One look at the spec sheet and right away the amount of front side bus speeds the V3 allows jumps out and attacks your mental sanity.

We're talking 27 different FSB selections here, which in simple terms makes the V3 the board with the most FSB options on the market, period. That includes Abit's hot BE6 mainboard, and also includes their new dual Socket370 BP6 board, which is the part that held the "FSB option champion" title until the SY-6BA+ III arrived in our office.

Is Soyo truly the new King of CPU overclocking?

More on this later.

Other features that the V3 offers are based around the competent 440BX core logic AGPset that drives the board, including the standard UDMA 33 controller and AGP 2X support.

Soyo has really thrown everything into the SY6BA+ III's design (yes, even the kitchen sink) as the board is equipped with not only four DIMM slots that can propel a maximum of 1GB of SDRAM, but also five PCI expansion slots for peripheral add-ons.

One gripe we have with not only Soyo, but with most current mainboard designers comes in the form of the ATX power connector placement. Most boards we've seen lately are sandwiching the connector for the power cable in-between the parallel/com port double stack and the Slot-1 connector, which is one helluva tight fit unless you've got the hands of Austin Power's Mini-Me.

That lone gripe aside, the SY6BA+ III is very well laid out and incorporates everything you'd expect a top-tier mainboard to include.