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Via Now Shipping Dual-Processor Mini-ITX Board

Posted by timothy on from the smallosity dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Via is now shipping its first dual-processor mini-ITX board. The DP-310 features two 1GHz processors, gigabit Ethernet, support for SATA drives, and a media-processing graphics chipset. It targets high-density applications -- according to Via, a 42-U rack with 168 processors would draw about 2.5 kilowatts, or about as much power as two hair dryers." This also looks like the basis for a nice car computer. Also on the small-computing front, an anonymous reader submits "General Micro, meanwhile, last week released what it calls the world's fastest mini-ITX board, powered by a Pentium M clocked up to 2.3GHz. "

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  1. Again with the PR by DarthVain · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OK people before you all jump on this bandwagon, do some research and check out some reviews.... The ITX using a mobile P4 is interesting... Dual ITX VIA to me is not. VIA owns what was CRIX remember those? No? You know why, because they sucked, they were low power, but ultra low profermance. They come up with the ITX platform so that they could pimp off these horrible processors. From what I have read they are not good for much of anything except single task as an mp3 player. Now with dual it MAY be able to play a DVD without dying... but probably not as the onboard grafix are weak to say the least. Don't get me wrong, ITX as a technology is pretty interesting, but lack of performance is a major problem. Eveyone knows the pros and cons of dual processors (probably here anyway), so the likelihood of anything taking advantage of it is unlikey. In all it will probably let you play a mp3 AND do someting else rather than just single tasking. Perhaps if they spent more time on their processors and less time on their boards they might get somewhere... who knows maybe they are... but anyway in all likelihood a VIA ITX DUAL will still be underpowered for all but the simplest applications. A desktop replacement it is not. Guess will have to just wait for the reviews... Though in the past, production, availability, lack of reviews and information has been a problem. It would not surprise me if this is a paper launch, and it will remain etheral for months or forever.

    Anyway my 2 cents

    and no I didn't RTFA :)