SOYO's SY-P4S DRAGON Ultra Motherboard

Whatever happened to the good old days when motherboard manufacturers issue press releases to let us know that they had new products coming out? Lately, it seems like the best way to find out about new boards is to troll the companies' web sites. Well, that's my job, not yours so here's the latest discovery from SOYO's site. The new SY-P4S DRAGON Ultra motherboard is an Intel Socket-478 P4 Based SIS 645 ATX Motherboard with support for 400 MHz FSB, three 184-pin DDR SDRAM 2.5V DIMM sockets for up to 3GB RAM, six 32-bit Bus Mastering PCI slots (V2.2 compliant), one AGP Pro slot (support for 1X/2X/4X mode with 1.5v), an on-board CMI 8738 Audio chip to provide 6 channel sound, support for optical output & SPDIF output, two RS-232 serial ports (16550 UART compatible), one parallel printer port (SPP/EPP/ECP mode), one FDD port, IrDA/FIR ports with an optional cable for transceiver, 6 USB ports (2 rear, 4 pin header), four independent channels for eight IDE devices(two for IDE-RAID), two PCI bus mastering ATA E-IDE ports, on-board voltage monitors, CPU fan speed monitor, CPU temperature monitoring through a flexible thermal sensor, an embedded Hipoint IDE-RAID chip, and on board 10/100 Mbps Ethernet PHY controller.
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