VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboard + case?

[William Park]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:52:16AM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> > EPIA (Fanless)
> > VIA C3 600 Mhz CPU
> > AGP VGA w/ TV out
> > onboard sound
> > Ethernet card
> > 1 PCI, 2 Dimm, 2 USB, 2 ATA100IDE
> > $149
> 
> Unless you have mimimal requirements, don't get this one.  There's no
> XFree86 DRI/DRM support nor MPEG2 acceleration so 3D graphics and
> video streaming perform badly.
> 
> > V10000A (Bulk)
> > VIA C3 1Ghz CPU
> > onboard VGA
> > onboard Sound
> > Ethernet
> > 2 Dimm, 1 PCI, 2 USB, 2 ATA100 IDE, 1 FDD
> > $139
> 
> Same here I think, although it will be slightly better with the faster
> CPU.
> 
> The M series boards don't have these limitations.

Hmm, from what I've read, original EPIA has PLE133 chipset and EPIA-M
has CLE266 chipset which does hardware MPEG-2 decoding.  Though, I don't
know whether it has to be "turned on" to kick in.

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