K7VTA Pro

[Tom]

I have to say I love this board. I picked up one of these from
www.mwave.com for $89 plus shipping to replace an Asus A7V133 that would not
run at 133mhz fsb (on it's way back to Asus as I write this). My 1g Athlon
is now running at 145mhz x 8 = 1160mhz at default vcore. This is using one
generic 256mb pc133 sdram and one 128mb Kingston Value Ram pc133 sdram.

For anyone looking for a bargain priced board that performs like a premium
product I have to recommend this board.

I'v used Asus, Abit, Iwill, MSI and Epox socket A boards and for the price
this easily beats them all.
I just wish it had the clock multiplier adjustment in the BIOS rather that
with dip switches. But other than that it's been perfect so far.

When my A7V133 comes back from Asus I think I'll be keeping the Soyo and
selling the Asus.

BTW: I picked up an OCZ Gladiator copper heatsink for $18.99 to use with the
1g Athlon and was blown away with the performance. Nearly the equal of the
SK6 I have in another Athlon system but less than half the price. At
1160mhz with a case temp of 30c the cpu runs 44c under full load. A 14c
deferential from ambient is excellent.