Soyo KT600 Dragon Plus

Enter the Dragon

Soyo was a big name back when overclocking first started to take off, then just dropped out of sight. That is, until a few years ago when they came back with their DRAGON series of motherboards. They rivaled Gigabyte and MSI for features and then included extra goodies in the box to top it off. If you don't remember it, it was similar to what DFI's been doing for the packaging of their LanParty series of boards.

The KT600 Dragon Plus is Soyo's basic KT600 board, but that doesn't mean this is a vanilla motherboard. With the VIA KT600 chipset and the VT8237 "southbridge", the basic chipset features aren't as basic as they used to be.This is certainly a good thing, and just part of what the KT600 Dragon Plus has in store.

• VIA KT600/VT8237 chipset
  
• Supports up to AthlonXP 3200+
  
• Supports up to Duron 1.8GHz
  
• 3x 184-pin DIMM up to 3GB
  
• 1x AGP 8x
  
• 5x PCI
  
• 2x Serial ATA ports w RAID 0,1
  
• 2x IDE ports
  
• 1x Floppy port
  
• 4x USB + 4 w bracket
  
• 1x RJ45 10/100 NIC
  
• 1x Keyboard/ 1x Mouse PS/2
  
• 2x Serial ports
  
• 1x Parallel port
  
• 1x Line-out/1x Line-in/1x Mic
  
• Award BIOS
  

As you can see, the features aren't really any different than what's seen on most KT600 boards out there.

The KT600 Dragon+ that I have is Version 1.0. The first run of the SY-KT600 Dragon Plus had firewire included, but have been removed from V 1.0. If you want the Firewire, the original can still be found on-line.