SOYO Unleashes its SY-K7V DRAGON Motherboard With VIA KT266 Chipset -- New Board Breathes Fire Into AMD CPUs With DDR Memory, RAID, Overclocking Features, 10/100 Ethernet, and More.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2001 SOYO SOYO Society of Orthodox Youth Organization Computer, Inc. expects to breathe fire into the AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. motherboard market when it today releases its SY-K7V DRAGON motherboard for high-performance AMD Thunderbird and Duron CPUs with VIA's KT266 chipset. The new SY-K7V DRAGON motherboard is an acronym for success that could spell significant sales for SOYO's AMD-supported products, according to VP of Engineering Ming Chok. The board's nickname defines its many advanced features. The "D" in DRAGON stands for DDR memory support; R = RAID (0,1) on board; A = Audio on board; G = AGP Pro Slot; O = Overclocking Features, which are all adjustable via the BIOS; and N = NIC (1) (Network Interface Card) See network adapter. See also InterNIC. (2) (New Internet Computer) An earlier Linux-based computer from The New Internet Computer Company (NICC), Palo Alto, CA. 10/100 Ethernet onboard. The SOYO SY-K7V DRAGON will have a single board list price of $170 (U.S.) and will be available from SOYO's worldwide network of authorized dealers and distributors in July. SOYO's new board is optimized for performance for the latest DDR-capable AMD Socket A processors with 200/266 Frontside System Bus (FSB). The Via KT266 chipset provides up to a 40% performance boost over the current 133Mhz chipsets. SOYO has also developed several system management and protection features to make the SY-K7V DRAGON one of the most innovative motherboards for high-performance system builders in its class, according to Chok. The SY-K7V DRAGON comes in an ATX form factor. The board includes five 32-bit Bus Mastering PCI slots (V2.2 compliant), and one Universal AGP Pro slot with support for 1x/2x/4x mode graphics. With its AGP Pro slot, the DRAGON motherboard offers a dedicated, high-speed port for the movement of large blocks of 3D texture data between the PC's graphics controller and system memory. This makes it an excellent board for real-time video editing Real-time video editing is a system of editing video where it takes no longer to render a video than the length of that video clip itself. For example, after a 30 minute length of video is edited it needs to be rendered, and should the system take more than 30 minutes to render the , digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. , 3-D graphics processing, commercial 3-D modeling, CAD/workstation applications, image compression, speech recognition, and a variety of mainstream applications. The DRAGON's memory is expandable with three 184-pin DDR SDRAM 2.5V DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module sockets, and support for up to 3GBs of DDR memory. The SY-K7V includes an on board CMI (Computer-Managed Instruction) Using computers to organize and manage an instructional program for students. It helps create test materials, tracks the results and monitors student progress. 8738 audio chip, which provides 6-channel speaker support with 3D surround sound. On board 10/100 Mbps Ethernet functionality is also available with VIA's PHY controller. The board's Ultra I/O Chip includes two RS-232 serial ports (16550 UART compatible); one parallel printer port (SPP/EPP/ECP mode), one FDD port (supports 3 mode, 1.2/1.44/2.88 MB FDD; an IrDA port with optional cable for transceiver, and six USB ports (2 rear, 4 front). The board's Ultra DMA IDE ports provide support for four independent channels, which can accommodate eight IDE devices, including two for RAID. SOYO has integrated a number of enhanced system management capabilities into the SY-K7V DRAGON motherboard. The embedded Promise IDE RAID chip provides IDE RAID Level 0, and Level 1 functions. The CPU core voltage The CPU core voltage (VCORE) is the power supply voltage supplied to the CPU (which is a digital circuit), GPU, or other device containing a processing core. The amount of power a CPU uses, and thus the amount of heat it dissipates, is the product of this voltage and the , FSB and multiplier can all be adjusted via Award PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). BIOS setup. Support is also included for on-board hardware monitoring and includes SOYO's Hardware Health Utility to streamline PC system management. Among the many hardware monitoring functions are CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. fan speed and temperature monitoring; WOL (Wake On LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) function to simplify network management; software power-off controls and remote and/or alarm power-on control. About SOYO Computer, Inc. SOYO Computer, Inc was founded in 1985, with worldwide headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, and branch offices in Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. The company sells its products through Tech Data and a select group of resellers, system integrators, and VARs worldwide. SOYO's U.S. headquarters are at 41484 Christy Street, Fremont, CA 94538. For information, call 510/226-7696 or visit www.soyousa.com. SOYO is a registered trademark. Other product names are either trademarks or trade names of their respective holders. |
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