A while back i found this video with a VIA QuadCore L4700E on the VIA EPIA M920-12Q running Battlefield 3 at high settings with a Radeon HD 6850. I was wondering if you guys have had any experience with these embedded boards, as from what I've seen, they look fairly capable as servers and budget gaming Mini-ITX machines. Here is the video I mentioned: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z70UgT80gd0
The guy that made that also made a video of playing BF3 on the AMD Athlon 5350 Socket AM1 processor.
I have wondered this too. I wonder if the intel 8 core one they just reviewed would work with like a gtx760 on there
Thats actually kind of why I thought back to this. Seeing that with a 750 TI would be great.
it only has an 8x pcie slot...and some ports/io might get in the way...
it would work...but it isn't optimized for such use and it is slower doing certain things...
maybe it'll be okay with amd mantle?
Aren't VIA the ones suspected of planting a backdoor for the NSA in their hardware random number generator? Along with Intel?
But we still use Intel.
But SOME PEOPLE still use Intel.
Fixed.
I literately was wondering the same thing last night after watching the newest inbox.exe. So I decided to do some digging. Here is what I found as to be the best of what is currently available from via:
http://www.viaembedded.com/en/products/boards/1893/1/EPIA-M920.html
http://www.viaembedded.com/en/products/boards/1810/1/EPIA-M910.html
These are the only quad core offerings I could find from VIA. After reading the above, you'll notice one has an optional 16GB of DDR3 Ram with a short PCIe X4 port while the other offers only 8GB of DDR3 Ram and what the is described as a PCIe x4 port but what looks to me to be last gen PCI.
I could see these being good for a home server implementation or a media box for your TV. I would have to do some more research to really say if these are competitively priced for use as a budget gaming rig.After
Afterthought: Just found this after posting: http://www.viaembedded.com/en/products/boards/1550/1/EPIA-M900.html
Supports PCIe x16
http://www.amazon.com/VIA-Embedded-EPIA-M900-12LQ-Mini-ITX-QuadCore/dp/B00914Y55W
http://www.e-itx.com/m900-12lq.html
Fair enough :)
Seriously, a PC powered by a 6870 can play BF3 on high?
I'm sure my dish wash could play BF3 on high with a 6870 if only it had a PCIe x8. I have an old C2D E6750 coupled up with a Radeon 6870. I don't have BF3 installed but I'm sure it would play! I used to play it on my G73JH with its i7-720QM @ 1.6Ghz and a Radeon Mobility 5870 (Radeon 5770 @ 700Mhz)
Back when I bought my Samsung NC10 (Atom 230), I really wish I had forked out the extra for the NC20 (VIA Nano U2250).
You simple can't get VIA powered system these days without paying over the odds. Perhaps the US is different but here in the UK they just aren't worth it =(
They used to be amazing for encryption but both AMD and Intel have added those abilities to their instruction sets. Far more likely to be compile to take advantage of AMD's or Intel's instructions compared to VIA's.
Don't get me wrong! I'd love to see more completion on the x86 platform but VIA just isn't competitive within the consumer market.
If I were to get an embedded system I'd LOVE to get hold of the Banana Pi. A quad core Raspberry Pi alternative with SATA and 1Gbit ethernet... seeing how I use my Raspberry Pi as a PXE server.
The addition of a x16 PCIe slot is great but can it really compete with an AM1 platform?
the EPIA M900-12LQ is interesting...
btw, that is a x16 slot wired as an x8 slot...though that doesn't matter as most gpus don't use that much bandwidth...