VIA Processors

[nukes]

Anyone have any experience with these?
I quite fancy building a little mini-itx system, and want to know how these chips compare to durons/celerons. I'm thinking of buying that one with all the crypto stuff on chip, and sticking OpenBSD on it. Any thoughts?

[wju425]

What's bad about via cpus are that there's no DDR anywhere. 66, 100, 133 fsb are all they got. Probably likewise to the mems.

\o/ Billy

[lost-and-found]

don't these CPUs run without fans though? I guess for a small multimedia system not having DDR wouldn't be a big problem...or am i wrong?

[wju425]

I heard they don't use fans and they're just as fast as the socket 7s. In fact, it's a socket 370.

\o/ Billy

[lost-and-found]

isn't the latest VIA processor about 1GHz? Amazing, no fans at 1GHz...I think the 1.2GHz T-bird I burned without a HS lasted 3 seconds before emiting smoke.....

[butch81385]

i think when you get up to the 1 ghz they do have a tiny fan on them

do you think that the 1 ghz, and a decent vid card in a pci slot would be good enough for a lan rig?

[wju425]

I think a 1 gig cpu with a 133 fsb can do a decent job. My bad for not keeping up with via. Last I heard was a 733.

\o/ Billy

[XxCowOfChaosxX]

noo...via cpus are NOT for gaming at ALL!!! they were made for internet browsing, not intense gaming

[John Prophet]

uhh, the benchmarks on these thigns are sad, lol. maybe the 1.2g or whatever is like a 600 celly