Well, the price of this Soyo is amazing, but for various reasons, it
doesn't suit me:

a) There is no store in my area that sells it (and I live in Israel, so I
cannot order it online, from the US).

b) It has only 3 PCI which is a problem in my case. At the moment, I use 3
PCI slots (1: SCSI, 2: sound card (better than the internal one of the
Soyo), 3: modem-fax), and I have an ethernet card, which I might use when
I upgrade my connection to ADSL (I prefer it over USB connection, and
mainly because I already have such a card).

c) I guess that it is a mistake in the specification, and that it supports
my Celeron 800...

d) It uses the Via Apollo pro chipset, so I guess that its performance is
not higher than the TUSL/2 and the Gigabyte, or DFI (all of them use the
815EP).

But you say that you won't use Gigabyte motherboards... should I
understand from it that you do not have good experience with them? Or
perhaps you heard something?

I got in the past quite excellent opinions about some of their Pentium IV
motherboards, and this is the reason why at the moment from the list I
mentioned, I tend towards them, but I don't have specific knowledge about
this model, and on Usenet (via Google) I found very little discussion
about it.

Uzi

On 13 Jul 2002, at 20:08, Larry Fisk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> you might check out this board
> http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-7VCM
> Soyo makes good boards, no ISA slot though and only 3PCI slots......
> but cheap! And you would have a little more upgrade path.
> I personally won't use a gigabyte board, but Asus is good.
>
> <>< Larry Fisk
>          Fisk Computers
>            Fruitvale, Idaho
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Uzi Paz" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 6:52 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Mainboard for Celeron 800
>
>
> > My motherboard went dead (smell of something burned, I now use
> > temporarilty another motherboard), and I need to replace it with a new
> > one. I don't want to invest much money, and my options are: Gigabyte
> > GA-60XT Asus TU-V4X Asus TUSL/2 DFI CS-62T

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