RETRO UNBOXING SOYO S370 Pentium III Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today's retro edition of my unboxing
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lus Tech tips is going to be featuring two things first a company that no
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longer exists soyo motherboard and
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second my little brother who was already featured on a fan unboxing uh much to
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the uh bewilderment of my normal
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audience so first of all um Asher I
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would like you to tell me what this is designed for this is designed for
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running a computer it is it is designed
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for Microsoft Windows XP okay awesome
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and it is the home of what the dragon home of the Dragon this could very well
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be where they invented the digital Dragon the digital Dragon okay so on the
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back there is no information whatsoever awesome soil motherboards
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yeah on the back there's nothing on the side there's nothing on the front
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there's nothing there's a little star oh wait here we found something oh okay so
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please tell me uh what what okay so we got Pentium 3s um AGP supports three SD
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RAM um oo nice yeah yeah 1.5 gab maximum
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1.5 gigs Max so that's that's more like
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a minimum these days so let's get this open so the first thing we will find is
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a warning please read the warning out for me brosi warning comes with two pictures
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this motherboard does not support older type of Celeron processors I'm not sure
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the exist anymore 300 a
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5333 MHz don't know what that means ppga
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package type a bunch of letters and numbers please do not install older type
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of Sal processor on this motherboard it
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might damage your Celeron Processor or
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motherboard that's a damaged one that's a not damaged one is what I'm guessing
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Okay so then inside we will find some accessories we will find two IDE cables
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one of which is an ad0 pin and one of which is not an IDE cable but rather a
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floppy cable my bad they're gray I
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thought those are belts they are not belts I know you you never were the
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bright one in the family were you so we've got a soyo motherboard CD manual
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and driver's disc including promagic
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image it and dpu whatever those are normally I would recommend you go to the
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manufacturer's website um to download the latest drivers but I'm going to go
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ahead and Venture a guess that the soyo website no longer exists
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not sure the manufacturer exists anymore either no they don't I already said that
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okay this is the quick start guide where you will find um how to quickly start
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although yeah this motherboard probably doesn't even start anymore in fact I
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think it even had a label on it that it's dead mind you it smells new
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actually no I think I think this board is brand spanking new well like new
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never used so anyway why don't we talk a little bit about the features of this
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board first of all we have a socket 370 supporting the latest Intel Celeron and
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Pentium 3 CPUs then we
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have a uh 3 SD RAM slot supporting a
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maximum of 1.5 gigs so that means you could load this baby up with three 512
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megabyte uh did I say dims because those were Sims back then uh my bad then we
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have a chipset heat sink along with 20
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pin power Advanced tech 20 pin power to
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deliver the best power power to your AGP video card and your 370 CPU okay also
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featured on this motherboard is two IDE
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channels uh maybe supporting raid probably not actually and then uh we
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have five PCI slots and Asher Pop Quiz
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do you know what these slots are indeed I do they are video card insert slots
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that's my wild guess right that was a good try but this is the video card slot
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dang yeah no these are Isa slots these are pretty ancient at this point then we
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have a floppy connector and let's see what Advanced High TE Connectivity oh
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USB check that out yo okay let's see
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what kind of high-tech connectivity we will find on the back okay so uh we
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first of all we've got support for a PS2 keyboard and mouse two whole USB ports
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on the back two serial ports so that'll be great if you're running like serial
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peripherals a par parallel port if you can actually dig up a parallel printer
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you could run that and then we have support for ac97 audio as well as a
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joystick Port so thank you for checking out our joint unboxing of the um oh this
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is terrific I love this of the soyo home of the Dragon Sy
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y7v ba 133 U look at the camera
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motherboard