Problem with Via Ezra 900Mhz

onelegdis · Post by **onelegdis** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 3:36 am

Congratulations, you appear to be the first BP6 user to try one of the VIA chips. There is no Bios support for these chips, so it’s amazing you got it to run at all!

Stand by for loads of questions!

DD this needs more investigation, this chip is no P3 but it does run very cold!

Blueneko · Post by **Blueneko** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 8:54 am

I never knew VIA made cpu's, Because I never see anyone selling em.
comp show, vender, stores, nothing!
what gives?
Is this another IBM kind of processor that is just another counterpart like amd?
or what?

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 9:03 am

VIA bought Cyrix IIRC, and now they're making half-decent, low-power chips - the Ezra.

I'm looking into building hardware DVD and MP3 boxes using these and no active cooling (=quiet).

onelegdis · Post by **onelegdis** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 11:41 am

Thats right InactiveX, you can get away with a passive heatsink. Its a shame Via didn't build SMP into the core of these chips.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sat Nov 23, 2002 12:04 pm

This looks like a nice small-form-factor integrated MoBo:

http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_min ... boardId=21