Sneak Preview of VIA's next-gen mini-ITX mobo

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 27, 2004 @07:36AM from the its-so-adorable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "VIA will preview its next-generation mini-ITX board for the consumer electronics market at next week's Computex 2004 in Taipei. The EPIA SP features a new graphics and memory controller hub (GMCH) supporting faster front-side bus (FSB), memory, and southbridge interconnect speeds. It also features a C3 processor clocked at 1.3GHz, integrated PadLock Hardware Security Suite, and MPEG-4 acceleration. Oh, and like the current top-end MII 12000 VIA board, the whole board probably draws under 20watts running flat out."

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are c3's on this board fast enough for regular use by mrgreenfur · 2004-05-27 09:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

I've always heard that these processor's are slow as balls. does this board make them fast enough to build a desktop system around (instead of say, a cheap athlon?)? Would my parents notice a performance hit if all they do is surf, email, and write docs in word?

other than the random flash-heavy website, why shouldn't they use one of these?

any benchmarks handy?