Sunday, February 8, 2009

VIA C7 PC3500E Main board -- 1.8 GHz

Really concern about a main board, which it should be small, power efficiency, features and the especially low cost. After a long time of period I found C7 processor with most of the features that I want.












Highly efficient CoolStream architecture
90nm manufacturing technology
Compact VIA nanoBGA2 package (21mm x 21mm)
VIA V4 Bus @400MHz
VIA StepAhead™ Technology Suite
Efficiency enhanced 128KB full-speed exclusive L2 cache with 32-way associativity
MMX, SSE, SSE2 & SSE3 instruction sets
Full x86 OS & Software Application Compatibility
VIA PadLock Security Engine
IO/APIC Support
Memory Support up to 4GB of DDR2 667
Enhanced Digital Video Graphics
Multi-channel Audio (6.1)
Extended Connectivity
Advanced Power Management

I had some doubt about the 128KB L2 catch, but once I having my day today experience, I think I didn’t feel any efficiency dropdown from the catch.

Used 3dMax, Delphi7, CorelDraw, Adobe CS3, .Net2008

Operating System used: XP Media center version, Linux, win2000

Still I didn’t have to use any experience with a high end games.



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