On 15 Apr 01 at 0:28, Roy wrote:

>>> I recently acquired 3 of the Soyo SY-7IBW motherboards (dumpster
>>> diving). The manual I downloaded at Soyo's site only mentions the
>>> Celeron 300a-500mhz Socket 370 CPU and I was wondering if there are
>>> any AMD, Cyrix, or other non-Intel chips that will work in this
>>> board. I don't dislike Intel or anything, but only wish to know all
>>> of my options. Any other comments about this board would also be
>>> helpful. TIA.

>>I guess what you meant was SY-71WB board, which is strictly a celeron board
>>which supports only a 66MHz bus, and it is listed on the soyo website as an
>>obsolete product.

Thanks for the info. The lack of upgradability might explain their
presence in the dumpster. Except for the fact that it has no ISA
slots, one of them still might be a significant upgrade from my
Pentium 100.

Regards,
Dale Mentzer

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