Dual CPU Via?
Dual CPU Via?
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...
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Re: Dual CPU Via?
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.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...
Just my .02
Billl
Re: Dual CPU Via?
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.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.
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.
2x533MHz@544MHz, 2.0V
640MB PC100 memory
Realtek RTL-8139 NIC
Maxtor 6Y080L0 80GB hdd
Debian Linux stable with 2.4.8 kernel
640MB PC100 memory
Realtek RTL-8139 NIC
Maxtor 6Y080L0 80GB hdd
Debian Linux stable with 2.4.8 kernel