VIA EPIA PX 10000 reviewed

Robert Hallock (Thrax) Slightly larger than a credit card, but she's x86 maties!

July 26, 2007 3:31 PM ET in News, ,

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mini-itx.com

Slightly larger than a credit card, the PX10000 is fully x86.

The lads at mini-itx.com put this neat little doodad through its paces. This is one of the first motherboards based on the picoITX form-factor, and despite its diminutive size, the PX 10k is nothing short of marvellous in my opinion!

It boasts 7.1 audio output, MPEG2/4 and WMV9 hardware acceleration, DDR2 and a 10/100 ethernet connection. It’s really quite astonishing how tiny this device is; even if you have no use for it in your own life, the technological prowess used to develop the device is amazing.

Take a look!

4 Comments:

  1. Kwitko
    26 Jul '07, 8:25 pm

    I've been itching to replace my current dual-processor web server at home with something smaller and more power efficient. This certainly fits the bill.

  2. Thrax
    26 Jul '07, 8:26 pm

    If it's just doing file-serving duties, the 10k is a great choice. It has SATA connectors, in addition to a CF slot. I could easily see it running a tiny linux distro very snappily.

  3. RWB
    27 Jul '07, 4:09 am

    OMG that's going in my broken Linksys router case! Totally threw me off when I saw the price was $10 though... but that's for the pre-order... DOH! How much can we expect it to cost?

    errr... I am looking at it further I don't see any expansion slots... guess I should start reading the review though.

  4. Kwitko
    27 Jul '07, 11:31 am

    My guess it will run around $300.

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