Considering a PC with a VIA processor...

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I'm considering building a system with one of those gOS dev kit motherboards with a C7-D 1.5ghz processor. I'd likely put 2gb of ram in it and a 300-500gb SATA harddrive. My question is how well do you think it would run the latest Ubuntu or Windows XP?

Vista is not an option. Even if the system was capable of running Vista, I refuse to run any version of Windows beyond XP.
 
I have XP running fine on a 667Mhz P3, so I imagine it would run fine on the VIA 1.5Ghz.
 
Why no Little Valley or Little Valley 2 mobo instead? You'd get a much better dollar/performance ratio.
 
Via processors are pretty weak performers, most especially due to their half speed fpu's. My opinion is to drop an extra $20-$40 on an Intel mini-itx solution.
 
Try one the (most likely cheaper) Intel "Little Valley" (Essential Series) boards instead. The Via boards have more than enough horsepower and nice power characteristics, but the driver support in Linux would have to improve significantly to be merely atrocious.

Here's a few links:
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D201GLY/index.htm
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D201GLY2/index.htm
ftp://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/31854602.pdf
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/d201gly
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/d201gly2
http://www.mini-box.de/catalog/il/844
http://www.minitechnet.de/intel_d201gly_1.html
http://www.buy.com/prod/d201gly2-mo...atx-cache-533mhz-fsb/q/loc/101/205887511.html
 
Ok, well after reading your responses and seeing the absolutely terrible performance of the Via processor I'm deciding against it.

Thanks everyone.
 
CrimandEvil said:
Why no Little Valley or Little Valley 2 mobo instead? You'd get a much better dollar/performance ratio.
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Heh, I totally forgot about those. We had a couple in the lab a few months ago, but I didn't get to play with them. :( I'd definately recommend that over an VIA solution.
 
acascianelli said:
I'm considering building a system with one of those gOS dev kit motherboards with a C7-D 1.5ghz processor. I'd likely put 2gb of ram in it and a 300-500gb SATA harddrive. My question is how well do you think it would run the latest Ubuntu or Windows XP?

Vista is not an option. Even if the system was capable of running Vista, I refuse to run any version of Windows beyond XP.
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One, as you already know, it has a C7 processor, so its one of via's better systems. (I'm using a pair of 800mhz c3 based thin clients fine).

Two, the gOS combos Walmart sell run the gOS os, which is just a modded version of the last Unbuntu.
 
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