PC Chips boards were fine too for the most part. The shop I worked at back then used to sell tons of budget machines with PC Chips boards with very few failures. Trick was to not use the cheapest possible PSU's.

effy wrote on 2021-02-27, 15:02:

PC Chips boards were fine too for the most part. The shop I worked at back then used to sell tons of budget machines with PC Chips boards with very few failures. Trick was to not use the cheapest possible PSU's.

There were some decent boards, but all had wafer-thin PCB, cheapest possible specs of VRMs and then there was that well-documented fake cache thing, complete with modded (and soldered) BIOS to cover it up.

They *could* work, and indeed a good PSU helps any board's stability, but PC Chips were the lowest of the low, both in terms of build quality and business ethics.

PARKE wrote on 2021-02-27, 12:11:

Looks like a great board. The (only) difference is described on page 2 of the manual:soyo.JPG

The problem is, there are 3 versions of them 5EH5, 5EH a 5EHM. In anadtech review, there is mentioned 1024kb L2 cache as optional (with red) also by 5EH5.
So are SY-5EH5 and SY-5EH same boards?

The available info suggests that the 'SY-5EH' comes in two versions, not 3.
The '5' with 512Kb cache and the 'M' with 1 Mb cache.