Soyo SY-5EHM

This is a great board. I have installed this board in a couple dozen systems and have seen very few problems with it (which is surpising for SOYO!) It does not however support Intel CPU's over 233Mhz. As well, it does not support Intel's weirder speeds such as 120 and 150 Mhz. It does suppport AMD K6-2 and K6-3's up tp 550Mhz. It can take SDRAM in either the PC100 or pc133 variety which make it very versatile. I have also seen this board accept a 40Gb drive with the latest BIOS flash....who knows, it may support even larger. I would reccommend this board to anyone with an older socket 7 motherboard who would like to get around ...  Read the complete review

Another socket 7 motherboard review from me here and like my previous 2, it's another one close to my heart with which i've had a long standing usage with. There is only a small handful of Soyo dealers in England which is a shame because they make some very nice, stable, good performing motherboards and I would have no hesitation in selling one through my business or using one in my home machine. This is one of there very good entries in the socket 7 area. It is also a bargain price too which is just another bonus. This board uses the not very well known Eteq chipset, but don't let that put you off because in my experience it is a very ...  Read the complete review

Even though, most of you who would be interested in things like upgrading your motherboard are already familiar with the jargon involved, I'll try and explain everything in clear English. I bought my SOYO 5EHM about 18 months ago, and it's been sitting quite nicely inside my computer, doing whatever is asked of it. But, it's only recently now that I've been considering upgrading my processor from AMD K6-2 300Mhz to something cheap, but meatier, that I've realised what a good mainboard the 5EHM is. The Soyo 5EHM is an AT motherboard (referring to it's size and shape) for Super Socket 7 processors (shape of processor which ...  Read the complete review

I bought one of these a year ago to upgrade my old P120 machine. I was pleased with the high standard of user guide supplied, it answered all the questions needed to get it up and running. They also supply this on CD with has further details about settings,help files and other motherboard in the range. This super 7 board supports up to 500mhz processors from AMD,Cyrix and some of the older Intel P54/55 processors. The bus can run up to 100mhz. There's even an overheat temperature alarm, usefull to warn of fan failure. I've found their technical help department to be very good and their web site gives all the updated bios patches etc ...  Read the complete review