Despite being touted as fanless and most C7-based boards being equipped
only with heatsinks they get hot as hell. Right now I'm experimenting on a
board (custom form factor) built around VIA Eden 1.2 GHz, CX700 chipset,
with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE (1 GB RAM, 8 GB IDE SSD, networked, and an
external HDD over USB). The following make it undesirable:
1. the temperature when it's passively cooled,
2. frequent unexplained spontaneous reboots (botched ACPI? missed IRQs?),
3. low-quality (RTL-81xx family, in this case 8139, a.k.a 8100) NIC chip.
Lowering CPU frequency down to 400 MHz does not help, either.
I suggest getting an Atom-based board instead, if it makes sense for you.
P.S. As a last resort I'm trying to go without ACPI and see if the thing
will stay up for more than a week.
P.P.S. Various steppings of the C3 family, too, caused various headaches
(with Longhaul or VIA Padlock). Overall, VIA's track record in this field
is not remarkable.
--On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 11:34 -0700 Akshat Kumar
<aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
Looking to get the following motherboard:
Jetway VIA C7 1.5GHz CN700
It would work well to house 2 IDE and 1 SATA
drives. Has anyone tried Plan 9 on this, before
I commit $100 to it?
Thanks,
ak
