C7 2Ghz and cx700 availability ?

[Soulkeeper]

can't seem to find anything but the 1.5
also what would be the chances of getting one with a socketed cpu if any ?
C7 esther cpu
CX700 chipset

even if only in a laptop has anyone found such a configuration ?
integrated graphics is fine
i've been itching to test out a nice via setup for a few years now outta mostly curiousity

 

[Maximilian]

Curiosity killed the cat.

Im interested in this too, makes a nice difference from AMD/Intel even though it may not be a positive difference.

 

[mancunian]

Note the comparison against a Pentium M, 'Best Performance Per Watt'.

Now if those two last words hadn't been present, that would have been an impressive benchmark.

However, it seems the situation remains the same after god knows how many years. And the situation is this:

VIA = Cyrix

Cyrix = Sh!t

 

[Soulkeeper]

there's more to the chip than meets the eye
it has military grade hardware encyrption much more powerfull than anything intel or amd have right now
not to mention the throttling happens over 1 clock as apposed to 15,000 or whatever on the intel chips

 

[Soulkeeper]

maybe if they give it a die shrink to .65 and boost the L2 up to atleast 512KB along with a 800fsb and like 3ghz it would be a impressive performance-wise.....

 

[Bateluer]

No one will ever mistake the Via C7 for a performance CPU, but it does have its uses. Low power, silent running machines, SFF boxes, and the like.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

For sure, those things can run passive easily which makes them ideal for HTPCs, It would be expensive but a C7 plus a heatpipe card could eaqual complete internal silence! Especially if you had a Zalman passive case Now all you would need in some of that solid state storage and youd be teh uber geek

 

[Furen]

Nah, it would still suck. The Padlock thing is interesting but it's done through a DSP-esque thing, not natively within x86, so you need programs specifically built for that (such as VIA's full volume encryption). Give it 3GHz and 512KB of cache and you still have a single-issue, in-order, half-clock FPU, anemic CPU.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i thought it had a fullspeed FPU