Dual CPU Via?

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:15 am

According to this page at Toms Hardware, VIA will be marketing a dual CPU ITX system in Q2. I personally wouldn't mind a very quiet dual CPU webserver...

davd_bob · Post by **davd_bob** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:59 pm

Listen to the power of it's silence.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:59 pm

service appliance.

Billl · Post by **Billl** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:51 am

purrkur wrote:According to this page at Toms Hardware, VIA will be marketing a dual CPU ITX system in Q2. I personally wouldn't mind a very quiet dual CPU webserver...

Well I hope you don't need much performance cause their chips suck! I got a Via C4 1.2 gig (runs at 800) and my old single processor 366 @ 550 will run rings around it.

Just my .02

Billl

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:04 am

Billl wrote:Well I hope you don't need much performance cause their chips suck! I got a Via C4 1.2 gig (runs at 800) and my old single processor 366 @ 550 will run rings around it.

Yeah, I know that. In fact, for desktop usage, a VIA chip running at 1 GHz has been said to have comparable performance to a 500MHz Celeron so you are right on the money.

Desktop usage is a lot more complicated and a lot harder on a CPU than server usage. For example, what makes the VIA chips suck is their floating point performance (calculations) which suck as bad as they did on the K6-2 processors. But when you don't need a powerful ALU (like in many applications running on servers) then these chips are quite allright.

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