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Soyo P4I875P Dragon 2 Platinum Edition
BIOS
The Dragon 2 PE BIOS is very similar to most new Phoenix BIOS'. What makes this BIOS different is the "Soyo Combo" menu. This section of the BIOS lets you access most of the advanced features of the board, including integrated peripherals and Overclocking options. The BIOS allows the FSB to reach up to 511, which could theoretically get over 2 GHz with a quad pumped FSB. Overclocking the FSB shouldn't be too much trouble with the ability to lock the AGP/PCI speeds to 33/66MHz, 36/73MHz, or 40/80MHz. Sadly this board only allows memory bus multipliers of 1.25 and 1.33. The latest BIOS allows a third ratio of 0.8.     Another down side of this BIOS is the vcore. You are only able to reach up to 1.6v. DRAM voltages can be 2.7v, 2.8v, or 2.9v.   The Dragon 2 PE's BIOS does not have any fan speed or temperature alarms or protections, and the temperature sensors never seemed to change. You will have to rely on your own thermal probe with this board.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Board Layout Page 3: Features & Accessories Page 4: BIOS Page 5: Test Rig & Sandra CPU Benchmarks Page 6: Sandra & Aida32 Memory Benchmarks Page 7: ScienceMark & PCMark02 Benchmarks Page 8: 3dMark01, 3DMark03, & GLMark Benchmarks Page 9: Overclocking & Conclusion 
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4 User Comments 1 - Posted by
Kurtis
on August 21, 2003 - 11:41 pm feeding time is the best over @ Brian's house ;) ;)
2 - Posted by
Rich
on August 22, 2003 - 9:09 am Who manufactures the Gigabit ethernet controller on that board?
3 - Posted by
Brian
on August 22, 2003 - 12:36 pm Intel.
4 - Posted by
Rich
on August 22, 2003 - 12:48 pm The reason I asked is because I have seen a lot of problems with Broadcom Gigabit controllers, especially with onboard Ethernet. Thanks for info :D
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