Headlines - VIA's Pico-ITX board gets smaller, and slower

[HEXUS]

VIA has taken its PX10000G Pico-ITX board, removed the fan, dropped the CPU down in speed, and announced the PX5000EG.

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[vinnyT]

Finally, a board worthy of my new gaming rig:/

[this_is_gav]

That processor looks massive (obviously the die aside) until you notice the VGA and RJ45 ports. I want a phone with this or an Atom in it.

[chrestomanci]

That processor looks massive (obviously the die aside) until you notice the VGA and RJ45 ports. I want a phone with this or an Atom in it.

I think the package you are looking at is the chipset (northbridge/southbridge) in one silicon chip. The CPU is actually the smaller package on the left. In normal operation both would share the same heatsink which would cover most of the board.

[Agent]

Thats pretty impressive.
If they were a reasonable price I could think of quite a few projects these could be used for