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A three jumper
solution is provided for bus speed selection (FSB), either 66 MHz, 100 MHz,
or 133 MHz FSB mode with a PCI divider
of 1/4 so that the PCI bus remains within spec. Bus speed selection
can also be selected from within the Bios.
Stability
We have been
running the 6VBA-133 for 24 hrs constantly in some time-demo's.
Stability is excellent, we have noticed no flaws, errors or crashes
whatsoever.
Soyo has
taken the standard Award BIOS and improved upon it just a bit by simplifying performance due to tweaking. The Bios has been setup in a
way that is easy to understand.
The 6VBA-133 comes with the normal setup of connectors, two high speed
16550 compatible serial ports, one multi-node parallel port (SPP/EPP/ECP),
two universal serial bus ports, PS/2 keyboard and of course a PS/2
mouse port.
Integrated on the mobo you'll find two IDE ports (4 HD's), and a
floppy disk controller.
Performance
We have tested the motherboard within
our guidelines and therefore tested it constantly for 24 Hours. As
said before no errors have been found regarding stability. What about performance then ?
Based upon standard PC100 RAM the performance is almost exactly as any
good motherboard, it can be compared with your average BX based motherboard.
Winstones are close to your normal BX based board with the same specs
and are the same compared to Superpower's VIA PC 133 motherboard. When
you insert 133 MHz Ram and increase the FSB then performance should go
up. However, search the web a bit and you'll find out that at this time
133MHz systems are not 'that' much faster then 100MHz FSB based
systems. In the near future we will do some more research and tests on
the 133 Mhz bus advantage.
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