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Via EPIA M10000

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arcas

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It seems there are two flavors of this mini-itx mainboard floating around: one based on the old Erza C3 core and one based on the new "Nehemiah" C3 core. Unfortunately, so far as I can tell from the two VIA press releases introducing the mainboards (Feb15...Erza core and Apr15...Nehemiah core), they both have the same model designation: EPIA M10000.

Is there any way to distinguish between these boards, short of contacting the reseller and verifying which CPU core they're based on?

 
old stock is ezra based and the new stock is nehemiah. i believe their is no difference between performance of these two. you would want to run wCPUid to identify the revision of the CPU. some vendors on ebay claim to have nehemiah core boards but i wouldn't sweat it--either way performance is going to be a dog. but hey, it plays DVDs and MP3s; what more do you need?
 
yodayoda, wrong there. Nehemiah has better performance in all areas (the biggest jump is in floating point math), and replaces 3DNow! with SSE instruction set.
 
Yeah, I believe Nehemiah is superior to the old Erza core. Nehemiah FP unit runs at full clock speed instead of half-speed. It's not in the same league as a P4 or Barton but it should be much better than the old C3.

Thanks for the link yodayoda. I'll take a look.
 
You may also want to look at the "Mini-ITX Thread" under "Small Form Factor, Notebooks & other Pre-Built/Barebones PCs" forum
There is lots of info there on Mini-ITX mobo and some review of the old core to the new core...

Edit:
I don't think there have started to sell mobo with the new core yet...
 
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