PCBONEZ wrote:Soyo 7VBA is properly called SY-7VBA133 and it does NOT support Tualatin. (693A Chipset)
They used to write it SY-7VBA 133 (wit […]
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Soyo 7VBA is properly called SY-7VBA133 and it does NOT support Tualatin. (693A Chipset)
They used to write it SY-7VBA 133 (with a space) so it got typo-ed a lot when people dropped the 133.
The Soyo SY-7VBA133U does support Tualatin. Different chipset.
I have one SY-7VBA133U I got just to play with. Recapped it but never used it.
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FIC FR33E (or sometimes FR33E-L) The "L" version had OB LAN.
PLE133T Chipset - The ISA Slot, OB sound and LAN were optional with these. Some had them and some didn't.
I have three versions including one with the ISA. The one with ISA is hard to find.
I like the one because of the very small foot print + ISA + they take 1Gb RAM. Great workbench testing board.
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Gigabyte GA-6IEML - These support !.4G PIII-S natively.
815E chipset - No ISA
Years ago I had several hundred of these leased out in office machines.
I think there are still 30 or so kicking around there.
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There were in fact 815 boards with ISA by using a bridge chip. I know, as I have one in a build of mine, though I never used it's ISA slot. I know about the troubles this might cause, perhaps such boards can be put in another list of their own, like "Tualatin +ISA (bridged)" or something.
The Soyo 7VBA entry (along with the question mark) has been removed.
The Soyo SY-7VBA133U was already added in the Tualatin list with 2x ISA slot. There might be variants of this board lacking one or both ISA slots, but I don't know. I could change the ISA-slot list to include the number of ISA slots listed is it's maximum or a disclaimer of some sorts?
About the 2 FIC boards you mention. Both seem to be the same, but the FIC FR33E-L seems to lack the ISA slot (it has just solder dots) where the FIC FR33E seems to have the ISA slot. Not sure about the OB LAN, but that's not relevant for this list anyway.
Thanks, the list is updated! 😀
PCBONEZ wrote:Tetrium wrote:I can tell most manufacturers just by looking at the model name lol
CT = ChainTech
EP = Epox
MS-???? is always MSI
SL Soltek
D?? […]
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PCBONEZ wrote:Adding the manufacturers names would be beneficial.
I can tell most manufacturers just by looking at the model name 🤣
CT = ChainTech
EP = Epox
MS-???? is always MSI
SL Soltek
D???? is always Fujitsu Siemens (I think their boards are nice!)
Except for the ones starting with "GA-", this one remains a mystery to me after all those years...there doesn't seem to be any logic to it whatsoever and google never helped me either, so I guess that one day, on my final day, this will be the first question to ask once I cross the threshold of a dream...
Yeah. I know that and you know that but people new to this won't so including the information in a public medium like a wiki is a no brainier.
True, but searching the motherboard model number will always result in finding it's manufacturer anyway. And in some cases it might actually hamper finding information as many boards had model numbers making them indistinguishable from retail boards made by the same manufacturer.
Some boards may even have the same manufacturer, but have different retailers. Using just the model number is the best way to make it idiot-proof I think, or at least for now.
I dunno, but at first I'll do it this way as these basics seem to work and because I find it more important to have a complete and usable list then to not have all the manufacturers named and numbered, so to way 😀