[Nottingham] Cheapie Via C3 replacement?

[Rory Holland]

What about an Acer Aspire Revo?
It's about £230 it's an Intel Atom net-top and it can pump out HD graphics
smoothly
Looks beautiful as well
Here's a link to a decent review:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/desktops/253134/acer-aspire-revo-r3600

2009/12/22 Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>

> Martin wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Any suggestions for...
> >
> >
> > I have a very old Via C3 mini-itx board...
>
> Well a search around has been a bit of a disappointment.
>
> Looks like it's about a £100 for putting something together using a C7
> or Atom based system. Going for a min-spec AMD system is cheaper and
> more powerful but also more power hungry.
>
> The VIA Nano systems look nice but not at the silly prices... And why
> are SBCs so expensive?...
>
> Almost tempting to go for a Linux netbook at just over £100 even though
> that seems to be quite a waste just for the sake of getting USB2 on my
> present via C3 system!
>
>
> Also, can DDR2-800 be run at 533MHz? Or will the SPD reported timings
> for the 800MHz operation completely confuse the BIOS?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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