VIA's New Nehemiah M10000 Processor Reviewed

Joseph Wharton writes "Mini-ITX.com has a review of VIA's new Nehemiah M10000 EPIA-M motherboard and processor. Some of the new features include a full-speed floating-point unit (finally!), SSE instructions, 64KB of full-speed L2 cache, and (get this) a hardware-based random number generator. Also, there's IO/APIC support in these new procs, potentially paving the way for dual EPIA boards."

Comments

Makes for a great jukebox

[microbob]

I used the 800mhz Eden to put together a great Jukebox. The digital coax out to my receiver works like a charm.

Having all my music on-line and ready to be played on any PC in the house is pretty nice.

Re:Makes for a great jukebox

[buffer-overflowed]

That's their target market, and boy are these things great for uses like that. 17cm x 17cm footprint and decent media performance.

IIRC a lot of "next-gen" DVD players will be using these mainboards, and they've started putting things like hardware mpeg decoding/etc. into them. They're ideal for digital jukebox/emulator/dvd player/pvr combo systems.

Re:Benchmarks suxs

[Organic_Info]

errr beause the two are completly different uses.

The mini-itx stuff is all about power consumption or lack thereof and low noise solutions.

Why do you think I don't compare my shitty little commuter car to a bloody ferrari.

Very insightful first post.

Re:Benchmarks suxs

[Organic_Info]

I didn't say it wouldn't be useful in fact for the most part it won't. I'm making a pretty good guess here that the a P4 would cream the Nehemiah M10000 at all the usual benchmarks. My point is you would benchmark against processors in a similar/related class Durons, Celerons, Nat Semi Geodes (if they are still around), etc. There is little point in comparing a truck to a car when asking which will transport more cargo or which is more cost effective for the job. You may however compare a van with a truck both are used for more similar tasks.