SOYO Announces VIA KT333 Chipset Motherboard

SOYO Announces VIA KT333 Chipset Motherboard for AMD
Socket-A CPUs

-- SY-KT333 DRAGON Ultra Features Digital Sound, USB
2.0, 10/100 Ethernet, Embedded RAID Chip, Combination Compact Flash/Smart Media
Reader/Writer

FREMONT, CA (March 15, 2002) – SOYO Computer, Inc. today
announced the SY-KT333 DRAGON Ultra -- SOYO’s fastest motherboard for AMD
Socket-A based processors with its VIA KT333/8233A chipset, DDR333 memory
support, USB 2.0 on board, and many advanced and easily customized features.

The SY-KT333 flies past previous AMD Socket-A based
boards with its VIA KT333 chipset, which now fully supports DDR memory modules
at 333MHz. The enhanced chipset solves bottlenecks created by increasing
processor speeds, and accelerates the memory bandwidth by 20% to 2.7 gigabits
per second (GB/sec) compared to 2.1 GB/sec with existing 266MHz memory.

In addition to extra memory bandwidth from the VIA
chipset, the SY-KT333

DRAGON Ultra also boosts performance with ATA-133
(133Mbytes/sec) support for hard drives, and USB 2.0 on board.

The SY-KT333 is easily expandable with three 184-pin DDR
SDRAM 2.5V DIMM

sockets, which support up to 3GB of DDR333 memory. The
board has five 32-bit Bus Mastering PCI slots (V2.2 compliant), and one
Universal AGP Pro slot, which supports 1x/2x/4x mode.

SOYO has integrated several on-board features to add
performance and value. The SY-KT333 features an on board CMI 8738 audio chip to
provide 6-channel digital audio. The sound chip eliminates the need for a sound

card, and also supports optical output & SPDIF output.
SPDIF allows digital audio signals to be transferred from one device to another
without having to convert them first to an analog. Maintaining the integrity of
the digital signal prevents signal degradation when it is converted to analog.

On board 10/100 Mbps Ethernet is a standard feature of
the SY-KT333 with

its Realtek 8100B controller. SOYO has also embedded a
HiPoint IDE-RAID chip to provide ATA133 IDE RAID at Level 0 (data striping),
Level 1 (disk mirroring) or Levels 0+1.

The SY-KT333 features an on board Ultra I/O chip, which
supports two RS-232 serial ports (16550 UART compatible); one parallel printer
port (SPP/EPP/ECP mode); one FDD port (Supports 3 mode, 1.2/1.44/2.88 MB FDD;

an IrDA (infrared) port with optional cable for
transceiver, and four USB 2.0 ports (2 rear, 2 front). The board also features
two PCI bus mastering ATA133 E-IDE ports, and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 IDE ports,
which support four independent channels to accommodate eight IDE devices,
including two for RAID.

SOYO has integrated many enhanced overclocking, system
management, and security features into the SY-KT333 DRAGON Ultra motherboard.
Users can

customize their boards to specific applications by
adjusting the CPU FSB, core voltage & multiplier, AGP Pro voltage through the
Award PCI BIOS setup. The FSB can be set in 1Mhz increments through the BIOS
setup.

Support is also included for on-board hardware
monitoring, and includes SOYO’s Hardware Health Utility to streamline PC system
management. Among

the many hardware monitoring functions are CPU fan speed
and temperature

monitoring through a thermal sensor; WOL (Wake On LAN)
function to simplify network management; software power-off controls and remote
and/or alarm power-on control.

SOYO bundles its 8-in-1 Software CD Pack with each
board. It includes Norton AntiVirus 2002, Norton Ghost, Adobe Active Share and
Acrobat Reader, Vcom AutoSave, WinDVD, eWalla text & voice messaging software,
and Imagemore photographic collection.

SOYO’s “BayOne” series of sigma box peripherals is
available as an option. The featured peripheral for the SY-KT333 includes two
front USB

2.0 ports, and a combination Compact Flash Card/Smart
Media Reader/Writer, which allows users to easily transfer data from digital
cameras, PDAs, MP3 Players, and other mobile electronics devices that use Smart
Media. The BayOne peripheral occupies a standard 3.5-inch drive bay.

The MSRP of the SY-KT333 DRAGON Ultra is $178 (U.S.) or
$198 with the optional BayOne sigma box. Volume discounts are available. The
board will be available in April.

ABOUT SOYO COMPUTER, INC.

SOYO Computer, Inc was founded in 1985, with worldwide
headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, and branch offices in Germany, Hong Kong, Japan,
and Korea. The company sells its products through a select group of
distributors, resellers, system integrators, and VARs worldwide.