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Shooter308

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I used to build quite a few computers in the past with Soyo motherboards, but I noticed that they just kind of dropped off the grid with motherboard production the last few years.

Did Soyo get bought out or are they just not making motherboards any longer? I never had a problem with Soyo boards either, so I'm surprised to see them not making them now.
 
Their employees started getting their checks as mail in rebates.

You can figure out what happened next.
 
They largely got out of mobos although they still apparently sell them in China.
Mainly into home electronics these days.
 
I also dug Soyos, but they are down to LCDs and TVs now. 7VCA was my first mobo. Good board.
 
Never had one, but my friend got the cool-looking purple PCB dragon Soyo board back in the day, I thought it was slick as snot. Ran real nice and smooth for him.
 
Had a K7-VME motherboard, or at least I think that's what the model # was.

It was a Socket A motherboard, based on one of the VIA chipsets that had integrated video and sound. Surprisingly, it worked quite well, and exhibited excellent stability.

This was part of a big rebate, though, that I paid $49.99 for the motherboard, and that there was supposed to be a $50.00 rebate from Soyo.

Apparently, Soyo never made good on the rebate, and thousands of folks were screwed over by the Soyo rebate incident. Fortunately, MWAVE.COM, the place where I bought the board from, went above and beyond the call of duty, and issued my credit card a $50 credit, so at least I didn't get screwed.

This is also one of the reasons why MWAVE.COM is one of my favorite suppliers (them, and Newegg).
 
I live in China, and can tell you they are still actively producing budget motherboards here. They have a new line that is making an attempt to mirror Foxconn's efforts at catering to enthusiasts, but their website is still a disorganized hodge-podge. They seem to be a rudderless ship at the moment, but technically still 'in' it.
 
I had a soyo motherboard that still runs fine in a friend's computer. The MIR nonsense probably did them in. Huge rebates to get you to buy, but then they never came through.
 
they had several fine boards in a row starting with the 440bx sy and sb 6ba series boards. these allowed bios overclocking on p2 and p3 cpus when companies like asus were still using jumpers. then had several good amd socket a/slot a via chipset boards kt133a, kx133 and kt266/266a and kt333a. they had a decent board based on the amd 750 chipset, a little before amd quit designing there own chipsets which was a little before they started desgning there own chipsets again. then it all went downhill for them. but last year, soyos profits were 95% higher than the year before. i smell comeback.
 
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