Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum

[mockingbird]

Re: Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum

I have to agree. Soyo had the best BIOS out of everyone. I wonder if those Chinese Soyos come with English BIOS.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum

I have a SOYO KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum (its a nice looking board and has served me well) After 10+ years should I even bother recapping it? Every Cap on it is a Sacon Cap. 14 3300uf 6.3v, 23 1000uf 10v, and like 36 220uf 16v / 22uf 25v caps. I guess they wanted to stay with the silver look since the board is platinum colored.

I've seen fake Silver OSTs on Soyo boards.

Soyo got sued in the US over their caps and their response was to stop selling motherboards here.
Rather interesting as the company got started in Fremont California.
Was a US company originally...

With good caps they are good boards.
If you can use it then recap it.
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[PCBONEZ]

Re: Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum

Got news for you.
Soyo still makes boards but they only sell them in Asia.
Here is a Soyo LGA 1155
http://detail.zol.com.cn/motherboard/index277119.shtml

[brethin]

Re: Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum

I do not think I will mess with it. I do not really have the time to recap it and have replaced the machine with another that was just sitting around collecting dust. I will post it here for sale cheap if anyone wants it for a project.

[tazwegion]

Re: Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum

It is worth the effort (to fix it) if you appreciate older tech and still have a use for it, I haven't managed to land a Soyo board yet (and I doubt I ever will) but it's "refreshing" to know they're still out there kicking around, BTW those mainboards (and the KT333 chipset) were released back in 2002 so it's actually 9 years old but that's still a decent service life eh?

So many manufacturers have gone the way of the Dodo OR simply got out of the mainstream PC industry (motherboards)...

• Abit
• EPoX
• Soyo
• Soltek
• Chaintech

[Pyr0Beast]

Re: Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum

If you have spare time, you can do it.

[bigbeark]

Re: Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum

I have a SOYO KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum (its a nice looking board and has served me well) After 10+ years should I even bother recapping it? Every Cap on it is a Sacon Cap. 14 3300uf 6.3v, 23 1000uf 10v, and like 36 220uf 16v / 22uf 25v caps. I guess they wanted to stay with the silver look since the board is platinum colored.

Hey, I just bought one of these with bulging Sacons.
I had already recapped a K7V Dragon that runs cool and works really well after recapping. That one had Wendell caps.
I'm going to recap mine. I like Soyo boards, and Abit too.
I've had good luck with these.

[brethin]

I have a SOYO KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum (its a nice looking board and has served me well) After 10+ years should I even bother recapping it? Every Cap on it is a Sacon Cap. 14 3300uf 6.3v, 23 1000uf 10v, and like 36 220uf 16v / 22uf 25v caps. I guess they wanted to stay with the silver look since the board is platinum colored.