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Emission said:This is the thing that dosnt suprise me about these small form factor solutions. They still charge you an arm and a leg for a piece of crap, easily replaceable with a down-clocked AMD or maybe Intel Celeron solution. A downclocked AMD DTR 3000+ looks attractive if your going for low power/high performance, im actually looking into it. Im losing intrest in big-bore systems simply because I dont see the need for a 3+ GHz music/video/web/im machine. Yeah, the current VIA's are nothing to drool over.
Based on my research they were the only manufacturer with low power consumption and a decent amount of expansion slots. I have a S754 Sempron , the Winchester 128KB D0, so if I can undervolt it and there's a mobo out there for cheap that'll provide at least 2 pci slots along with the usual back panel inputs and consume around 40+W at max load w/ it, or a 90nm cpu/mobo combo that can do this for ~$65, LMK. 40+W loaded with faster processing and 64 bit *nix would be sweet! As it stands VIA was the only manufacturer who offered something that met my needs and price. The D201GLY is ~$15-20 more everywhere I've looked, and doesn't have nearly enough in the way of expansion slots, which knocks it out of the picture even while being twice as fast. Everything else was even pricier, so the VIA combo was the clear choice.I just don't find Via all that tantalizing anymore. Between ridiculous delays and pathetic performance, Via has fallen behind. Now both Intel and AMD can produce more complex chips with larger caches that can have competitive power usage, thus derailing Via's "simple is better" approach for all but the absolute lowest-power applications.