Re: SY-P4I875P DRAGON 2 (Platinum Edition)

Doesn't the 875 offer superior SATA performance? It might be worth
waiting for. I've owned three Soyo boards, the last being an early
production Dragon K7V that was somewhat dissappointing. It had several
quirky problems that I was never able to resolve. I finally replaced it
a month ago with an Asus A7N8X that so far has performed flawlessly.
What happened to John Howland? By the way, my other 2 SOYO boards, a
5EAS5 and 5EHM ran perfectly, in fact the 5EHM is still in use and
running strong.
Ed
Jim Burghdoff wrote:
> I would hold off on buying the 875 boards for a short while. Tom's Hardware
> Guide did a test on several of the boards and all had major problems with
> memory. They did say that all the problems were due to the different boards
> BIOS files and will be fixed in time. They didn't test the soyo board but I
> would figure they also will be having problems with memory. Now I haven't
> seen any problems with the 865 chipset as of yet. In fact I've read that
> although a little slower in performance compaired to the 875 these 865
> boards are working great. What was funny in there test was that the board
> with the most trouble was the Abit board. I'm planning on the Soyo 875 board
> myself but am going to wait till I hear about bugs. Though both of my P4I
> boards (Fire Dragon & P4I 845PE) work fantasitc.
>
> Jim
> "jaeger" <> wrote in message
> news:. ..
>
>>In article <Eb9Ea.63154$MJ5.33397@fed1read03>, says...
>>
>>>Has anyone tried this board yet? Thoughts?
>>
>>I'd love to know too, I've never owned a Soyo but this one looks like the
>
> best
>
>>out of all the 875P boards as far as features. They seem to have gotten
>
> rid of
>
>>most of the annoyances from previous Dragons that kept me away while
>
> making
>
>>full use of the chipset. But considering how flaky the 875/865 is right
>
> now
>
>>I'm not ready for a blind purchase on a $200 board.
>
>
>

"Ed T Wilson" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Doesn't the 875 offer superior SATA performance? It might be worth
> waiting for. I've owned three Soyo boards, the last being an early
> production Dragon K7V that was somewhat dissappointing. It had several
> quirky problems that I was never able to resolve. I finally replaced it
> a month ago with an Asus A7N8X that so far has performed flawlessly.
> What happened to John Howland? By the way, my other 2 SOYO boards, a
> 5EAS5 and 5EHM ran perfectly, in fact the 5EHM is still in use and
> running strong.
> Ed
> Jim Burghdoff wrote:
> > I would hold off on buying the 875 boards for a short while. Tom's
Hardware
> > Guide did a test on several of the boards and all had major problems
with
> > memory. They did say that all the problems were due to the different
boards
> > BIOS files and will be fixed in time. They didn't test the soyo board
but I
> > would figure they also will be having problems with memory. Now I
haven't
> > seen any problems with the 865 chipset as of yet. In fact I've read that
> > although a little slower in performance compaired to the 875 these 865
> > boards are working great. What was funny in there test was that the
board
> > with the most trouble was the Abit board. I'm planning on the Soyo 875
board
> > myself but am going to wait till I hear about bugs. Though both of my
P4I
> > boards (Fire Dragon & P4I 845PE) work fantasitc.
> >
> > Jim
> > "jaeger" <> wrote in message
> > news:. ..
> >
> >>In article <Eb9Ea.63154$MJ5.33397@fed1read03>, says...
> >>
> >>>Has anyone tried this board yet? Thoughts?
> >>
> >>I'd love to know too, I've never owned a Soyo but this one looks like
the
> >
> > best
> >
> >>out of all the 875P boards as far as features. They seem to have gotten
> >
> > rid of
> >
> >>most of the annoyances from previous Dragons that kept me away while
> >
> > making
> >
> >>full use of the chipset. But considering how flaky the 875/865 is right
> >
> > now
> >
> >>I'm not ready for a blind purchase on a $200 board.
> >
> >
> >
>

John Howland moved with his family to another state, his wife got
transferred. And he decided that the money it was costing him to stay in the
computer business just wasn't worth the hassle thanks to some of the people
who where computer illiterate that he had to deal with. I have the 875
chipset and so far it has been flawless.

Tim