Hi all,
Sorry for being off-topic, but I think there are others interested.
I want to make a very quiet PC without paying a lot for the newest
cases that allow that. I thought about buying a VIA C3 and no fan.
Does anyone here have anything to say about this? Such as:
Is it stable?
Is it fast? I
Quoth Yedidyah Bar-David:
Is it stable?
It is.
Is it fast? I know it's not fast compared to the latest P4/Athlons,
It is reasonably fast. What do you want it for?
but does it have a good price/performance ratio?
For my purpose, yes. It is my firewall.
Does it have any compatibility problems?
Is it fast? I know it's not fast compared to the latest P4/Athlons,
It is reasonably fast. What do you want it for?
For multimedia stuff it's totally slow (and don't try GNOME on it - it got
some serious problems with GTK and GTK-2. I didn't say it - Alan Cox
mentioned it on redhat's
Quoth Yedidyah Bar-David:
For a regular desktop. I know this doesn't say much - I have a 300Mhz
Celeron desktop which is quite good :-)
I bought for my sister a Duron 1200, which is too noisy. Will a C3
be considerably slower (30% is not considered considerable)?
C3 has a very small cache,
