Dear all, Does anyone knnow if the board is already on sale?
Regards, Joop. Randall Craig wrote: > > * Joe Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020208 09:41]: > > Justin Cormack wrote: > > > > >>Does anyone know of a US distributor for this platform (Vias site has no > > >>specific information about Eden distributors and it appears most are > > >>either motherboard or C3 distributors, and not Eden yet)? > > >> > > >>And while on the subject, how about a vendor of an industrial chassis > > >>for it? > > >> > > > > > > We have a custom chasis building operation. > > > > > > Got a link, and/or any pricing info? > > > > > > >>Joop Boonen wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >>>http://www.rolotech.com/reviews/CPU/VIA/Eden/edenp1_review.asp > > >>> > > > > > > It seems a bit of an odd machine - same performance as a PII233MMX except > > > for 3D now. Only use I can think of is a TV set top box, with a digital > > > tv card in the PCI slot. You can buy much smaller PII233MMX with no > > > cooling problems in PC104, or Geodes in 3.5 inch, in lots of configurations. > > > Unless it is much cheaper (under $100). If it was 4 times as fast I could > > > find a use for it. > > > > It also would be an excellent box for thin clients. The pc104 and > sbc-embedded boards are too expensive for thin clients. All that you > need is memmory (32-64MB) chassis and fanless power supply. With this > your costs should be below $100 for everything. > > The most important thing for a thin client is to have good > graphics. CPU power and memory bandwidth are not important. One > review stated the the video chipset was the trident cyberblade, which > in my opinion was the chip from hell -- that was trying it a year and > a half ago. I thought that the northbridge chipset for this > motherboard used the S3 savage series. Am I misstaken?
