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3D Spotlight has posted a review on the Soyo K7V Dragon Plus motherboard, which is one of the latest VIA KT266a motherboards



The purple colour of the PCI slots, somewhat unsurprisingly, did not hinder the installation of peripherals. The AGP Pro slow accommodated my large GeForce 2 Ultra comfortably, and the DIMM slots, despite being near the AGP slot at one end, did not require the removal of the video card before inserting or removing memory. The top end of these memory slots is adjacent to two fan connectors, and installing and removing fans from these connections is somewhat awkward, although this is a minor bugbear.

Soyo has been very liberal with these fan connectors, with two CPU fan connectors (with FOC) as mentioned before above the DIMM slots. The other fan connectors are to be located next to the green chipset heatsink (for powering the northbridge chipset fan), next to the AGP slot (useful for powering video card fans), and at the bottom right of the board (well positioned to power an intake fan).
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