Overclocking
with the P4S Dragon Ultra
I’m happy to announce
that overclocking, as with the P4ISR is another dream come true with the P4S
Dragon Ultra. In addition to the capability of adjusting the front side bus
in 1MHz selections, the board features Vcore adjustments from 1.100V up to
1.850V in .025 intervals making it somewhat a great solution to get the maximum
performance out of your Pentium 4.
The P4S Bundle
As already mentioned earlier
in the review, Soyo included an external audio module to fully take advantage
of the C-Media 6ch audio solution. The module features a center/bass input
and rear left/right outputs, optical and spdif for the ins and outs.
Another interesting and
at the same time handy addition to the P4S bundle is the external USB header
featuring a total of four extra USB 2.0 ports. The module fits into a floppy
drive bay and can also be used in a standard cd-rom bay using the included
adapter.
Three ATA/100/133 cables
are thoughtfully included, as well as one FDD and two additional cables for
the exterior USB header. The board comes with a detailed manual covering everything
from the features to a detailed troubleshooting section. A Drivers CD is enclosed
along with another CD featuring 8 handy applications.
Norton Antivirus 2001:
The popular and most used anti virus application.
Norton Ghost 2002: Lets
you perform complete backups of your hard drive.
Adobe Active Share: A digital imaging application.
AutoSave: Automatic backup
software
InterVideo Win DVD: A
simple to use DVD Player
eWalla: A 3D animated
cyber-character that appears on your screen and delivers message via text
and voice.
IMAGEMORE: Image/clipart
collection
Acrobat Reader: View the
popular PDF files.
Testing System
| CPU(s) |
Intel
Pentium 4 2GHz (Willamete)
|
| Heatsink
& Fan |
Retail
|
| Motherboard(s) |
FIC VC15 (845DDR)
DFI NB72 (845SDRAM)
Intel Reference 850 Board
SOLTEK VIA P4X266
SOYO P4S Dragon Ultra (SIS645)
|
| Memory |
256MB RDRAM PC800 SAMSUNG
256MB DDR SDRAM PC2200 MUSHKIN
256MB SDRAM PC133 MUSHKIN
256MB DDR SDRAM PC2700 (DDR333) KINGMAX
|
| Hard
Drive(s) |
IBM
15.3GB 75GXP 7200 RPM
|
|
CD-ROM
|
LG
52X
|
| Sound
Card |
On
board
|
| Video
Card |
GeForce
3 TI500
|
| Operating
System |
Windows
2000 SP2
|
| |
Benchmarking
Applications
|
| OpenGL |
Quake
III Arena v1.29
|
| Other |
Sisoft Sandra 2001
Sysmark 2001
|
