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Soyo SY-7VCA2 and Tualatin Support

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First post, by realbadpainting

Posted on 2022-02-14, 21:37

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Hey all, I'm currently running a PIII 800EB on a DFI CA-61. I'm interested in upgrading this setup, and I can pickup this Soyo SY-7VCA2 board for about $30 which appears to be an upgrade from my older DFI board. I'm wondering if anyone may be able to shed some light on whether or not this board would support Tualatin? The DFI board is able to run my 800EB at 133/6x just fine, so I think I wouldn't bother upgrading unless it opened up the option of dropping in a PII 1400 or something along those lines in the future.

The manual says "New released Intel Socket 370 CPUs will very likely be supported by the SY-7VCA2 as well" which I find pretty funny in technical documentation. I've attached a screenshot from the manual, and a link to it: http://www.motherboards.org/files/manuals/107/m7vca210.pdf

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Reply 1 of 4, by Horun

Posted on 2022-02-15, 00:04

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Don't think so. According to this from 2003 it says no:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031006140421/ht … bdesc.php?id=15
and this: https://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Soyo/SY-7VCA-2.html = No on Tualatin

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Reply 2 of 4, by realbadpainting

Posted on 2022-02-15, 01:19

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Horun wrote on 2022-02-15, 00:04:

Don't think so. According to this from 2003 it says no:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031006140421/ht … bdesc.php?id=15
and this: https://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Soyo/SY-7VCA-2.html = No on Tualatin

Thanks bud appreciate that, I hadn't thought to use waybackmachine on the SOYO website! Bummer that it doesn't. I do wonder if I could OC my 800EB to 933mhz on the SOYO board. My DFI board uses jumpers to set everything and it doesn't matter what I set it at, the 800EB maxes out at 133x6. I'm assuming thats a limitation of the board and not the chip itself

Reply 3 of 4, by mattferris@hotmail.c

Posted on 2022-02-15, 01:50

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I am reading the manual for your board. It looks like the available FSBs you can set (via JP2 and JP4) are Auto, 66, 100, and 133. If I remember correctly, that CPU is multiplier locked (someone correct me if I'm wrong), so you probably can't overclock.

Reply 4 of 4, by Am386DX-40

Posted on 2022-02-15, 12:35

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The Soyo model that supports Tualatin processors is the 7VBA133U

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