VIA C3 processor

Jonesthegas

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Has anyone built a HTPC around one of these? The C3 is a low power (and therefore low heat) socket 370 CPU from VIA.

What I would like to know is would a Zalman cooler with the fan off provide enough cooling? It would then, with a fanless GPU cooler and a quiet PSU, be the start of a very quiet HTPC.

Also, is a CPU running at 900MHz enough for a HTPC?

Martin
 
I am also interested in this, tiny cases with just the sockets you need for HCPCs. Look cool.
 
I tried a 700Mhz one out a while ago and it ran like a dog I'm afraid. You could probably just run an HTPC on it (with HW accel) but don't expect to do much extra image processing with it. When I get the time I was going to build a totally silent hi-fi machine with my chip and an old zalman fan as you suggest.

John
 
I had thought of using the 933 MHz model in a VIA Apollo 133T motherboard with lots of RAM. Along with this a Holo3D card and a Radeon 9500 128Pro, hoping these components would do all the processing and therefore I would not require a fast CPU. The OS would be XP Pro.

How does this sound? A slightly bizarre alternative would be to use 2 of them in a dual processor board with 2 zalman coolers. How does that sound?:confused:

Martin
 
Using the H3D that sounds just fine, its only using Dscaler that adds requirement for extra processing power.
 
Does anyone know if Dscaler supports dual CPUs?

Martin
 

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