Motherboards

[Crylynx]

Does anybody know which mobo would be a better board the SY-P4X400 DRAGON Ultra Platinum Edition located at http://www.soyogroup.com/products/proddesc.php?id=159
Or a dell deminsion 4550 located at
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim4550/
Thanks for any input.

Crylynx

 

[Triple6]

Do you mean should you buy a Dell 4550 or custom build a system?

Or do you want to know if your system is better then the Dell 4550?

 

[Crylynx]

Sorry I aquired a third board for free and gonna let one go. Either the soyo p4x400 or the dell 4550 that my son has. I got a asus p4p800-vm for free so just gonna buy some dual channel ddr for it and put my cpu in it for now.

 

[Triple6]

Will the motherboard even fit into the case? Check the size and I/O panel at the back to see if it'll even work.

The front LEDs, switches, and USB may need to be re-wired to get then to connect.

The Soyo is the nicer board and offers more features and flexibility but I don't know if it'd be worth it to swap it out. The Soyo has 6 channel audio, supports PC3200 RAM, AGP 8X, allows overclocking, amoung other things but depending on what else you plan tpo use in it these features/benefits may not be used. Windows will definitely have a fit when you move it from the Intel based board to a VIA chipset board.

 

[haplo210]

scrap the dell if you can...it has one fundamental flaw...its a dell, enough to put anyone offl. Tjhe soyto is a good board from what i can see.,