Soyo dragon Is SUCK.

[Cybordolphin]

Received my second board and it went TU within 3 weeks. First the NIC's went out (eventually on both boards), then the second board decided to never power up again. Sorry I made a very unwise choice. I will never buy their product again. I purchased and received both boards from Newegg. Not sure if they are pushing junk/"B" inventory or what. Going back to MSI.

Just thought I would voice my experience, as I wish someone would have for me before I made such a sorry choice.

Soyo's quality control is obviously worth shiznit.

Can't wait for my new MSI K7N420 PRO!

 

[johndoe52]

A couple of my friends (about 5) all got that same exact board and none of them have had problems. I was going to get the dragon plus but the epox board worked out better for what I already had.

 

[Jayczar]

Sorry to hear about your problems but the SOYO
Dragons are among the best motherboards
available.

 

[DoubleL]

Well I have built some Dragon+ systems and I couldn't ask for a more stable computer, I even put one on my desk as my main system with my 8KHA+ as my back up, Have been running it for about 6 months now and not one lockup or blue screen and that is something with windows me running on it and xp on the backup, Sorry you don't care for board but their is nothing wrong with Soyo quality but you can get a bad board with any brand, Of the people I know that runs the Dragon+ none have had a problem

 

[AA0]

Soyo's quality control has always been a little questionable. MSIs too.

when people complain about something, why do they have to use retarded expressions like "is suck", makes you sound incompetent, and I personally shift the blame to the person, not the board. (most of the time)

 

[CoDerEd]

My opinion, every mobo production line must have a bad board
once in a while, sure they supposed to test it before it's for sale.
Everybody who has a bad experience with a particular board seems to
repeat the same mistake, they got the second one, third one, and the bad luck still in there.

I personally has experience with some brands included:
Epox, Supermicro, Asus, ECS, Abit, Gigabyte, Iwill, and MSI.
none of them die on me, so i assumed thet i never have that bad luck
which happened to some people.

My suggestion if you received a bad or DOA board, RMA and don't bother to
order the same one, get another brand and I wish you luck.

 

[mschell]

I don't know about Soyo's other boards but the SiS 645 Dragon Ultra has a BIOS where most of the performance settings do absolutly nothing. Selling a board like this is lying to the buyer, promising a highly adjustable motherboard while in fact having less "tweakability" than any board out there.
Did I mention too expensive also - Soyo= expensive garbage.

 

[Jrouss]

Have you tried the BIOS from April 3rd. SO far I am seeing a drastic improvement with tweaking. I can now change the valtage and cold boot.

 

[Regalk]

I agree with some of the comments of AA0. Still there are so many reviews/forums yet people buy boards and whine after when they can't handle them.
Take the Soyo SiS 645 offering - this board was priced way too high for a SiS chipset. Sis is a decent chipset with good performance (equalling and in some cases surpassing Intel/Via) but unfortunately the stigma attached to SiS is low cost. The Soyo board has other good features but at almost double MSI's 645 ultra was definitely not part of the equation. I initially looked at it and decided I cannot pay that much for a SiS chipset board regardless of the extras. I went with the Asus P4S333. I am inclined to believe that Soyo tried to capitalize on their reputation from their previous offerings.

On a side note has anyone seen this message yesterday evening when trying to access Anandtech's home page ..."You are not welcome here" - I was unable to access and kept seeing this!!!

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Hey Regalk, in answer to

<< On a side note has anyone seen this message yesterday evening when trying to access Anandtech's home page ..."You are not welcome here" - I was unable to access and kept seeing this!!! >>

Zuni explained it in another thread--

<< Wrong on all accounts No, it was not hacked. It was the load balancers they failed and were going to a temp page that the linux guys had up. It's being investigated as to why they failed. >>

 

[Cybordolphin]

Sorry guys...

I have been building computers since 1986. I'd say I can handle a motherboard....lol. This product is SUCK. And I wish someone would have warned me before I bought one. I do recall reading a thread where someone else complained of the onboard NIC going out shortly after purchase as well.

2 boards in a row bad.....? Not a coincindence. They obviously are pushin crap. That or Newegg is selling "b" products.

Stability was not an issue. It performed very nicely.... while it lasted.