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VIA's New Nehemiah M10000 Processor Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the low-power-madness dept.

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."

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  1. Makes for a great jukebox by microbob · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Makes for a great jukebox by buffer-overflowed · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

      --
      The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."