From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 05:48:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDE216A4DE for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 05:48:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from cydem.org (S0106000103ce4c9c.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.27.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE87A43D46 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 05:48:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from soralx.cydem.org (unknown [192.168.0.249]) by cydem.org (Postfix/FreeBSD) with ESMTP id A7BE490749 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:48:50 -0700 (PDT) From: soralx@cydem.org To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:48:47 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <3692C07B-CCCC-4756-9B33-6DA724481FF2@ketralnis.com> <200609042230.51646.soralx@cydem.org> <15F475AB-1304-4B1B-9B71-B874D237173B@ketralnis.com> In-Reply-To: <15F475AB-1304-4B1B-9B71-B874D237173B@ketralnis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609052248.48214.soralx@cydem.org> Subject: Re: Quiet computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:48:54 -0000 > > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/mini_itx/vt_310dp/ > Ah, I must have missed that. Now I'm all excited :) I wouldn't get too excited just now, but wait 'till VIA release something similar, only with their newest, bestest, better-than-ever CPU cores :) Check out the 'Processors' section of their site. > Would you happen to know of anyone shipping systems with these boards? > I can build one but it would be nice to pay someone else to do it > instead :) You mean, you have a job for fellow BSD'ers? ;) No, I don't know who builds complete systems, but seems like this board is available on an auction (eBay). And it is expensive (however, considering it's got everything integrated, + some nice, original CPU features which are quite useful for a server -- such as true RNG, and hw crypto engine that can run at 25 Gbit/s (!) max -- not to bad, IMO). If you want to run the chips at > ~1GHz, you either need to put a bigger radiator (much bigger! 20W is no joke {2GHz VIA C7}) or keep the fan. The Eden chips, which are on the dual-core board, dissipate 7.5W max, so you also may need bigger heatsink, or run them underclocked, or avoid 100% load (idle heat dissipation is only 500mW -- unbelievable!). I have not tested any VIA processors myself yet, and I'm waiting for someone to try them out with FBSD and post results :p I also heard rumors (can't remember on which maillist) that CPU's RNG and crypto engine work with FreeBSD rather well... [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2