SOYO - SOYO nForce3 SY-CK8 DRAGON Plus Announced

SOYO has announced it will release two Athlon 64 based motherboards, one AMD 8151 and one nForce3 150:

SOYO’s SY-CK8 DRAGON Plus is the company’s first motherboard to feature nVidia’s nForce3 150 (CK8) single chip solution chipset. The nForce3 chipset includes embedded RAID Level 0/1, and supports provide 2 channel Serial ATA and one channel Parallel ATA.

SOYO’s SY-CK8 DRAGON Plus supports up to 3GB (3-184 pin DDR sockets) of memory, which increases processor speed, and accelerates the memory bandwidth. The ATX form factor board is expandable with three Bus Mastering ATA E-IDE PCI slots, three independent channels for six IDE devices, and one AGP PRO slot (support up to 8x mode).

SOYO has also embedded Surround Sound on the SY-CK8 DRAGON Plus, which saves valuable expansion slots. The embedded on board CMI 9739 AC97 audio chipset provides a 6-channel audio solution. On board 10/100 Ethernet is also included. List price of the SY-CK8 DRAGON Plus is $139

Both boards come with all the standard I/O’s such as PS/2 (for mouse and keyboard), two serial RS-232 ports, a parallel printer port, Serial ATA, six USB 2.0 ports (4 rear, 2 pin header), one FDD port and an FIR infrared port.

SOYO has also integrated many smart overclocking and enhanced PC monitoring features into the SY-CK8 DRAGON Plus. Users can customize their boards to specific applications by adjusting the CPU FSB, core voltage & multiplier, and memory and AGP Pro voltages. Component safety features include, on-board voltage monitors, CPU fan speed monitor, CPU temperature monitoring through flexible thermal sensor and CPU overheating sensors.

Full press release @ SOYO Computer Inc