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Soyo's
SY-6IZA
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Socket
370 Intel ZX Based Motherboard With AGP Support
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| Fourteen
years old and 400 head strong, Soyo Computer offers for your
consumption, the SY-6IZA. This board offers a fairly complete sets
of features in an economical package. |
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you are looking at is a VERY compact 4/1/1 set up. Here's the rest
of the juice. |
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Supports
the following processors
- 66/100MHz FSB
Celeron 300A~433MHz
Chipset
- Intel 82440ZX
two chip AGPset
System
Memory
- Three 168-pin
SDRAM DIMM sockets support up to 256MB
Expansion
Slots
- Three 32-bit
Bus Mastering PCI slots (v2.1 compliant)
- One PCI/ISA
Shared Slot
- One AGP Slot
(v1.0 compliant)
On
Board 3D Audio Subsystem
- Creative
ES1373 PCI Plug & Play audio chip
- 16 bit stereo
full duplex with 48KHz sampling rate
- High quality
with 90dB SNR
One
Board Ultra I/O Chip (Winbond W83977EF)
- Two RS-232
serial ports (16550 UART compatible)
- One Parallel
printer port (SPP/EPP/ECP mode)
- One FDD port
(Supports LS120, 3 mode, 1.2/1.44/2.88MB FDD)
- Provides IrDA
port with optional cable for transceiver
Two
ULTRA DMA-33 IDE Ports
- Supports two
independent channels for four IDE devices
- Supports up
to PIO mode 4 and Ultra DMA/33
- Two PCI bus
mastering ATA E-IDE ports
Board
Dimensions
- Four layers,
30.5 cm x 17 cm (12" x 6.7")
- ATX form
factor
Double
Stack Back-Panel I/O Connectors
- PS/2 Mini-DIN
mouse & keyboard ports
- Two USB ports
- Two D-Sub
9-pin male Serial ports
- One D-Sub
25-pin female printer port
- One Joystick
Ports
- Audio I/O :
LINE-Outx1 , LINE-Inx1, MIC JACK x1
Boot-Block
Flash BIOS
- Award PCI
BIOS with green, ACPI, APM, plug and play, DMI functions,
- Year 2000
compliant
- Supports
multiple-boot from E-IDE / SCSI /CD-ROM / FDD / LS120 / ZIP
- 2 Mbit Flash
ROM
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| Not
a bad set up at all considering you get on board Creative EAX
Supported Audio. Although you only get 1 ISA slot, the 4 PCI slots
should give you ample room for expansion. 5 PCI would have been a
little more spacious but this board's tiny form factor really is
nice. Another thing to note is the board's excellent construction
with nice heavy duty capacitors supporting the CPU slot. The folks
at Soyo really know how to build in the quality. The ATX power
connector is ALMOST in the right place. If Soyo only pushed it in a
little more towards the CPU socket, I would have been a lot happier
when trying to squeeze the ATX power connect down on its mate. |
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Our
Test System
Mid
Tower ATX Case w/ 300W PS, Intel Celeron PPGA 300a, Soyo
SY-6IZA Motherboard,
64 MB of PC100 RAM, Maxtor 17Gig EIDE UDMA Hard Drive, Skywell Magic
TNT AGP Card w/ 16MB, On board Creative ES1373 Audio, Memorex 48X
CDROM, Windows 98 w/ DX6.1, TNT Detonator Drivers
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Overclocking
The SY-6IZA is a
very competent overclocker. The board booted and ran stable at
504MHz. with our Celeron 300z chip. This is a chip that occasionally
needs a little voltage boost to get stable on other boards. Not so
with the Soyo board. If you are in need of the extra speed, this
board is a sure thing. Now for the benchmarks...
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Benchmarks
| Winbench
99 Results - Desktop Resolution 1024X768X16 Bit color. |
Soyo |
| WinBench
99/Business Disk WinMark 99 (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
1470 |
| WinBench
99/CPUmark32 |
912 |
| WinBench
99/Disk Playback/Bus:Overall (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
1470 |
| WinBench
99/Disk Playback/HE:AVS/Express 3.4 (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
3630 |
| WinBench
99/Disk Playback/HE:FrontPage 98 (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
26600 |
| WinBench
99/Disk Playback/HE:MicroStation SE (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
8650 |
| WinBench
99/Disk Playback/HE:Overall (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
6790 |
| WinBench
99/Disk Playback/HE:Photoshop 4.0 (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
6470 |
| WinBench
99/Disk Playback/HE:Premiere 4.2 (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
5360 |
| WinBench
99/Disk Playback/HE:Sound Forge 4.0 (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
8770 |
| WinBench
99/Disk Playback/HE:Visual C++ 5.0 (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
6790 |
| WinBench
99/FPU WinMark |
2460 |
| WinBench
99/High-End Disk WinMark 99 (Thousand Bytes/Sec) |
6790 |
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| Well,
these numbers are just a little light in the Disk WinMark
department. However the CPUmark scores are strong and this board
comes in VERY close behind our average Slot 1 board with a Pentium
II at the same clock speed! Nothing like free MHz. I always say! |
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The
Bottom Line
Pluses:
Grace under pressure. We pushed our Celeron 300a PPGA processor to
the limit (504MHz) and she was stable. The ability to set a
threshold CPU temp. and an alarm if you reach it, may be a toy for
the hardened "overclocker" but for the uninitiated it can
be um... a life saver. The built in audio by Creative is awesome. 3D
positioning makes you want to turn the lights back on during your
off hour Q2 forays.
Minuses:
Playing "hide-the-fan-connector" when you're trying to use
that ultra-cool dual fan heat sink doesn't make your cooling efforts
any easier. Power connector, close to the supply GOOD. Orientation
of the connector resulting in the release tab jammed up against the
power supply NOT GOOD. Picking yes but hey, you want attention to
details, you got it!
Verdict:
A good, fast
Socket 370 solution for short money. Overclockers are welcome!
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The Soyo SY-6IZA
gets a Hot Hardware Temp-O-Meter score of
80
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This board is a neat little "Socket Rocket" !
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| -Bob
"Kujo" Gagnon |
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