Right on. I'm looking at the Nemeniah MII's that just came out, but your
statements confirm my latest thoughts that the Via mobo will be more of a
plaything, to test out its capabilities and the feasibility of it as a media
PC... I'm leaning toward the SS51G or an XPC system (either with a P4) as a
system which I *know* can handle it.
Thanks Mr. O!
Ben
PS - also curious about the on-board crypto functions of the latest via
chipsets; I've heard they have linux support for that. Finally: a solid
built-in /dev/random ?? I was tired of training my webcam on vapor from
dry ice, clouds, fountains, and other local sources of quasi-entropy. = )
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:32:44 -0800 (PST)
Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| The Nehemiah M10000 has been reported to handle decoding quite
| well especially with mplayer. I haven't had a whole lot of time
| to play with mine. On the other hand, the Shuttle SS51G is well
| below $200 now so building a slightly more powerful system is
| going cost you probably not more than another $100.
| Shuttle advantage: more flexible component choice and growth
| capability.
| Via Mini-ITX: Lower power consumption, ability to integrate a
| tiny box that makes quite a bit less noise.
|
| Brought to you by someone who has both ;)
|
| Mr O.
|
|
|
| --- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Ben Barrett wrote:
|
| > > 3. How do you (subjectively) weigh the benefits of a
| > mini-itx system for a
| > > home entertainment PC, versus a mini-P4? Obviously, the P4
| > sucks more power
| > > and can have far more processing power -- and can also be
| > made nearly as
| > > quiet. The mobo/cpu combo's I'm looking at cost about the
| > same... I'm just
| > > looking for the variety of people's opinions here, offer
| > whatever you care
| > > to.
| >
| > Video comes in many formats. I doubt a VIA CPU can handle
| > realtime
| > decompression of most of those formats. And future codecs
| > will be
| > more compute intensive. If you're building a single-purpose
| > box that
| > only uses MPEG compression, and you can get the hardware MPEG
| > decoder
| > to fly, the VIA boards might be suitable.
|
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