Via C3 Processor

[DRJ1014]

http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp

What do you think?

 

[jasonlitka]

First, why did you post this in the AMD forum? Second, what do you mean, "What do you think?"? "What do you think?" about what? The C3 is a nice processor for low-end systems where the load will be light and the most important thing is quiet operation in a small package. It's nothing new.

 

[leukotriene]

It's a Winchip.

What else needs to be said?

It runs cool, and it runs dog slow in floating point intensive code. That's why VIA embeds a hardware MPEG2 decoding engine on the chipsets they package the EDEN/C3 processors with.

 

[Josh_B]

Originally posted by leukotriene
It's a Winchip.

What else needs to be said?

It runs cool, and it runs dog slow in floating point intensive code. That's why VIA embeds a hardware MPEG2 decoding engine on the chipsets they package the EDEN/C3 processors with.

True, but even so, I wouldn't cast such a negative light on it. As others have said, it is good for what it's designed to do.

 

[leukotriene]

As others have said, it is good for what it's designed to do.

It was designed to be cheap, run with little power and have sub-Celeron 600 level FP performance at >1GHz, and it succeeds brilliantly at the last two things.

Unfortunately, you can buy usually an Athlon 1800+ for less money, and it's an absolute performance monster by comparison.
You can also undervolt and underclock the AXP with the right motherboard, reducing power consumption down to passive cooling levels, while maintaining a huge performance advantage over the C3.

The C3/EDEN is more of an embedded processor for tiny form factor applications that uATX boards are too large for. You can browse the web, and you can play starcraft. You can also do those things with a PII.

I'd really consider buying a small form factor C3 notebook for the battery life and price, but they don't appear common in the 'States, and the Pentium M and Transmeta processors are too expensive

 

[CentronMe]

Originally posted by DRJ1014
http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp

What do you think?

What I think is you cannot read. First you start a
thread about the Athlon3200+ release and a review of it, little over a year to late here man. Then you post this crap.

Why

 

[digiram]

drj is funny

i bet he just wants to make us laugh

 

[CentronMe]

Originally posted by digiram
drj is funny

i bet he just wants to make us laugh

Dumb is more like it.


Let the thread drop, as it is a stupid thread just like the thread starter.

 

[DRJ1014]

all i wanted to know is wut u though. i wasnt on planning on getting it i just wanted to know wut you thought of it.

 

[tdg]

I think it's alright for what it is, a very low power consumption, cool running processor. With it you could make a cheap, silent computer, but it sucks for anything intensive.

 

[CIWS]

Originally posted by CentronMe
Dumb is more like it.


Let the thread drop, as it is a stupid thread just like the thread starter.

Then how about you just stop viewing the thread next time vs slamming the thread's author in a post. Maybe they don't know much about the VIA CPU and are simply asking to find out.

Originally posted by leukotriene
It runs cool, and it runs dog slow in floating point intensive code. That's why VIA embeds a hardware MPEG2 decoding engine on the chipsets they package the EDEN/C3 processors with.

What he said

 

[Black Morty Rackham]

Originally posted by leukotriene
It's a Winchip.

What else needs to be said?

It runs cool, and it runs dog slow in floating point intensive code. That's why VIA embeds a hardware MPEG2 decoding engine on the chipsets they package the EDEN/C3 processors with.

Wasn't their idea to take up the fallen RISK banner? Or was that Transmeta?

With a maximum design power of around 18 watts at 1.2GHz

I'd like to see a 90nm Motorola PPC. Sure they'd cost a fortune, but holy hell they'd be low-energy and absolutely rip the VIA to pieces when it comes to performance.