Hello! I have searched the Internet and not been able to find out if people with this mobo can play AVI and DVD movies without problems. Have read alot about problems with VIA mobos and AVI/DVD movies, but not found anything at all about this version. So is there someone here that have this mobo that can answer more questions later on? and most important, can I play AVI/DVD movies with a Via EPIA-V10000 mobo? BR Lelle
Depends on the processor, if its Nemiah cored (Nem something anyway) and it looks like its a 1ghz model, it should play it fine. Make sure you use plenty (512 at least) of ram in it though.
It is not Nehemiah, if I buy the Nehemiah one I will have to buy some DDR-RAM.. I was hoping that I could take my spare RAM at home and put into the mobo, and therefore V10000 is the most powerfoul. And as I dont have any work right now its not fun to buy Nehemiah instead of the old one as the price will almost double with the RAM. /Lelle
I'd suggest upgrading the whole system myself, but I hate all this low perf per clock speed malarky (even if heat disipation is tiny). Anyway here's some info ... http://www.silentpcreview.com/article77-page2.html http://www.hexus.co.uk/review.php?review=373 http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD01NTkmdXJsX3BhZ2U9Nw==
The Nehemiah is seriously poorly powered even at full fpu, i'd be very wary of the Erza cored half-speed fpu. DVD will probably be ok because the chipset will have mpeg2 acceleration, but forget AVI cause it needs fpu.
The Epia board I have is great! it's the MII12000, but feels faster than that in use! DVD's/ MPEG2 is perfect, DIVX plays fine, although full resolution vids can be choppy.
The 1.2ghz MII12000 still only offers perf similar to a Celeron 600mhz. As said hw MPEG2 decoding helps it but it is marginal for anything remotely intensive.
I know what you mean but it trails in real world apps and games too, still I guess VIA CPUs are not designed for gaming and stuff but for cool and quiet running in SFF (which they do very well). Some useful info ... http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD01NTkmdXJsX3BhZ2U9Nw== http://www.sfftech.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=534 http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/mii12000/
i had an epia 10000 nemeniah (sp) running with Windows XP no visual extras and nothing extra running. 512Mb DDR Ram It didn't cope with AVI's at all. Even Mpegs aren't great. You'd be better off trying to get hold of a cheap PIII parts if you want to build a movie machine. I managed to get a PIII 933 + Mobo and Geforce 2 32Mb Grafx for less than 80 quid, makes it cheaper than the Epia anyways!
No they sure don't. And besides, people keep getting the notion in their head that they're designed to compete with high-end procs... they're designed to compete with that tiny amount of space that's dying for another computer.
