Re: Advice or experience with VIA epia h/w?

[James Earl <jamesd.earl@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:13:02 -0800, Dan Dulay <daniel.dulay@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in replacing my system, and I've been looking at getting
> a system based on a VIA epia motherboard. I'm curious if anyone could
> share some advice or any good or bad experience with this hardware.
> 
> I am looking at PD motherboard with 2 interfaces. Does anyone know if
> these motherboards have CPUs that support AES acceleration? I am also
> wondering if I should wait for the CPUs that support RSA?
> 
> For the newest motherboard and chipset, does OpenBSD support SATA?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> 

I use a couple EPIA M10000's.  One as a desktop computer running GNOME
2.8, and the other running as a web server.  Most significant thing
that I could point out is that they are very slow compared to today's
standards.  Look carefully at your processing requirements.

The cpu fans on them are noisy, running at around 6000+ RPM.  I added
a Zalman Fanmate 1 which worked excellent at silencing the cpu fan.

I had bad experiences using Mini-box.com psu's on my boards when
connected to LCD monitors.  I encountered some sort of rf
interference.  That was a bad experience.  (Ya, umm... so if anyone
needs an 80W, or 120W mini-box.com fanless psu in Canada, let me
know!).

James