How fast is VIA VIA EPIA M10000 Mini-ITX Mainboard [MP3CAR-0045]

**husalah5150** · 03-21-2006, 09:55 AM

Ok i been reading around and someone said the the cpu is on the mother board already so how fast is a VIA VIA EPIA M10000 Mini-ITX Mainboard [MP3CAR-0045] and how come they dont say in the store? if anyone knows

**RedGTiVR6** · 03-21-2006, 09:58 AM

VIA chips aren't very fast at all, but in all reality, how much power do you REALLY need in a car?

from what I understand the VIA chips are a little more than half of their equal speed in pentium...

and IIRC, they list it at 1 GHz...and there are other places to look for specs than MP3car.com/store

**husalah5150** · 03-21-2006, 10:04 AM

I see. Im trynna fiqure out whats a good speed for using gps while listening to music and it not affect the gps screen. Also looking for it to load quick in winamp from track to track. Oh yea and movies (DVDs,Xvid,Divx and VCDs)

thanks, quick reply

**icecore** · 03-21-2006, 10:16 AM

Gooooood enough, it will work just fine with a M10000.

**RedGTiVR6** · 03-21-2006, 10:17 AM

i ran this board a while back as a first board. i was running gps, winamp, xm pcr, dvd, etc.

could it have been faster?

sure

was it slow enough to bother me?

not really

**-zip-** · 03-21-2006, 10:25 AM

If you can afford it look into the SP 1300, will give you a little more horsepower for flash, voice recognition, better video decoder, faster memory

**theheel** · 03-24-2006, 04:34 AM

if i were u, id get a athlon mobile... for slightly more power consumption they pack more bang for the buck.

For a fraction of hte price u would pay for a mini-itx board you could get a lot better amd mobile athlon setup.

this is comming from a person who used a MII12000 for a couple of years just because it was the popular thing to do at the time (mini-itx) and i regretted every moment of it. It got bogged down running video, and gps(igmod w/ iguidance) in the background. You would have to shut down the gps and then watch videos, which gets cumbersome at times

the only reason to go for a mini-itx (imho) would be if you were had to do a very small install

now that i ranted.. ill answer your question

the M10000 is roughly about the same proccessing power as a normal 700-800 mhz processor. i read somewhere a while back while i was researching a few years ago that the equivalent via chipsets in the mini-itx were about 200-300mhz slower than the equivalent normal chips.

**Splash-X** · 03-25-2006, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by theheel

if i were u, id get a athlon mobile...

The Turion Mobile chips (AMD 64 BIT Socket 754) use less power at only 35w. They pack more punch for the power draw and can handel anything you throw at them. Combo that with a Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF Socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard and you'll have one excellent system.