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OCWorkbench has published a SOYO K8USA ALi M1687 Athlon64 Mainboard review



K8USA Dragon Ultra features support for the AMD Socket-754 Athlon 64 Based on ALi M1687 Chipset supporting 400 MHz FSB, DDR400/333, 6-ch audio, 8X AGP PRO, overclock capability, 10/100/1000 Mbps Giga LAN, USB 2.0, Serial ATA, IEEE 1394. Not only that the package also comes with embedded ALI M5283 RAID chip, provide Two channel serial ATA and One channel parallel ATA with RAID 0,1. What that means is that you can have IDE RAID and SATA RAID + normal IDE making it one of the boards that caters for upgrades in the near future. On top of all these, the board features o/c functions allowing you to adjust fsb, voltage levels (see gallery). In our tests, SOYO K8USA scores first in almost all categories outperforming all competitor chipset/boards.
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