Welcome to 2001 
Too bad these use DDR and not DDR2.
The GOAL3+ is basically a socket 754 Sempron CPU/mobo.
The Samuel (I think "Samual" is misspelled even on the PCChips site) is a VIA C3 800MHz chip. This is similar to the low end mini ITX "Eden" boards CPU-wise. It is Flex ATX, which is between micro ATX and mini ITX in size. This can make for a super budget board to get into mini computing, such as building your own NAS, router, etc. It can be used in any Flex ATX, micro ATX or regular ATX case, and uses regular ATX power supplies.
As for the CPU itself... I have no idea how they managed to call it a 2000+, because at the nominal 800MHz it was still much less performance than a Celeron 800MHz back when the C3 800 was released in 2001. I've owned quite a few C3 chips and still have a couple in my desk drawer (C3 866 Ezra), mobos all leaked caps and died though I still have a few of those as well. VIA claims that the 800MHz Samuel 2 is only 13W TDP. BTW, it is basically a socket 370 setup (w/o the socket) while the Samuel 3 (Ezra) is under 10W. The 800MHz Ezra core was featured in a video made by VIA showing it running Quake 3 Arena for hours on end... without a fan OR heatsink attached. So, everyone going "oooh, ahhh" over the VIA Nano running without a heatsink are just CPU n00bs in my book. :evil:
As cool as ice! (video link, right click and save to HDD)
Wikipedia list of C3 processors
Review of the C3 Ezra chip (Ezra was the Samuel 3, a die shrink of the Samuel 2)
Review of the PCChips combo
EDIT: For nostalgia sake I just dug out all my VIA processors and took a picture:
four Ezra chips
The one on the upper left all covered in white heatsink goop and with a very discolored heatspreader (passive cooling was rough on it) is a C3 933A on a Soyo VIA 694 chipset board (bulging caps, only POSTs sometimes). The one at the bottom is a VIA C3 866A in an original Shuttle SV24 using a VIA PLE133 chipset (I think, many bulging caps and no longer POSTs). The top right chip is a VIA C3 800A on a Shuttle VIA 694T chipset board (scratch over PCB traces, barely works at lowest FSB). The chip on the blue tray is a brand new VIA C3 800A sitting on an MSI VIA 266 chipset board with DDR and DDR2 support. Of course the board is very flakey and has tons of bulging caps. The rogue chip next to the new C3 is an Intel Celeron 366 - my last "unsold" one from back when I sold these "pretested" at 550MHz.
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