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Soyo K7V Dragon Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Tuesday, October 02, 2001

Connectivity

Unlike the Freeway boards that I recently reviewed Soyo kept with the standard ATX layout with 3 audio plugs. These connections just give you a Line in, Line out and Mic. To get the subwoofer and rear outputs you will need to use the provided audio connector seen below.

Here is the Audio Connector Card as supplied by Soyo. On this card we have inputs and outputs for S/PDIF and Optical digital audio, along with analog plugs for center and rear speaker outputs. This card connects to the motherboard via a thin ribbon cable that is not pictured.