EPIA 2 and EPM board on VIA CLE266: more answers — fewer questions
The long-awaited VIA Eden — a quiet and humble home/office PC (in Russian) review excited numerous replies from our readers.
Of course, the theme of an inexpensive and quiet (!) multimedia-enabled home PC is now important as never. However, to the pleasure of those who already know about ambiguous marks of VIA EPIA-4000 and EPIA-5000 systems for multimedia operations, MPEG4 and DVD in particular: they are good enough for an office. For those willing to build their own quiet multimedia PC, in the near future VIA Technologies will start to sell new-generation EPIA 2 solutions based on VIA CLE266 chipset and EPM Socket 370 motherboard.
EPIA 2 brief specifications:
- VIA C3 800 MHz CPU and higher, EBGA package, 133 MHz FSB
- VIA CLE266 chipset, integrated AGP 8È engine equivalent
- DDR266 SDRAM memory
- 1 PCI expansion slot
- ATA133 support (2xIDE, 1xFDD!)
- VIA 6-channel audio
- Integrated IEEE 1394 controller
- 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
- Integrated 10/100 LAN
- Integrated TV-Out
- Mini ITX form-factor (170x170mm)
- Expected availability — October
Let´s mention some details about VIA CLE266 Northbridge. The flow-chart:
Feel the difference — all MPEG operations will be performed by an integrated video module instead of CPU! I guess this solves all MPEG4 and DVD slow-performance problems. Though let´s wait for its test results.
In addition — specifications of EPM motherboard, that can be used with any CPU of this family:
- 100/133 MHz FSB VIA C3 CPU support (Socket 370)
- VIA CLE266 chipset, integrated AGP 8È engine equivalent
- DDR266 SDRAM memory
- 3 PCI slots, CNR slot
- ATA133 support (2xIDE, 1xFDD)
- Integrated 6-channel audio
- Integrated IEEE 1394 controller
- 4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
- Integrated 10/100 LAN
- Micro ATX form-factor
- Expected availability — October
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