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Any interest in this CPU??

tradiationally VIA chips have sucked at folding... maybe this one is different? low-power + fast = great for folding....


Keep on Folding!! For the [H]orde!!

 
OSUguy98 said:
tradiationally VIA chips have sucked at folding... maybe this one is different? low-power + fast = great for folding....


Keep on Folding!! For the [H]orde!!

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i thought VIA chips just traditionally sucked..?
 
at a second look, its peak power consumption is 20 watts, and it has only 30nm die...it should OC like a mofo.

but it's a Via. so what i hear about them, is that they suck. any older/more experienced people want to tell me how it is?
 
They were in competition with intel and amd along ago.
Like early pentium days. I had a cyrix 166+ which ran at 133mhz.
The floating point bit ass bigtime. It was substantially cheaper than the pentiums, and would run office apps, but the pentiums really spanked it in gaming.

Via bought cyrix and put out the c3 in competition with the celeron/p3.
It also sucked bigtime. Low performance for the clock speed.

Now they've pretty much aimed at the embedded and small form factor markets, since they really don't have the performance for full blown desktops.
 
I am a sucker for underdogs.....partially why I still buy Transmeta.....or used too :rolleyes:

AMD also by way of the Geode ended up with part of the Cyrix legacy(or whatever you call it). Kind of why the non K7 based Geodes suck and blow at once.
 
I keep wanting to try out some via stuff. or some other of those super small 3.5" SB-CPU units... nice and quiet (hsf-less) etc etc low electrical usage, speed isnt there, but they would still be ideal for the other reasons
 
yes, traditionally, VIA, IDT, Centaur, whatever name they used have been at the low end of both the price and performance spectrum, and the pentium equivalent Cyrixs, etc had really sucky FPU's. I'm hoping the SSE2 and 3 will improve that. If it's cheap enough, I definitely want to get my hands on one.
 
Personally,
I could see doing a car PC with it. m-ITX itty-bitty mobo style.
Maybe an HTPC that didn't have alot of extra apps and had some hardware DVD/MPG/MP3 encoder/decoders - kinda a luke warm TIVO.
Or maybe the super cheap notebooks that everyone is talking about.

But folding - I don't know. that family of CPU's has sucked for so long that I doubt that junior here is going to break the tradition.

Just my $0.02

 
I agree with rodsfree. It'll be interesting to see some benches of it. FPU performance wise that is. We'll just have to wait and see.


 
I presently own a Via eden mini-itx mobo, I have tried to fold using this motherboard. After examination after four days of folding, I had not even have completed one frame.

If I left it on for a year I might get one wu out of it. So really via processors= suck at folding.
 
These things have always traditionally sucked pretty bad at anything other than light duty, but if they could perform halfway decently, they could be worth having a small farm of. Their biggest advantage is form factor and power consumption, you could probably power 4 of em off one psu.

 
p[H]ant0m said:
Their biggest advantage is form factor and power consumption, you could probably power 4 of em off one psu.
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I agree about the form factor.

But you can already power 4 mobos with 478 pin celerons or pentium -m's with 1 500-600 watt PSU.

Average draw is less than 125watts with this setup. You just can't have any drives attached to them. :(

That's actually what I'm going to do for my little stack... If I can get the connector cheaper than I can get the individual PSU's.

It'll be interesting to see how they perform.

 
If you can run 4 478's off 1 5-600 watt PS, imagine how many C7's you could run in one b0x3n... Folding speed or not, they have SSE2 & 3. Should fold pretty fast.

/me drools @ 20 cpu's in one boxen.
 
screw that, i'm drooling at those 8-way opteron iwill servers theyre showing off at computex :eek:

just think about it... you could power a WHOLE server off only a few power supply's :rolleyes:

 
Spectre said:
I wouldn't do it....image the resistance added from all those connectors.

Besides could just get this:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4064513967.html :D
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If I had a $100,000.00 I wouldn't need to patch together a bare nekkid farm now would I. :rolleyes:

Spectre!!!! - now I have to buy a new keyboard - drool just doesn't play well with electronics. :eek: :D

But seriously - I'm planning on soldering and building a daisey chain - each computer should only see 1 additional connector pair of increased resistance + the increased wire length (really doesn't matter - because the length isn't that great) . Plus, it's worth the try just for the experiment / experience. Plus if it works out... I'll be able to run my farm off 1 nice stable high end PSU instead of a bunch of cheap POS PSUs.


 
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