CHIP FIRM VIA said it has introduced the Epia V-Series mini-ITX motherboard, a tiny item at 17 by 17 centimeters. The firm claims it's the smallest native X86 motherboard, and it uses the Apollo PLE133 chipset.
Via is selling it with an embedded "Eden" processor core for fanless systems, or alternatively with a C3 E series CPU. The board includes 2D/3D graphics, AC97 audio, 10/100 Ethernet and TV out which supports standards TVs.
The board has one PCI slot, supports up to 1GB SDRAM, and, said Via, is compatible with other mini-ATX chassis as well as cases supporting FlexATX and MicroATX motherboards. Operating systems supported include Linux, Windows XP and 9X, embedded Windows and Windows CE, the firm said.
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Via is selling it with an embedded "Eden" processor core for fanless systems, or alternatively with a C3 E series CPU. The board includes 2D/3D graphics, AC97 audio, 10/100 Ethernet and TV out which supports standards TVs.
The board has one PCI slot, supports up to 1GB SDRAM, and, said Via, is compatible with other mini-ATX chassis as well as cases supporting FlexATX and MicroATX motherboards. Operating systems supported include Linux, Windows XP and 9X, embedded Windows and Windows CE, the firm said.
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But here is the complete specification proposed by MSI:
GPU
0.13u Manufacturing Process
125 Million Transistors ( 2X GeForce 4)
256-Bit GPU
Flip-Chip BGA Package with copper interconnects
8 Pixel Per Clock (8 Pixel Pipelines)
1 TMU Per Pipe (16 Textures per unit)
> 500MHz Core Clock (will probably vary depending on model)
350 Million Triangles per Second - 3x The Geometry Performance of a GF4 Ti
Memory
Memory with >1GHz Data Rate (500MHz DDR)
128-Bit "DDRII" Type
128MB & 256MB Memory Capacity
3rd. Generation Lightspeed Memory Architecture
48GB/s Effective bandwidth through the use of compression techniques. (16GB/s actual @ 500MHz)
Other
Full DX9 Compliance (and more)
64-Bit Floating-Point Color
128-Bit Floating-Point Color
2 x 400MHz Internal RAMDACs
Supports for DX 9.0 Vertex Shader 2.0+
Supports for DX 9.0 Pixel Shader 2.0+
Unified Driver Architecture
DVD&HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920X1080i resolutions
nView 2.0 - Multi-Display Technology Digital Vibrance Control 3.0
Video Mixing Reader(VMR) support
NVIDIAR Cg Compiler support
Cinematic Programmability for Amazing Visual Effects
Conditional Execution for both Pixel and Vertex
Creative Labs claims to have an exclusive retail arrangement for Europe, but MSI is going for the system builder market
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