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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. Cool mini-ITX stuff... by ozziegt · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to see what cool stuff people are doing with mini-ITX, check out http://www.mini-itx.com/. Mini-ITX is a form factor where the board is 6.7"x6.7"

  2. They want how much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    $1800 each for the P620. $850 each for "OEM" quantities. Too rich for my blood.

  3. Re:Again with the PR by geekschmoe · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    I had a via mini-ITX board 2 years ago. It was 800mhz. I put a tv tuner card in the box and captured cable tv to divx in real time. That took about 35-40% CPU. That means I was able to watch other divx movies (via the Composite TV-OUT) at the same time it was encoding. Oh, and mp3blaster worked great too!

    and no I didn't RTFA :)

    or anything else for that matter, eh?

  4. Watt the ..? by Mr2cents · · Score: 3, Informative

    A bicycle light would consume about 2Watts (rude guess).
    A typical light bulb is 60 Watts.
    An electric heater is 2000 Watts typical.
    And I just went downstairs to check, a hairdryer is 1500 Watts (my mother is a hairdresser, so it's a "professional" version).

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  5. Re:Car computer? by DataPath · · Score: 3, Informative

    The is the second mini-itx board that VIA has released based on the CN400 chipset. This chipset is supposed to have SIGNIFICANTLY improved performance, largely stemming from greatly improved memory bandwidth.

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  6. Wrong pictures? by threephaseboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those pictures don't match what's on via's site:

    EPIA DP

    Note the orientation of the processors, and the lack of PS2 ports on the (official?) pictures.

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