no longer POST or gave errors for no reason in Windows. I cracked open the computers to test the mainboard, CPU and memory and I noticed that all of them were motherboard issues. Guess what..... the motherboards are Soyo. I would stay away from them but, I know people who love them.... just not me.

[CJTech]

I would go to Ebay and buy an Asus. Like the CUV4X is under 10 bucks used or 20 bucks new. The best thing about Asus is how well they overclock and do not crash!