Bij Hard|OCP hebben ze een vergelijking online staan tussen de Soyo SY-7VMA (PM133) en Transcend's TS-ASL3 (i815) moederbord. Zoals bekend hebben beide chipsets een ingebakken videokaart, waarbij de Savage4 van de PM133 heel wat beter presteert dan de i752 van Intel's i815. Echter, als er een GeForce2 AGP kaart wordt gebruikt blijft de PM133 juist weer ietsie achter. Als we ze vergelijken op overklokbaarheid blijkt de Transcend redelijk goed mee te komen; hij ondersteund FSB tweaks vanuit het BIOS (tot 166MHz in stapjes van 1MHz) en voltage tweaking, iets waar de Soyo overigens ook over beschikt. Die laatste moet het echter doen met 14 FSB opties. Anyway, twee aardige plankjes die je niet snel in een tweaksysteem zult vinden maar wel prima volstaan in bv een tweede office doos. Jammer overigens dat de Transcend plank het loodje heeft gelegd tijdens het schrijven van de review :'(:
I had convinced myself that I wasn't going to pull any punches with these motherboards by declaring one a definitive winner and the other a lowly mud suckin' loser. Unfortunately, I don't really feel it's fair to do that. I've got a few excuses... err... I mean reasons behind this. First and foremost, one of the contestants is dead. Generally speaking, you can't have a competition if one of the contestants is dead. Unless it's some sort of race to see who dies first, in which case, the Transcend easily wins that one. But I suppose I gotta say something, so here it goes. I wouldn't exactly recommend either one of these motherboards to anyone who had any intentions of serious overclocking. Neither of them will cut it in that respect. To be honest, I think most people who are looking at these motherboards are probably going to base their decision on the capabilities. The Soyo has an ISA slot, and the Transcend, a CMR. So if you need one or the other, your decision is made up for you. The Soyo can handle 1.5GB of SDRAM in any manner you see fit, as long as it can fit in the 3 SDRAM slots. The Transcend is limited to only 512MB, but how you get to that number is very critical. If you have 3 sticks of 64MB PC133 SDRAM, you might not want the Transcend board.
Anyways, either one of these motherboards will easily fit the bill, if all you're looking for is a do-it-all style motherboard for a general system. If you are building a rig to leave over at Aunt Sally's house so she can get some email, or surf that goat pr0n when you are gone, both boards fit the bill. They leave you a pretty inexpensive alternative and no sound or Vid card to purchase in order to complete the system.
Wij danken Mindfields voor de link.
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