That's a board so cute... but utterly pointless.

[momaka]

Re: That's a board so cute... but utterly pointless.

I challenge you to find an use for this thing.

I guess an MP3 jukebox. That VIA CPU should have enough power to decode MP3s, no?
Maybe it will also run Counter-Strike 1.5 with bots? (provided a PCI video card is used).
I don't know what else. Just shooting some ideas over here.

Those benchmarks don't look right.

Indeed.
A 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 slower than a 1.4 GHz Pentium 3? WTF is passmark smoking??? Try an older game (Half Life 2, for example) on a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 and then on a 1.4 GHz Pentium 3. The results won't even compare. And video decoding/encoding? The Pentium 4 is hands-down faster.
When I see that passmark page come up for a benchmark search, I always ignore it.

7 or so years ago, i sold one that had two slots of each. Two SDRAM, two DDR. It was a Socket A board. Funny thing about it was that it ran better and overclocked higher with SDRAM.

ECS K7S5A?
I got one too. Don't know if it works. It's overseas. Just got a bunch of Socket A CPUs last month, so when I get time next summer, I'll be trying it out .

[Uranium-235]

Re: That's a board so cute... but utterly pointless.

ahhh K7S5A. My first self build motherboard. Cheap ass board that performs very well

[c_hegge]

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^
I built one of my first PCs with one of them. It died after something like a year, and the replacement K7S5A didn't last much longer. I've had nothing but trouble with ECS since, so I never use/recommend them. They are the only brand I consider to be worse than ASUS.

[luke10050]

Re: That's a board so cute... but utterly pointless.

I challenge you to find an use for this thing

Low power web server, DNS + DHCP, VPN, Router, Wireless AP, might do Active Directory, Firewall, etc.

The selling point from what i remember of these processors is their low power usage, they are actually quite useful when you pay $0.30/KWH.

It should run ubuntu server of pfSense pretty well

the gpu is probably better than a ATi Rage XL too