Well done! I had only seen slim desktop AT cases from Quest so far. Looks really nice. 😀

Very nice!

Just tried the turbo switch connector... Norton SysInfo gave the cpu a score of 287 and with turbo disables this goes to ~150 ... I was hoping it would go even lower but that's what I get for installing a 5x86/133mhz 🤣

Performance suggestions:
Pic 1:disable all the 'shadow' thingy
Pic 2:Disable 'auto configuration' and put Read:1WS and Write:0WS if your ram is 60ns,if 70ns set it to Read:2WS and Write:1WS; set parallel port mode to SPP, that gives less IRQ problems

sidenotes:
1-"built in NCR 810 SCSI driver" that means that there is a built-in BIOS driver for that SCSI card
2-Use speedsys 4.78 and post you pic
3-What do you mean by DOS Win98 core?

I must say, I'm constantly impressed with the quality of Soyo boards.

It's a shame they're not in the biz any more.

sebaz_ri wrote:

What do you mean by DOS Win98 core?

He means MS-DOS 7.1 (which supports FAT32 and is not a standalone version) which Windows 98 comes with and runs on top of.

SquallStrife wrote:

I must say, I'm constantly impressed with the quality of Soyo boards.

It's a shame they're not in the biz any more.

+1
Back then I had two boards from Soyo. A 386, which was later upgraded by a 5VA2 and a pentium 100. I might be influenced by the fact that I owned those two and were problem-free, but I also remember that Soyo was regarded as a good manufacturer. Nowadays during discussions about retro pc hardware, I see that people tend to have two completely different opinions. Some agree with me, but some others say that they were among the worst boards made ever....

sebaz_ri wrote:

Performance suggestions: Pic 1:disable all the 'shadow' thingy Pic 2:Disable 'auto configuration' and put Read:1WS and Write:0WS […]
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Performance suggestions:
Pic 1:disable all the 'shadow' thingy
Pic 2:Disable 'auto configuration' and put Read:1WS and Write:0WS if your ram is 60ns,if 70ns set it to Read:2WS and Write:1WS; set parallel port mode to SPP, that gives less IRQ problems

sidenotes:
1-"built in NCR 810 SCSI driver" that means that there is a built-in BIOS driver for that SCSI card
2-Use speedsys 4.78 and post you pic
3-What do you mean by DOS Win98 core?

thanks for these, I have enabled the "shadow thingies" because the instructions of UMB drivers insisted on them... will test without them
I will follow your suggestions and report on Monday with the results

and by DOS-win98-core I mean what AdamP wrote 😊

I am back with results faster than expected 😀

@sebaz_ri:
I did what you recommended and it actually was slower.... I use 4 identical 60ns 16MB simms and my RAM speed went from 24.26 to 22.04mb/sec ... I suppose "auto" configuration does use the optimal settings... cpu score was the same, 50.12

@SquallStrife, Markk
yeah Soyo are nice mobos , they were certainly very popular in Greece...
I can't comment on their quality because they could just be cheap mobos and were used in Greece to reduce the cost of machines (on the XT/286/386 and early 486 era computers here where considered a luxury and their import tax was double/triple of other consumer goods, IIIRC in some cases more than 40% or even 60% - my father was importing goods back then - so Soyo might just be some cheap mobos that fit the job).
So when you have a brand for so long ppl tend to consider it really good so they continue to use and buy it even though other brands might be better, simply because they knew it for so long.

keropi wrote:

I am back with results faster than expected :) […]
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I am back with results faster than expected 😀

@sebaz_ri:
I did what you recommended and it actually was slower.... I use 4 identical 60ns 16MB simms and my RAM speed went from 24.26 to 22.04mb/sec ... I suppose "auto" configuration does use the optimal settings... cpu score was the same, 50.12

@SquallStrife, Markk
yeah Soyo are nice mobos , they were certainly very popular in Greece...
I can't comment on their quality because they could just be cheap mobos and were used in Greece to reduce the cost of machines (on the XT/286/386 and early 486 era computers here where considered a luxury and their import tax was double/triple of other consumer goods, IIIRC in some cases more than 40% or even 60% - my father was importing goods back then - so Soyo might just be some cheap mobos that fit the job).
So when you have a brand for so long ppl tend to consider it really good so they continue to use and buy it even though other brands might be better, simply because they knew it for so long.

@keropi
Post a pic with the 'auto configuration' disabled
the speedsys 4.70 'memory speed index' is not in mb/s please use ver 4.78

@SquallStrife,Markk
I have 6 Soyo mobos, 1 socket 7,4 slot 1 and 1 socket 462
the socket 7 got a barrel battery and now is dead because of the leaking
the slot 1 ones are 6BA+ 6BA+III and 2 6VBA133
about the 6BA+:good board but some BIOS releases generates IRQ problems in Win98
6ba+III:excellent board,takes P-III 1000 but this one have in the past a bit of bulged capacitors
6VBA133:really crappy board 1 crashes with win2000 and the other one was working OK until someday it simply died
the socket 462 is good also

@sebaz_ri:
I am currently using version 478, the pic on the first shot is from 4.78 (sst478.zip)
When auto configuration is disabled all that changes is the DRAM SPEED that I can go to "fastest" but the machine will hang on IDE detection (60ns fpm simms used) , all other values are already on the lowest from auto... well I don't really expect much from a SiS mobo 😁

Don't know why but i see ver 4.70 in that speedsys shot

^ yeah you are right... maybe I have an older version in the path and the machine runs this instead the new 4.78 I extracted... 🤣 I'll re-do the tests, this is embarrassing 🤣

^ yeah you are right... maybe I have an older version in the path and the machine runs this instead the new 4.78 I extracted... 🤣 I'll re-do the tests, this is embarrassing 🤣

heh, I am posting this
from Arachne 1.95 🤣 ,
just testing