Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:12:24 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Richard Schilling <rschi@rsmba.biz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard Message-ID: <20030615141224.GD4880@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20030614152524.GC21487@foghorn.rsmba.biz> References: <20030610220919.41E1F5D04@ptavv.es.net> <200306121915.h5CJFGSL083703@apollo.backplane.com> <3EE8D5EB.5030308@sliderule.demon.co.uk> <200306122247.32026.wes@softweyr.com> <200306130555.h5D5td1j086033@apollo.backplane.com> <87isr9n8dw.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> <3EEB2BDA.3040705@gmx.de> <20030614145534.GA4880@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20030614152524.GC21487@foghorn.rsmba.biz>
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 08:25:24AM -0700, Richard Schilling wrote: > Thanks for the link. I checked out web page. I'm not familiar with > the 933 Mhz VIA C3 CPU, VIA CLE266 Chipset. Do you have any > information on that? The C3 is is not-particularly-high-performance i686-class CPU core. The only thing that's really special about it is that it uses relatively little power, compared to your average modern CPU from Intel or AMD. The 'Eden' variants are particularly good -- the 600MHz Eden on my EPIA-ME6000 board probably performs about as well as a 500MHz PIII -- more than enough for most tasks -- yet the whole board consumes a maximum of around 22W, under full load. Contrast that with the Athlon XP1800+ in my main workstation, that probably gets through about 50W when it's idle, never mind what the rest of the board is using :-( More info on the EPIA boards on Matt Dillon's site: http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/epia/review.html Full specs at: http://www.viapsd.com/ I don't know much about the CLE266. It includes VIA's 'CastleRock' graphics hardware and some DVD decoding support. Almost all the onboard hardware of the EPIA boards is supported by FreeBSD, including the Firewire and USB ports (the latter only at USB 1.1 speeds for the moment). The CastleRock graphics have some early support in XFree86, but not the MPEG decoder. See another one of Matt's pages for the full scoop on getting it to work with XFree86 on FreeBSD: http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/ You wouldn't want to play 3D games on these boards, or run buildworld on them too often, but they're more than powerful enough for most other jobs. I don't know if anyone has tried this, but I would expect the faster (933MHz and 1GHz) boards at least to have enough grunt to handle DVD playback even without the MPEG hardware. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon
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