Via Processor

[Shane]

Hi,

Ive been seeing alot of computers for sale recently in a magazine over here in the uk and most of them have Via C3 Processors.

Ive never seen one of these and just wanted to know what there like?

Dont worry Im not gonna buy one

Heres a pic of a older one...

http://www.infosatellite.com/images/articlepics/via_c3_933mhz_twins.jpg

 

[4W4K3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_C3

C7 seems to be newer. But I don't think they ever hit the big time in personal computing. Used in cars...interesting.

 

[SirKenin]

Via bought out Cyrix for a meager $167M. Cyrix was junk. If that tells you anything.

 

[Shane]

Lol there charging like £450 for this desktop system in the magazine i saw today which has the C7 processor i think.

I would rather get a Intel Celeron

 

[SirKenin]

Via has one benefit. It runs extremely cool (ie efficient). It can be used in extremely tight places without a CPU fan, making an excellent choice for a completely silent multimedia system. The name of them escapes me at the moment, but they are available for sale really cheap. I had a client that had one.

 

[palmmann]

sirkenin- thinking mini itx?

 

[SirKenin]

mini itx is the form factor. Epia makes the motherboard... The name of the computer starts with S, and now it's driving me nuts.

 

[Burgerbob]

sirkenin- thinking mini itx?

That and car computers.

 

[StrangleHold]

mini itx is the form factor. Epia makes the motherboard... The name of the computer starts with S, and now it's driving me nuts.

Think VIA had a processor with a core named (Samuel)

 

[4W4K3]

Yup. They made all of these I think;

Joshua
Samuel
Samuel 2
Ezra / Ezra-T
Nehemiah
Eden-N
Antaur-M
1GigaPro
Esther
CoreFusion