VIA's EPIA-5000 ALL in one motherboard reivew
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 21, 2002 at 2:31:49 AM
Mike at SilentPCReview has done a review of the cpu on a motherboard EPIA platform. Yep, this one is for silent running PCs, don't look for a power house though.
The EPIA-5000 integrated motherboard is a bold new product well suited for its role as an inexpensive, quiet, small computing appliance. The potential applications for this little machine are limited only by the imagination. With a PCI MPEG decoder card, it could easily become a multimedia entertainment box. In a Mini-IPX box with external power supply, it has the capacity to fit almost anywhere, going quietly where no desktop PC has gone before. It is the only real challenge to Transmeta's Crusoe processor. In our view, the fact that VIA's offering is almost a complete system on a single board makes the EPIA-5000 and the EDEN platform undeniably attractive for system integrators, OEMs - for just about anyone wishing to build a small, quiet PC.
The EPIA-5000 integrated motherboard is a bold new product well suited for its role as an inexpensive, quiet, small computing appliance. The potential applications for this little machine are limited only by the imagination. With a PCI MPEG decoder card, it could easily become a multimedia entertainment box. In a Mini-IPX box with external power supply, it has the capacity to fit almost anywhere, going quietly where no desktop PC has gone before. It is the only real challenge to Transmeta's Crusoe processor. In our view, the fact that VIA's offering is almost a complete system on a single board makes the EPIA-5000 and the EDEN platform undeniably attractive for system integrators, OEMs - for just about anyone wishing to build a small, quiet PC.